News from November 2018

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG, PA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Robert Lee Johnson a/k/a Stone, age 52, of York, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on sex trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces the unsealing of an Indictment charging KELVIN DONNELL JOHNSON, KHADIR ELIJAH BEAMON, TIMOTHY LYDELL JONES, CARVIS CHARLES MARABLE, and BRANDON DARNELL MCNEILL with conspiracy to distribute marijuana and theft of mail.

By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced the release of the 2018 version of the Ways and Means Green Book. This publication’s official title is “Background Material and Data on the Programs within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means."...

By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways & Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) sent a letter to top Trump Administration officials demanding answers to a series of questions on the Administration’s latest illegal efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...

By EPA Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today announced a hearing for Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “RAY BAUM’S Act: A Bipartisan Foundation for Bridging the Digital Divide."

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges stemming from an armed bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By DOL Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered opening remarks at the Committee’s November markup hearing where members on both sides of the aisle came together to pass legislation to help identify...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: A Houston, Texas doctor was sentenced to 60 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release today for his role in a fraudulent medical clinic that ran costly, unnecessary diagnostic tests.

By DOE Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today announced a hearing for Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “RAY BAUM’S Act: A Bipartisan Foundation for Bridging the Digital Divide."
By State Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, met today with former Secretary General of NATO and Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Representative Engel shared his views that all prudent steps must be taken to continue to preserve and strengthen...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Rosibel Catalan-Bonifacio, age 24, and a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty today to illegal re-entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Lesley Brovner, Acting Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation (“DOI"), and James D. Robnett, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTIAN MEISSENN, also known as “Christian Nigohossian," 46, of Suffield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to three months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a securities fraud scheme.

By DOE Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways & Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) sent a letter to top Trump Administration officials demanding answers to a series of questions on the Administration’s latest illegal efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: TONOPAH, Nev. - The Department of Energy, Office of Legacy Management Office, has applied to the Bureau of Land Management to withdraw approximately 361 acres of land surrounding part of its Central Nevada Test Area. The BLM has completed an Environmental Assessment which is now available for public comment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Today, a federal grand jury indicted Michael Richard Lynch, the former Chief Executive Officer (“CEO") of Autonomy Corporation plc (“Autonomy"), with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and multiple counts of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Mexican citizen most recently residing in Westmoreland County was sentenced today to three years in prison for illegal reentry following removal for a felony conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant ALFRED LARIOZA MALIT, JR., age 36, from Sinajana, was sentenced in District Court to a term of 87 months imprisonment for attempted possession of methamphetamine with intent...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard Dinwiddie, 58, of Cliff, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M, to 15 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for being a drug addict in possession of firearms and ammunition.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: KING OF PRUSSIA, P.A. - On Dec. 14, 2018 the National Park Service will open a new 5,760 square-foot Visitor Center within Valley Forge National Historical Park. The opening of this new, temporary facility will enable construction to begin on a $12 million renovation to the current Visitor Center...