News from February 2018
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Next Thursday, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) will deliver keynote remarks at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as part of a forum examining solutions to combat the opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Former Police Officer Sentenced for Attempting to Support ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two men have been arrested on charges of scheming to avoid the payment of federal excise taxes on duty-free cigarettes that should have been sent abroad, but instead were diverted to local retail outlets.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Stairs and Facilities Removed Due to Erosion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jerome C. Lewis, 51, of Washington, DC, was sentenced today to 32 years in prison on charges of first-degree murder with aggravating circumstances, second-degree murder, and first-degree cruelty to children in a house fire that led to the death of a four-year-old child, Samauri Michelle Jenkins.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Next Tuesday, the Subcommittee on Aviation will hold a hearing to examine the state of aviation safety in the United States. The Subcommittee will hear testimony from federal agencies, including the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General (DOT IG), as well as experts from the aviation industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The DEA and our law enforcement partners announced today an exceptional enforcement action against a local doctor and pain clinic owner in an effort to help reverse the horrible effects produced by the diversion and abuse of pharmaceutical drugs.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), today announced that due to changes in the House calendar the Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018 hearing entitled, “Update on the Restoration of Puerto Rico’s Electric Infrastructure," has been postponed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Miguel Pacheco-Lopez (35), an undocumented alien from Guatemala, to more than seven months in federal prison for sending money to Guatemala to help pay smugglers to bring an unaccompanied minor to the United States. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 21, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Child and Her Relatives Were Tenants in Defendant’s Home.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Feb. 21, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted Kenneth Brian Fischer, age 39, of Westminster, Maryland yesterday for using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Next Wednesday, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) will join Axios’s Mike Allen at Connecting the Future for a discussion on technology, the future of transportation, and the SELF DRIVE Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: United States Files False Claims Act Complaint Against Compounding Pharmacy, Private Equity Firm, and Two Pharmacy Executives Alleging Payment of Kickbacks.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney will lead a trade mission to Guatemala Feb. 26-March 2, accompanied by a delegation of agribusiness and state government leaders seeking to grow U.S. agricultural exports to Central America’s Northern Triangle of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and law enforcement partners announced today the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history. The cases involve more than two hundred and fifty defendants from around the globe who victimized more than a million Americans, most of whom were elderly. The cases...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), today announced that due to changes in the House calendar the Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018 hearing entitled, “Update on the Restoration of Puerto Rico’s Electric Infrastructure," has been postponed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: A Mexican man who illegally returned to the United States was sentenced Feb. 22, 2018, to almost three months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: A Mexican man who illegally returned to the United States was sentenced Feb. 22, 2018, to four months in federal prison.
