News from July 2018
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved legislation to address maritime transportation safety issues raised by the El Faro sinking, promote the Coast Guard’s awareness of technologies that could help improve Service mission performance, and reduce marine debris.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Defendants Accused of Daylight Shooting on Busy D.C. Street Corner, Killing and Wounding Innocent Bystanders.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Trent Shores announced today that a jury found Randy Alan Hamett, 61, of Choctaw, guilty of Kidnapping, Possessing and Receiving Stolen Firearm and Ammunition, and Possession of Firearms and Ammunition While Subject to a Domestic Violence Protective Order. The jury determined that, on April...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Business E-Mail Scheme Generated More Than $900,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) held a hearing today with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai and the current FCC commissioners. After advancing legislation to reauthorize the FCC for the first time in 28 years, #SubCommTech...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Beginning Wednesday, Aug. 1, people may apply to the 2018-2019 winter lottery for permits to snowmobile in Yellowstone without a commercial guide. Authorized in 2013, the Non-commercially Guided Snowmobile Access Program allows one group of up to five snowmobiles to enter Yellowstone from each of its four winter entrances per day.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A third person charged in federal court in Rhode Island in a series of on-going investigations into individuals who are stealing personal identifying information of others and using that information to apply for bank loans and retail store credit cards or lines of credit, has been sentenced...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), held a hearing continuing its review of the implementation of the landmark 21st Century Cures Act (Cures), with a focus on the work being done at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), held a hearing today on the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program’s use of renewable identification numbers (RINs). WHY: “The purpose of today’s hearing is very much educational in nature and is intended to promote greater...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a final rule that will provide for faster approval of applications for small-scale exports of natural gas, including liquefied natural gas (LNG), from U.S. export facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Wednesday, July 25, 2018, another Alabama legislator was arrested in a pending public corruption case involving the owner of a chain of diabetes treatment clinics, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Sheffield, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Emeka Ndukwu, 46, of Upper Marlboro, Md., was sentenced today to four years in prison for conspiring to launder the proceeds of scams that tricked seven companies in the United States and abroad into wiring more than $900,000 into accounts controlled by various co-conspirators.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 65 during a 5-day period, ending July 20 in New York City, and on Long Island.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing on “Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Richard Wardell Johnson with nine counts of bank robbery. Johnson, who was arrested on May 29, 2018 on a criminal complaint, is in federal custody and will be arraigned on a later date.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested an unlawfully present Mexican national Monday who is a registered sex offender in Orange County, North Carolina, after the county refused to honor an ICE detainer and instead released him...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of a complaint charging three defendants with allegedly...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) held a hearing today with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai and the current FCC commissioners. After advancing legislation to reauthorize the FCC for the first time in 28 years, #SubCommTech...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 6311, the Increasing Access to Lower Premium Plans and Expanding Health Savings Accounts Act of 2018, authored by Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), by a vote of 242-176.
