News from September 2018
By EPA Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) blasted today’s announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the agency is planning to roll back the Obama era methane emissions standards for the oil and gas industry...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An Ohio man who admitted in court to his association with an Attleboro, MA, woman and others who supplied him with significant quantities of heroin, which he then sold in Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence on Monday to 48 months in federal prison on drug trafficking charges.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal to weaken oil and gas industry emission standards under the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS)...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), announced a markup for Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - John William Hall, 61, a registered sex offender residing in Pensacola, was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison yesterday, after pleading guilty on Feb. 22, to receipt of child pornography. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: Page, AZ - The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking public comment on an Expanded Non-native Aquatic Species Management Plan and Environmental Assessment in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Glen Canyon NRA) and Grand Canyon National Park below the Glen Canyon Dam. Public comments will be accepted for a 30-day period from Sept. 11 to Oct. 11, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Gregory Keith Clinton, of Kearneysville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 264 months incarceration for drug and firearm charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senate and House committee leaders announced a bipartisan, bicameral agreement on comprehensive water infrastructure legislation. Agreement on the legislation, America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, was announced by U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Danielle Glotfelty, 32, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning in federal court to a production of child pornography charge. Danielle Glotfelty entered the guilty plea under a plea agreement that recommends that she be sentenced to an 18-year term of imprisonment followed by at least five years of supervised release. Danielle Glotfelty also will be required to register as a sex offender after she completes her prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that Abdullah Jabbar Aquil, a/k/a “Wap," age 42, of Columbia, was sentenced in federal court to 92 months’ imprisonment to be followed by 6 years of supervised release. Aquil plead guilty in January to possession with intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: Drugs came to Colorado from California.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to his role in a conspiracy to kidnap and torture an Independence, Mo., man.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Lahkwinder Singh was sentenced in federal court on Sept. 7, 2018, to 36 months in federal prison and a forfeiture of $1,955,521 to the United States for structuring approximately $2,955,521 in currency transactions with domestic financial institutions. The 36-month sentence is one of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Bobby Roy Justice, 67, of Dandridge, Tennessee, and formerly of Pikeville, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in federal prison, by Chief United States District Judge Karen K. Caldwell, for conspiring to distribute oxycodone pills. Justice was also ordered to pay a $60,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced former FourWinds Chief Executive Officer Stanley P. Bates to.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today applauding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launch of the Eureka prize competition to spur the development of technology applications to improve Alzheimer’s care, which was established as part of the 21st Century Cures Act. Up to $400,000 in cash prizes may be awarded to teams or individuals that participate in the challenge...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: Scam Generated More Than $200,000 Meant for Special-Needs Students.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Hendricus Tyronyae Parker, 38, of Jackson, pled guilty Friday before U.S. Chief District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Adrian Baron, the former Chief Business Officer and former Chief Executive Officer of Loyal Bank Ltd, an off-shore bank with offices in Budapest, Hungary and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States by failing...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), announced a markup for Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
