News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: Yesterday, a West Palm Beach federal jury convicted a Boynton Beach resident of producing and possessing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: National POW Museum 20th Anniversary Lecture Series.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Burke, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer, Failure to Appear, and Escape was sentenced on July 25, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) sent a letter to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Deputy Administrator Heidi King today expressing concerns...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it would reverse former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's last-minute decision to stop enforcing ...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX) sent a letter to Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael Burgess (R-TX) today demanding a hearing on the family separation crisis that has resulted from the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - A federal jury has found Courtney Rashon Johnson (43, Orlando) guilty of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Johnson faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, and up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Oct. 11, 2018.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate and House Agriculture Committee leadership today met to discuss the 2018 Farm Bill, prior to full Conference Committee discussions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: Benjamin G. Greenberg, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Adolphus P. Wright, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Ric Bradshaw, Sheriff of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO), announced that Roberto Paul Mendoza, 28, of Palm Beach County...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - A federal criminal complaint was filed today charging Derek Shawn Pendergraft, 20, of Asheville, N.C., with second degree murder, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) sent a letter to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Deputy Administrator Heidi King today expressing concerns...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: William McFarland, While Awaiting Sentencing for Defrauding Investors of Fyre Media Inc. and Fyre Festival LLC, Made False Representations to Customers of NYC VIP Access, Business Associates, and Federal Law Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: ALBANY: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces the sentencing of Markeith L. Smith, age 36, of Ashburn, GA, on July 25, 2018, in Albany by the Honorable Leslie J. Abrams, United States District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia. Mr. Smith previously...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON ? Today, Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), ranking member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01), and Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former Beaver County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of distribution and possession of images depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - A federal criminal complaint was filed today charging Derek Shawn Pendergraft, 20, of Asheville, N.C., with second degree murder, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX) sent a letter to Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael Burgess (R-TX) today demanding a hearing on the family separation crisis that has resulted from the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Steven Davis, 40, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for robbing a bank in Northwest Washington last fall, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Nancy McNamara, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Church Point woman was sentenced Tuesday to 262 months in prison for methamphetamine and cocaine distribution in Acadia and Lafayette parishes, and for illegally possessing a firearm.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 26, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways & Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today introduced The Lower Out-of-Pocket Costs for Seniors Act, which would make permanent an Affordable Care Act provision that limits the growth of consumer out-of-pocket spending in the Medicare Part D program. The Democrats’ proposal would save Medicare beneficiaries billions of dollars annually on prescription drugs.
