News from January 2018
By DOE Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a markup on three bills to advance public health and help medical professionals.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee Mark-up on H.R. 1876, Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2017; H.R. 2026, Pharmaceutical Information Exchange Act; and H.R. __, Over-the-Counter Monograph Safety, Innovation, and Reform Act of 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: HELENA-Jeremy Michael Sullivan, 44, of Boulder, Montana, was sentenced to 30 months in prison, 3 years’ supervised release, and a $100 surcharge by United States District Court Judge Sam E. Haddon on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018 for possessing a firearm as a prohibited felon. Sullivan was arrested after being investigated for selling a stolen handgun. Sullivan was previously convicted of felony theft in Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating the federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a markup on three bills to advance public health and help medical professionals.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, all Democratic Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent a letter requesting that Chairman Trey Gowdy issue a subpoena to compel the Department of Homeland Security to produce a full, unredacted copy of a report completed more than three months ago by the Inspector General relating to President Donald Trump’s first attempt at banning Muslim immigrants and visitors from the United States.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Republicans who represent states that are about to run out of funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will hold a press conference. They will call on Democrats to stop holding CHIP funding hostage and to support passage this week.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Republicans who represent states that are about to run out of funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will hold a press conference. They will call on Democrats to stop holding CHIP funding hostage and to support passage this week.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a committee hearing titled “America's Water Infrastructure Needs and Challenges: Federal Panel."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 35-year-old Port Arthur, Texas man has been sentenced to 80 years in federal prison for violations related to the murder of a Port Acres woman in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Alan R. Jackson today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Joseph Woloszyn, 32, of Sacramento, was arrested today after a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment last Thursday charging him with obstruction of justice and perjury, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a markup on three bills to advance public health and help medical professionals.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: Making the nation’s electric power grid and oil and natural gas infrastructure resilient to cyber threats is a top priority for the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE). It is a complex challenge that requires an “all hands on deck" approach involving both industry and the public...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: Update: On March 4, 2019, Senior U.S. District Court Judge Charles Roberts Breyer of the Northern District of California granted the Rule 29 motion and granted an acquittal. Mr. Bogucki was acquitted on all charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging NICOLAS DE-MEYER with the interstate...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Corey Letroit Joseph Riggs, of Houston, Texas was sentenced today to 46 months incarceration for an illegal firearm charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Matthew Maffei, aka “Uncle Matt," of Aston, Delaware County, PA, was sentenced today to 90 years in federal prison for his manufacture of sexually explicit images of the 7-year old daughter of his childhood friend, and the transportation, receipt, and possession of child pornography. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on Jan. 12, 2018, Marc Biggs, 34, of Pontoon Beach, Illinois, was sentenced for felon in possession of a firearm. The Honorable Nancy J. Rosenstengel sentenced Biggs to 30 months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release and a $100 special assessment. Biggs also agreed to forfeit the illegal firearm that he possessed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two Detroit men pleaded guilty today to federal drug charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. JaJuan Thrasher, 30, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin. In a separate prosecution, Charles Duncan Pippins, 30, pleaded guilty to distributing heroin...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - In separate cases, two defendants were sentenced today for drug trafficking on the dark-web marketplace AlphaBay, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
