News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Cheng Qi Li, 29, of Flushing, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to use interstate facilities to promote prostitution and to transport individuals in interstate commerce with intent that such individuals would engage in prostitution, was sentenced to serve 21 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously passed H.R. 1109, To amend section 203 of the Federal Power Act. H.R. 1109 first passed the House in June 2017, by voice vote. The Senate passed the bill, with an amendment, earlier this month by unanimous consent. The bill now heads to President Trump’s desk for his signature.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Guilty Plea Results in Fourth Drug Trafficking Conviction.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing titled, “Perspectives on U.S. Agricultural Trade."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Today, a Fort Lauderdale resident was sentenced to over 92 years in prison by United States District Senior Judge James I. Cohn, after having been convicted at trial of three armed robberies, a carjacking, and brandishing a firearm during the commission of each violent act.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), held a hearing examining ways to meaningfully evaluate, and responsibly increase the use of value-based models and arrangements in the Medicare program. Members discussed how those initiatives currently operate, as well...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Today, a Fort Lauderdale resident was sentenced to over 92 years in prison by United States District Senior Judge James I. Cohn, after having been convicted at trial of three armed robberies, a carjacking, and brandishing a firearm during the commission of each violent act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Daniel Jimmy Morgan, 29, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Mexican Springs, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a voluntary manslaughter charge.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Environment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), and Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement after the House of Representatives unanimously passed S. 3021, the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Mark A. Richards, 49, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 17 years and six months in prison to be followed by 10 years of supervised release for advertising child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Defendants were members of the New England Family of La Cosa Nostra.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), announced that the Senate and House of Representatives had reached an agreement on the most sweeping infrastructure package to be considered this Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Eleven people were indicted for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic large amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine from Texas to the Akron area.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), held a hearing today examining the practices and tools to reduce and manage the impacts of wildfire smoke on public health and local communities. Members reviewed how increasing forest management activities, such as prescribed...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Defendant, coach of a middle school basketball team, surreptitiously recorded team members showering.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Richard Mansfield Faces Possible 30-Year Federal Prison Term.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), held a hearing today examining the practices and tools to reduce and manage the impacts of wildfire smoke on public health and local communities. Members reviewed how increasing forest management activities, such as prescribed...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Two Texas men pleaded guilty to trafficking more than 10 kilograms of fentanyl through Louisiana, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and United States Attorney David C. Joseph.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today during consideration of America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018...
By State Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This week the House passed the Ileana Ros-Lehtinen United States-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2018 (S. 2497) to strengthen U.S.-Israel security assistance, and the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act of 2018 (H.R. 1911) to elevate the official in charge of the State Department office responsible for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism globally.
