News from July 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Trump Administration’s rollback of the coal ash rule...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Ira Alan Arias, age 42, of Fort Worth, Texas, and Sisseton, South Dakota, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison following a federal jury’s guilty verdicts on three counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent letters requesting information from location data aggregator LocationSmart and third-party services Securus Technologies and 3CInteractive regarding reports of misuse of personally identifiable consumer location information collected by wireless providers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: On July 17, 2018, Roosevelt Leon Cooper, 43, of Fort Lauderdale was sentenced to 5 years in prison after previously pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: An Akron man was indicted in federal court for making threats involving explosives and interstate threats stemming from posts he made on Facebook in which he referenced making explosives and shooting police officers.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - On July 21, the Bureau of Land Management is offering a guided hike to the Flood Site in the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument. The hike is free and begins at 8 a.m. from the second parking lot from the Monument entrance. Colin Dunn, the BLM monument paleontologist, will lead the 3-hour hike and talk about the climate, organisms and marine life that inhabited the area 280 million years ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Wilson Longwell, of Littleton, West Virginia, and Haley Weigle, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, have admitted to their roles in a methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin distribution operation that spanned multiple states, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Wednesday, July 25, 2018, at 9 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “21st Century Cures Implementation: Updates from FDA and NIH."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Vincente Manuel Ruiz, 37, of Modesto, California, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 60 months in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge J. Derryle Smith. Ruiz was also ordered to pay a $4,000.00 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), held a hearing today with the commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). #SubDCCP members received an update on the FTC’s mission and current priorities including data privacy and consumer...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a four-year federal prison sentence handed down in June 2017 to 50-year-old investment counselor Charles Augustus Banks, IV, an executive with Gameday Entertainment, LLC (Gameday), for defrauding a San Antonio victim of millions of dollars announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter to Secretary of the Department of Transportation (DOT) Elaine Chao, ...
By State Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House today passed the BUILD Act of 2018 (H.R. 5105) to increase opportunities for American job creators in emerging overseas markets. Specifically, the bill consolidates OPIC, USAID’s Development Credit Authority and other development finance authorities into a modern, self-sustaining...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jack Wood, 47, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Separate Charges Also Filed Against Three Other Associates of the Cachiros, Including Arnaldo Urbina Soto, the Former Mayor of Yoro, Honduras.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: The owner of Eelon Training Academy (“Eelon”), a privately owned, non-accredited school purporting to specialize in digital media courses, pleaded guilty today to bribing a public official at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in exchange for the public official’s facilitation of payments to ...
By Labor Gazette | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: BRYAN, TX – Texas-based cabinet manufacturer Kent Moore Cabinets LLC will pay $175,458 in back wages to 59 employees to resolve overtime, minimum wage, and recordkeeping violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) found in an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD).
By Labor Gazette | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NY – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Timberline Hardwood Floors LLC for willful and serious violations of workplace safety and health standards. The Fulton, New York, custom hardwood-flooring manufacturer faces proposed penalties totaling $182,917.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor has rescinded the 2016 Persuader Rule, which exceeded the authority of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA). The Persuader Rule impinged on attorney-client privilege by requiring confidential information to be part of disclosures and ...
By DOT News Wire | Jul 17, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a four page notice on July 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
