News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that CHRISTIAN GERALD DESGROUX, age 57, of Raleigh, pled guilty today to pretending to be a United States Army Lieutenant General engaged in transporting a person for a classified briefing and...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing on drug pricing and innovation with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Crews from the Bureau of Land Management have launched a summer project to spruce up the Hobo Camp day use area along the Bizz Johnson National Recreation Trail, and welcome volunteer help.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Ryan Farace, age 34, of Reisterstown, Maryland, and Robert Swain, age 34, of Freeland, Maryland, on charges related to a scheme to manufacture and distribute alprazolam tablets, which are typically sold under the brand name “Xanax." The indictment...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, released the following joint statement on news reports that the Trump Administration plans to divert funds from the Coast Guard to Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man, who previously admitted to being a felon in possession of a firearm, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison. This term has also been ordered to run consecutively to pending state court sentences.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Maya Fresh LLC satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Brazilian national pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with an ATM skimming operation.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Chairman Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ). Subcommittee on Aviation. Hearing on “Commercial Space Transportation Regulatory Reform: Stakeholder Perspectives". June 26, 2018. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). Today we will be hearing from representatives of the commercial space transportation industry and other...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced the Compassionate Calling and Immigrant Family Reunification Act of 2018 today to put an end to the abusive practice of charging detained immigrant parents extortionary rates to use the phone to either contact their children that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man caught selling methamphetamine in July 2017 pled guilty today to a federal drug conspiracy charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Timothy Boggs, 21, entered his guilty plea to an indictment charging him with conspiracy to distribute five grams or more...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Sergey Demidenko pleaded guilty to six counts of bank robbery before United States District Court Judge Pamela K. Chen. When he is sentenced, Demidenko faces a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced their latest efforts to improve the integrity of the Medicaid program following the release of state Medicaid data scorecards earlier this month.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: There is a great misconception among the startup community that government contracts are too slow and too complex to pursue.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired an Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to consider four nominees for the Department of Energy (DOE). The nominees were Teri Donaldson to be Inspector General; Dr. Christopher Fall to be Director of the Office of Science; Karen Evans to be Assistant Secretary of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response; and Daniel Simmons to be Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 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 Energy hearing titled “The Shifting Geopolitics of Oil and Gas:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced Derrick Burney (40, Jacksonville) to 57 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Burney pleaded guilty on March 20, 2018.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON – Officials from the United States and United Kingdom gathered today at DOE headquarters to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the U.S.–U.K. Mutual Defense Agreement (MDA), which provides for the exchange of defense information relevant to nuclear weapons, naval nuclear propulsion, and nuclear threat reduction.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume and ask unanimous consent that my full remarks be entered into the record.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM Assistant Secretary Anne White visited the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) last week for the first time in her current role.
