News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today the conviction of an illegal alien who coerced and enticed a child victim to engage in sexually explicit conduct and send him images of such conduct over the internet. The defendant, VICTOR ZELAYA-FUNEZ, a Honduran national residing in Zachary...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a former office manager of a Cameron company pleaded guilty last week to stealing more than $91,000 from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: The remaining five defendants in a multi-state heroin trafficking conspiracy were sentenced to federal prison yesterday, including three from middle Tennessee and two from Chicago, Illinois, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee. Eight persons were indicted on charges of conspiring to distribute heroin and all pleaded guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH- After a lengthy Title III wiretap investigation into drug trafficking and violence in Pittsburgh’s West End neighborhoods and other communities in the Greater Pittsburgh area, 28 people, all residents of Western Pennsylvania, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted an Annandale man today on charges of conspiracy, aiding in the preparation of false tax returns, mail and wire fraud. The jury also determined that over $1.34 million should be forfeited as proceeds of the crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Parveg Ahmed pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly to one count of attempting to provide material support or resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (“ISIS"), a designated foreign terrorist organization. When he is sentenced, Ahmed faces a statutory maximum of 20 years’ imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: A Detroit man pleaded guilty today to conspiring to engage in mail fraud and being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: FBI Announces the Arrest of an Alleged Bank Robber.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today in opposition to H.R. 5797, The IMD CARE Act...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), held a hearing today on the economic impacts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, particularly on small businesses, consumers, and the energy sector. WHY: “Across the nation, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is resulting in widespread...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Pawtucket man previously convicted on drug trafficking and firearm charges, and who became the focus of a joint Pawtucket Police Department, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and ATF Task Force drug trafficking investigation, has been sentenced to more than 6 years in federal prison for being in possession of significant quantities of crack cocaine, marijuana, and Oxycodone, and a loaded firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD")...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: TAMPA, Florida - Three new companies and 16 companies that joined last year were recognized by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) employment compliance program called IMAGE at a recent ceremony.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a hearing on the nominations of William Charles McIntosh and Peter C. Wright to be assistant administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOL Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: NAPLES, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Douglas N. Higgins Inc., a South Florida utility contractor, for exposing employees to cave-in and other hazards at a Naples worksite. The company faces $18,659 in proposed penalties.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: All 24 Energy and Commerce Democrats sent a letter to full Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael Burgess (R-TX) today demanding an immediate hearing on the wellbeing of the children being forcibly separated from their parents and families and placed into the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), held a hearing today on the economic impacts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, particularly on small businesses, consumers, and the energy sector. WHY: “Across the nation, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is resulting in widespread...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement on today’s Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on the nomination of Peter Feldman to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: Today, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross allocated $200 million in disaster funding appropriated by Congress to help fishermen and the businesses and communities that rely upon them to recover and rebuild following hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in 2017. Funding has also been appropriated and allocated for the disasters that devastated the West Coast and Alaska fishermen from 2014 to 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 5797, the IMD CARE Act, authored by Rep. Mimi Walters (R-CA) by a bipartisan vote of 261-155.
