News from January 2018
By EPA Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (VA-03), and Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (MA-01) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor issued a proposed rule to rollback health coverage protections by expanding association health plans...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Billy Hershell Smith II, age 48, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 293 months imprisonment, and 10 years of supervised release for Sexual Exploitation Of Children, in violation of Title...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after #SubOversight Chairman, Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) announced his retirement at the conclusion of this term.
By State Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement regarding the Department of State’s report designating countries of particular concern for religious freedom violations...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: CHEYENNE, Oklahoma: Washita Battlefield National Historic Site is hosting a free Tea Party & Quilt Reveal on January 9th, 2018 from 12:30 pm to 3:00 p.m. at the Cheyenne Senior Citizens Center. All are invited to attend the free ‘come and go’ High Tea to view the finished anniversary quilt.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Derek Cyrus and Chuck Sandford have been sentenced for running a false invoicing scheme that defrauded the Panda Express restaurant chain of nearly $1.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: In Austin today, a federal complaint was unsealed charging Terrance “Terry" Allen Miles in the kidnapping of two minors, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that Renae Dawn Bighorn was sentenced to 60 months in prison, four years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters presided over the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Jan. 3, 2018, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against a man who allegedly attempted to entice a minor female into performing sex acts for money. The indictment named Mario Escalante (age: 41), an enrolled member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, who currently resides in Keshena on the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: SEATTLE - The following is a statement from United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington Annette L. Hayes.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement on the Trump Administration's decision to revise the 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program (Five-Year Plan), finalized in November 2016, and move to open parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the Gulf of Mexico to increased oil and gas drilling.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (VA-03), and Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (MA-01) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor issued a proposed rule to rollback health coverage protections by expanding association health plans...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Trump administration’s newly-announced five-year plan for offshore oil and gas leasing along the entire Atlantic and Pacific coasts, in combination with its efforts to weaken offshore drilling environmental and safety standards, will put every coastal community in America at risk...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after #SubOversight Chairman, Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) announced his retirement at the conclusion of this term.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (VA-03), and Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (MA-01) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor issued a proposed rule to rollback health coverage protections by expanding association health plans...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II announced that Aleksandar Jokic, 43, of Schererville, Indiana was sentenced before District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen for one count of soliciting the transportation of a person across state lines for prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Everitt Aaron Jameson, 26, of Modesto, today charging him with attempting provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization and distribution of information relating to destructive devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Defendant among the 103 Individuals Federally Charged as the Result of ATF-Led Investigation Pursued in Support of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 4, 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 the Department of Labor’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on expanding Association Health Plans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR a/k/a “Jay Taylor," a/k/a “Josie Reeser," was sentenced today to 46 months in prison in connection with his seven-year scheme to defraud multiple victims into providing their...
