News from October 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Transportation released “Preparing for the Future of Transportation, Automated Vehicles 3.0 (AV 3.0)."
By EPA Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to the CEOs of Alphabet, Facebook and Twitter today following concerning reports of Russia-linked efforts to influence the national debate over the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. In his letters, Pallone requests answers on the companies’ efforts to safeguard the American political system and to combat foreign interference campaigns on their platforms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann sentenced a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man convicted of abusive sexual contact on Oct. 1, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Arrest Followed Investigation of “Doxxing" Activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Louisiana announced that BRANDON HALL, a/k/a “B-Hilly," age 28, and ALOYSIUS KORIEOCHA, a/k/a “Madi," a/k/a “Ball," age 36, both of New Orleans, pleaded guilty today to federal charges stemming from their participation in a violent drug-trafficking organization operating primarily in the Eastside Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Transportation released “Preparing for the Future of Transportation, Automated Vehicles 3.0 (AV 3.0)."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Victim Shot in Broad Daylight; Second Victim Also Struck by Gunfire.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Daphne Janis, age 37, of Rapid City, South Dakota, was found guilty of False Statements Relating to Health Care Matters, Obtaining Controlled Substances by Fraud, and Using a Communications Facility to Commit another Felony, following a federal jury trial in Rapid City.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Oct. 3, 2018, Trinity Scott Johnson, 39, of Morristown, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 17 years in federal prison. Johnson pleaded guilty in July 2018 to conspiracy to distribute over 50 grams of methamphetamine (meth) or “Ice" and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Ray Perales, 43, of Caldwell, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 262 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. A federal grand jury indicted Perales on Sept. 14, 2017, and he later pleaded guilty on July 13, 2018. Perales was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David C. Nye.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ- North Rim operations in Grand Canyon National Park will begin day use operations on Thursday Nov. 1, 2018. At that time, the Visitor Center, Backcountry Office and Campground Kiosk will be closed. The Entrance Station will be unstaffed, but fees will continue to be collected via an automated machine. Limited park staff is present on the North Rim year-round.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - Donte Holdbrook, 24, of Middletown, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to his role in a local narcotics conspiracy tied to the Sinaloa Drug Cartel in Mexico.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s “Preparing for the Future of Transportation, Automated Vehicles 3.0 (AV 3.0):"
By DOE Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s “Preparing for the Future of Transportation, Automated Vehicles 3.0 (AV 3.0):"
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-N.H.) and Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee, today sent a letter to Cynthia Martinez, Chief of the National Wildlife Refuge System (the System), requesting additional information on recent changes to FWS policy that would decommission dual status officers in the System.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to the CEOs of Alphabet, Facebook and Twitter today following concerning reports of Russia-linked efforts to influence the national debate over the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. In his letters, Pallone requests answers on the companies’ efforts to safeguard the American political system and to combat foreign interference campaigns on their platforms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: A Mesquite-based bariatric surgeon today formally admitted his role in the $200 million Forest Park Medical Center fraud, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A Champaign, Ill., man, Stephan Caamano, 23, appeared in federal court in Urbana today for arraignment on charges that he allegedly trafficked quantities of pills containing alprazolam, marked as ‘Xanax,’ and laundered proceeds of the alleged drug trafficking. Caamano, of the 1500 block of Glenshire Drive, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Eric I. Long. Trial in the case is scheduled on Nov. 13, 2019, before U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Some of our most widely used technologies might not exist without the private sector and government joining forces. Smartphone essentials like touch screens, digital voice assistants, GPS-and even the Internet-have resulted from this sort of collaboration. These are a fraction of the many life-changing innovations driven by public-private partnerships.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Malicious Mischief was sentenced on Oct. 2, 2018, by U.S. District Court Judge Roberto A. Lange.
