News from July 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee unanimously voted against a measure to protect individuals with pre-existing conditions from discrimination. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, offered the amendment to prevent health care plans from taking away pre-existing condition protections during a committee markup of 11 health-related bills.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: KANAB, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Alton Coal Tract Lease by Application for federal coal resources on lands near Alton, Utah. The proposed project supports Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s priorities of energy independence and being a good neighbor to local communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Kenny Furdge, 24, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson for armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during the robbery. Furdge was sentenced to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: U. S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that NORWIN CASTELLON-LOPEZ, age 35, a citizen and national of Nicaragua, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information charging him with illegally re-entering the United States having previously been deported as an illegal alien who had been previously convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Yesterday evening, after a 10-day trial, a jury found four members of La Asociación ÑETA guilty of racketeering, and drug trafficking, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. United States District Court visiting Judge Timothy Hillman presided over the trial. As of today, 26 defendants have plead guilty, 19 defendants are pending trial and one defendant passed away.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Independence, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DERRICK WILSON, age 34, of Franklinton, Louisiana, pled guilty today to conspiring to distribute a quantity of cocaine hydrochloride, stemming from a Sept. 27, 2015, traffic stop in Kenner, during which police seized one-half kilogram of powder cocaine...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Two brothers pleaded guilty today to conspiracy, mail fraud, and identity theft charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dennis Bernhard, 56, of Derby, N.Y., who was convicted of bribery, was sentenced to time served, and one year supervised release, to include three months home confinement by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Joseph Hamilton, 30, has pleaded guilty to federal charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the guilty plea today.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Full Committee markup...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Full Committee markup...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today advanced more than one dozen bills to the House of Representatives for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Glenn Eugene Halfin, 64, from Grapevine, Texas, appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey L. Cureton in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas and pleaded guilty to a federal charge of interfering with an African-American family’s housing rights, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas and Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Juan Santana, 42, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 15 months in prison and three years of supervised release for making a false statement in a passport application and aggravated identity theft.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today advanced more than one dozen bills to the House of Representatives for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank today announced Operation Synthetic Opioid Surge (S.O.S.), a new program that seeks to reduce the supply of deadly synthetic opioids in high impact areas and to identify wholesale distribution networks and international and domestic suppliers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that TOSH TOUSSAINT, age 27, was sentenced to 62 months in the Bureau of Prisons, with a term of three years of supervised release to follow. TOUSSAINT previously pleaded guilty to one count of possession with the intent to distribute cocaine base, in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 24-year-old Bradley Ahearn to 20 years in federal prison for shooting a U.S. Mail carrier last year in Spring Branch, TX, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Houston Division; and, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Washington - On June 5, 2018, Robert “Bobby" Whiteman, Monte Vista, Colo., waived his right to a hearing, entered into a stipulation agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and paid a penalty of $750 for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
