News from August 2018
By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: Amarillo, T.X. - The Bureau of Land Management today announced that $130 million generated from the 2017 sale and auction of crude helium from the Federal Helium Reserve is being transferred to the U.S. Treasury. The Federal Helium Reserve is a resource owned by the American people and managed by the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: N-Ethylpentylone Mailed from China to Residence in Queens, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Erick Pizarro, 37, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charges carry mandatory minimum of five years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following statements on trade-related announcements by the Trump Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Aug. 27, 2018 - Jacob Michael Goethe, 26, of Columbia, Tennessee, was charged in a criminal complaint on Friday with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and possession and distribution of heroin, after he purchased a 9mm handgun from an undercover officer, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN), and Senate HELP Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that another defendant indicted for his role in a major, multi-state heroin and fentanyl distribution network pled guilty today to a federal drug conspiracy charge. Lonnie Berry II, 43, of Huntington, entered his guilty plea to the indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal jury has convicted a 37-year-old Spring resident of distribution, receipt and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. The jury deliberated for less than three hours before convicting Mark Adair following a two-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: Krystle R. Sands, 33, of Harrisburg, Illinois, was sentenced today to 156 months in federal prison for methamphetamine offenses, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Steven D. Weinhoeft announced. Sands previously pled guilty to a two-count indictment charging her with conspiracy...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following the publication of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Inspector General (IG) report on Chairman Ajit Pai’s relationship with Sinclair Broadcasting...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: An individual who had a pending agreement to purchase a Miami-based licensed towing company (“the Towing Company") was sentenced to prison after previously pleading to participating in a conspiracy to pay bribes in order to obtain a contract with the City of Opa Locka.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After opening an investigation last year into the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS), Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha Blackburn...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN), and Senate HELP Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, sent a letter today to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, requesting that he make Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s record public so that Senators and working families can fully understand his anti-worker, anti-union views.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today urging the Commission to get to the bottom of allegations that Sinclair Broadcast Group lied to the FCC in the company’s failed attempt to acquire Tribune Media Company.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the announcement that the U.S. and Mexico reached a preliminary agreement to revise NAFTA...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox today announced the appointment of three new Assistant United States Attorneys: Ryan Raybould, assigned to the Dallas Criminal Division; Sarah Delaney, assigned to the Dallas Civil Division; and Robert Boudreau, assigned to the Fort Worth Criminal Division.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After opening an investigation last year into the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS), Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha Blackburn...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following the publication of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Inspector General (IG) report on Chairman Ajit Pai’s relationship with Sinclair Broadcasting...
