News from October 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today urging the agency to commence a rulemaking before the end of the year to expand and make enforceable the Wireless Network Resiliency Cooperative Framework. The rulemaking would make FCC resiliency standards enforceable and expand those standards beyond wireless networks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former Wichita police officer was sentenced Friday to a year on supervised probation for failing to report what he knew about illegal poker games, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: Defendant Also Took Part in Creating Mirai and clickfraud Botnets, Infecting Hundreds of Thousands of Devices with Malicious Software.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Arash Sean Soltani of Vista was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for possession of methamphetamine and marijuana with intent to distribute and for possession of firearm in furtherance of his drug trafficking activities, by the Honorable Gonzalo P. Curiel, United States District Judge, Southern District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: A Stark County man previously convicted of manslaughter was indicted for having a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein joined United States Attorney Justin Herdman, federal and local law enforcement officials today to announce a new strike force to target drug trafficking and violent crime in Cleveland.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: Cyber security breaches are on the rise in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, James Bayfield was sentenced by United States District Judge Eric N. Vitaliano to 21 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud. Bayfield was also ordered to pay $184,651 in forfeiture. Bayfield, a self-described mortgage specialist, was convicted by a federal jury in January 2017 for his role in a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, called on a Pentagon watchdog to investigate a website containing suggestive photos of women who are current servicemembers or spouses of current servicemembers.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy is investing $4 million in federal funding for four national lab-led research and development projects to identify new concepts and technologies for producing oxygen via air separation for use in flexible, modular gasification systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: DENVER -- Jason R. Dunn was sworn in as the United States Attorney for the District of Colorado this morning. Chief United States District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger administered the oath of office at the U.S. District Courthouse in Denver during a private ceremony witnessed by close family and senior staff. A formal investiture ceremony is being planned for a later date.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: The final theme of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2018 is dedicated to safeguarding our nation's critical infrastructure. As the Sector Specific Agency for cybersecurity in the energy sector, the Department of Energy (DOE) is charged with keeping our nation's energy infrastructure safe from cyber threats and attacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: Federal-Local Partnerships Now Entering Second Year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: Thirty four year-old Lonta Hobbs, the final defendant associated with a July 2018 drug bust that netted 25 defendants in Wichita Falls, has pleaded guilty, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that David Dratch, 23, of Montgomery, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession of a controlled substance, importation of a controlled substance, and smuggling goods into the United States. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fne.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Wakefield man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with a decade-long mortgage fraud scheme involving at least two dozen fraudulent loan transactions and $4.3 million in losses to lenders.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, Ryan Smith Hagel, 31, of San Luis Obispo, Calif., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 10 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Hagel had previously pleaded guilty to one count of fugitive from justice in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Eric Drake, of Weirton, West Virginia, has admitted to illegally distributing controlled substances, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Wakefield man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with a decade-long mortgage fraud scheme involving at least two dozen fraudulent loan transactions and $4.3 million in losses to lenders.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, all Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued the following statement in response to multiple pipe bombs targeting government officials, press outlets, and others...
