News from February 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today applauded the expansion of the Family 2 Family Health Information Centers (F2F HICs) to serve Indian tribes, which was included in the budget agreement passed by Congress last week.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued a statement ahead of a vote in the House of Representatives on the ADA Education and Reform Act of 2017 (H.R. 620). Senator Murray strongly reiterated her stated opposition to the bill which would undermine important protections for people with disabilities.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on news that officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) closely coordinated with an identified hate group on policies designed to prevent Planned Parenthood from serving Medicaid patients.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today asking a series of questions surrounding how the FCC reviewed and considered the record 24 million public comments in its proceedings to repeal net neutrality. The letter was signed by all 24 Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Odis Levi Booher, 28, of Artesia, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 120 months of imprisonment for his conviction on federal firearms and drug trafficking charges. Booher will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Blackstone man was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for his role in an investment fraud scheme that caused more than $10 million in losses to over 50 investors.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Field preparations have begun for the installation of two interim surface barriers in the SX Tank Farm at EM’s Hanford Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Blackstone man was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for his role in an investment fraud scheme that caused more than $10 million in losses to over 50 investors.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- Reclamation's March forecast of the April through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn Basin is as follows...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Tommy Ramirez, 29, of the Dominican Republic and Ramon Clavel, 55, of Haiti, were arrested Monday on a criminal complaint charging them with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. Ramirez and Clavel made their initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller and were detained pending further proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former IT employee for the Canadian Pacific Railway was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for causing intentional damage to critical portions of Canadian Pacific’s computer network.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Chelsea Bomber Ahmad Khan Rahimi Sentenced to Life in Prison for Executing September 2016 Bombing and Attempted Bombing in New York City.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today requesting answers following troubling press reports that a contract was awarded to a consulting company owned by Merlynn Carson, the daughter-in-law of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson, without undergoing a competitive bidding process.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two Laredo men have been arrested for conspiracy to violate interstate communications by demanding money prior to releasing two hostages, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Mingo County woman was sentenced today to six years in federal prison, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release, for a sex trafficking crime involving a minor, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Misty Dawn Baisden, 40, of Delbarton, previously pled guilty to conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a minor. Baisden was also ordered to register as a sex offender.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: The opioid crisis is one of the country’s deadliest epidemics, with overdoses killing 115 Americans every day, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Five defendants pled guilty in unrelated cases to methamphetamine trafficking charges in the Southern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Four Maryland men have been indicted in connection with a conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering and murder in aid of racketeering.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Odis Levi Booher, 28, of Artesia, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 120 months of imprisonment for his conviction on federal firearms and drug trafficking charges. Booher will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Thomas Hamet, age 38, of Elkhart, Indiana, was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
