News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencings of W. Jeffery Taylor, 57, Scott A. Nelson, 60, and Jeffery Longtain, 59, for their roles in the fraud scheme perpetrated against Starkey Laboratories, Inc. (Starkey) and its principal owner William F. Austin. Taylor was sentenced...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the House passed a year-end tax package that includes tax relief for communities hit by natural disasters, permanent solutions to two temporary tax policies, retirement and savings provisions, relief from multiple Obamacare taxes, bipartisan IRS reform, and a few minor time-sensitive technical corrections to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) today issued final authorizations under the Marine Mammal Protection Act to incidentally, but not intentionally, “take" marine mammals during Naval training and testing in the Pacific. This is the third in a series of five-year incidental take regulations...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Mexican national wanted on homicide charges in his home country was removed from the U.S. Tuesday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today released a report titled “Nassar and Beyond: A Review of the Olympic Community’s Efforts to Protect Athletes from Sexual Abuse," which summarizes the committee’s findings after concluding its year-long investigation into sexual abuse within the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) and the 48 National Governing Bodies (NGB).
By EPA Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement after President Donald J. Trump signed the Farm Bill into law.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 767 the Stop, Observe, Ask and Respond (SOAR) to Health and Wellness Act of 2018, sending the legislation to the president desk to become law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Gregory Sydnor, 30, of Falmouth, Kentucky, was sentenced today to 360 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge David L. Bunning, for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. Sydnor was also sentenced to 10 years of supervised release, to be served after completion of his prison term.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today released a report titled “Nassar and Beyond: A Review of the Olympic Community’s Efforts to Protect Athletes from Sexual Abuse," which summarizes the committee’s findings after concluding its year-long investigation into sexual abuse within the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) and the 48 National Governing Bodies (NGB).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - Georgetta Lester Kenny and Greg Lester, two members of a Southern West Virginia family, were sentenced to prison by Senior United States District Judge David A. Faber, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. After a five day trial earlier this year, a federal jury found them...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the filing of a complaint charging DARRELL JONES with possessing a firearm subsequent to having been convicted of a felony. JONES was taken into federal custody today, presented before United States Magistrate Judge Lisa M. Smith, and ordered detained.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today released a report titled “Nassar and Beyond: A Review of the Olympic Community’s Efforts to Protect Athletes from Sexual Abuse," which summarizes the committee’s findings after concluding its year-long investigation into sexual abuse within the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) and the 48 National Governing Bodies (NGB).
By DOE Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Government is announcing that a group of Chinese cyber actors, known publicly as APT 10, is carrying out a campaign of cyber-enabled theft targeting global managed service providers, cloud service providers, and their clients. APT 10 is operating on behalf of the Chinese ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: A 27-year-old man was arrested in Los Angeles today on a criminal complaint charging him with wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. KEENAN A. GRACEY, formerly of Newcastle, Washington, defrauded Seattle-area investors and others out of millions of dollars by pretending to sell them stock that GRACEY did not own and had no right to sell. GRACEY will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement after President Donald J. Trump signed the Farm Bill into law.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Bureau of Land Management released an Environmental Assessment (EA) today that analyzes the potential effects of renewing hardrock mineral leases, which include updated stipulations to protect natural resources, in the Superior National Forest.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A New Jersey firefighter and a Puerto Rican man were convicted by a federal jury in Worcester yesterday in connection with a heroin conspiracy.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: This time of year brings out the best in people as we find meaningful ways to support loved ones and serve our communities. It’s this commitment to service and helping others that makes the holiday season so special, and it reminds me of how the men and women at the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) approach their work throughout the year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Tiffany Cook, a former Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) officer, pleaded guilty to being paid by a prison inmate to smuggle methamphetamine and marijuana into Hays State Prison located in Trion, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Justice Department Seeks to Denaturalize Illinois Man Who Allegedly Concealed Service in Military Unit that Perpetrated Srebrenica Massacre.
