News from February 2018
By DOE Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Savannah River Site (SRS) is taking an innovative approach to ensure employees understand their role in recognizing and responding to abnormal conditions.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), and Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (VA-03) released the following joint statement today in response to the Trump administration’s release of a proposed rule that would allow health insurance companies to offer short-term plans that do not comply with Affordable Care Act (ACA) consumer protection standards...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Democratic leaders sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt today demanding answers on outrageous reports of Pruitt’s luxury travel at taxpayer expense. According to multiple press reports, Pruitt has repeatedly traveled in first-class at taxpayer...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Jonathan Kyle Lanier (24, Leesburg) to 13 years and 5 months in federal prison for carjacking, conspiracy to commit carjacking, brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. A federal jury found him guilty on Nov. 15, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States District Judge William H. Steele sentenced Eric Davis, 39, of Monroeville, Alabama, to 108 months imprisonment for coercion and enticement of a minor. As part of the sentence, the judge ordered that...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (VA-03) released the following joint statement today in response to the Trump Administration’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Adam Daniel Young (27, Sarasota) with one count of receiving and two counts of possessing child pornography. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in federal prison on each count.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - Three members of the notorious MS-13 gang were sentenced Feb. 15 following an investigation and subsequent arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York working jointly with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A second defendant has been convicted for robbing the Prosperity Bank in Yoakum, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone National Park calls on photographers to share their spectacular Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem winter photos at the 9th Annual Winter Photo Festival that will be held Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, at the West Yellowstone Visitor Information Center at 7 p.m.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: Horseshoe Bend National Military Park will host the 204th Anniversary of the Battle of the Horseshoe on Saturday, March 24, 2018. This annual event recreates traditional Creek Indian life, frontier life in the year 1814 and emphasizes the importance of the battle in United States history through a variety...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A man who has been convicted of a dozen prior felonies was sentenced to 18 years in prison today for cocaine and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Cedarhurst, New York, man today admitted his role in a long-running market manipulation scheme that netted millions in illegal profits between 2014 and 2016, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), and Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (VA-03) released the following joint statement today in response to the Trump administration’s release of a proposed rule that would allow health insurance companies to offer short-term plans that do not comply with Affordable Care Act (ACA) consumer protection standards...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Esmeralda Dominguez, 33, of Glendale, Ariz., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: Lewis Bennett, 41, a dual citizen of Australia and the United Kingdom, was arrested by the FBI on a criminal complaint charging him with second-degree murder of his wife, Isabella Hellman, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) released the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a proposed rule to allow short-term insurance plans for longer periods of time.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States District Judge William H. Steele sentenced Eric Davis, 39, of Monroeville, Alabama, to 108 months imprisonment for coercion and enticement of a minor. As part of the sentence, the judge ordered that...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: HELENA, AL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited ABC Polymer Industries LLC, after an employee suffered fatal injuries when she was pulled into a plastics recycling machine. The company faces $195,144 in proposed penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court in Johnstown to 108 months in prison and three years’ supervised release on her conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
