News from May 2018
By DOE Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in reaction to President Donald Trump’s speech on lowering prescription drug prices...
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: San Antonio Missions National Historical Park is seeking enthusiastic, organized, people-oriented individuals for Visitor Services Volunteer positions. The volunteers will work alongside National Park Service rangers in the Visitor Center at Mission San Jose. Volunteers will have an opportunity to learn...
By DOE Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today released the second video from its “Personal Stories from the Opioid Crisis" video series.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kenneth J. Monahan, age 43, of Menands, New York, made his appearance yesterday in federal court on a criminal complaint charging him with possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Janelle M. Miller, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Kent Igleheart, a former Roswell, Georgia city councilman, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for multiple counts of producing, receiving, and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Bryson-Taylor Wayne Banks, a former Cartersville, Georgia police officer, was sentenced to federal prison for notifying drug traffickers that the FBI was conducting a court-authorized wiretap of their phones.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement after President Trump’s speech on drug pricing reforms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Rene Barrera, Sr, of Del Rio, Texas, who was one of several tax preparers at Tax Genius in Richardson, Texas, appeared in federal court Tuesday, May 8, 2018, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Irma Carrillo Ramirez and pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation of a fraudulent tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in reaction to President Donald Trump’s speech on lowering prescription drug prices...
By DOE Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), announced today a hearing for Friday, May 18, 2018 at 9:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Disrupter Series: Quantum Computing."
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: Reservations will be available May 15, 2018 on Recreation.gov.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: Kelly Thornton (619) 546-9726. NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - May 11, 2018. SAN DIEGO - Two Mexican nationals - one armed with a makeshift plastic shiv and another with a 4X4 piece of lumber - were arrested and charged in unrelated assaults on U.S. Border Patrol agents along the border this week. According...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Field Division (“DEA"), Angel M. Melendez, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Immigration ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill sentenced the remaining two defendants in an “operation homeless" bank fraud prosecution, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Travis Bolston, 36, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to time served, which amounted to approximately nine months (he was...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that on May 10, 2018, Senior United States District Court Judge W. Louis Sands sentenced Jon Benton, age 38, of Brunswick, GA, to 180 months’ imprisonment for the offense of conspiracy with the intent to distribute...
By DOL Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: HUNTSVILLE, AL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited All Power Construction Corp. and staffing agency Labor Finders of Tennessee Inc. after a temporary employee installing sewer lines suffered a fatal injury in a trench collapse. All Power Construction Corp. faces $139,684 in proposed penalties and Labor Finders of Tennessee Inc. faces the maximum allowed $12,934 in proposed penalties.
By Homeland Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: The Honorable Paul D. Ryan. Speaker of the House of Representatives. H-232, United States Capitol. Washington, D.C. 20515. Dear Speaker Ryan, Just months after passing the deficit-exploding tax scam that hurts millions of middle class families, Republicans this week introduced President Trump’s rescissions...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area executive and Croatian national Renato Libric was arrested yesterday in Redwood City, Calif., on charges related to an alleged $1.5 million investment fraud scheme, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. In an indictment filed yesterday and unsealed this morning, a federal grand jury charged Libric with forging signatures on documents to carry out the fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - A North Carolina podiatrist and his son are facing federal charges in connection with an unemployment insurance benefits scheme, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. A criminal bill of information was filed in U.S. District Court in Asheville today, charging Dr. Jerry Gross, 72, and his son, Jason Lee Gross, 51, both of Rutherfordton, N.C., with wire fraud.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2018
News Release: Experience Your National Park Through Art!.
