News from March 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement calling on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before the committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: A former Seattle Police Officer was sentenced today to 6 years in prison, and his co-conspirator in an interstate marijuana distribution scheme was sentenced today to 14 years in prison, in U.S. District Court in Seattle, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. Former officer ALEX CHAPACKDEE, 44, of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Two Newport News men have been sentenced to a combined 87 months in prison for distributing heroin, including on the property of a local elementary school.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joseph P. Kelly announced today that on March 22, 2018, Brandon Carr, age 32 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Tiera Rowsey-Harris, age 25 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, were sentenced for transporting an adult female in interstate commerce with intent to promote prostitution. United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Defendants Shipped Massive Loads of Marijuana to Baltimore via RV; Conspired to Launder Proceeds in Legal Marijuana Venture.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Sierra Front Field Office is requesting any data, other information or photographs pertaining to the vegetation condition, utilization levels, riparian condition and wild horse condition within the Flanigan Herd Management Area (HMA). The HMA is located west of Pyramid Lake. Data must be submitted by April 23, 2018.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing titled, “Legislative Hearing on Four Communications Bills:"
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing titled, “Legislative Hearing on Four Communications Bills:"
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced a South Carolina man late yesterday to 24 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, in connection with a “synthetic identity" bank fraud scheme, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders and key members of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding its oversight of the Medicaid drug rebate program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama- Fifteen people in Montgomery were indicted last week and arrested yesterday for illegally possessing guns, announced Louis V. Franklin, Sr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. Nationwide, gun crimes, gangs and shootings are at an all-time high and law enforcement in the River Region is working to make our neighborhoods safer and our citizens more secure. To that end, the following people have been indicted and/or arrested.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Barrasso, Whitehouse, Capito, and Heitkamp Introduce USE IT Act to Incentivize Carbon Capture Development and Deployment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Michael Moore (37, Sarasota) to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. The court also ordered him to forfeit the firearm and ammunition used in the offense.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement calling on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before the committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Defendant admitted responsibility for his role in murder of innocent bystander in Chelsea.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) led a successful effort to include the Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development Act of 2015 (BUILD Act) in the final Senate omnibus appropriations legislation for Fiscal Year 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: CRESCENT CITY, Calif. - Redwood National and State Parks is seeking enthusiastic local youth age 15 to 18 to apply for Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) jobs this summer. This highly successful program offers local teens a chance to participate in conservation work throughout Redwood National and State Parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Marian Walas (65, Lakeland) with storage of hazardous waste without a permit, in violation of the Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA). If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison and a fine of up to $50,000 per day of the violation. Walas was arrested in Atlanta on Feb. 14, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: HILLIARD FAZANDE, III (“FAZANDE"), age 50, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty today to bank theft, announced United States Attorney Duane A. Evans.
