News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging BARTON GEORGE SCOTT, 35, with child pornography and computer hacking offenses. SCOTT made his initial appearance on Sept. 25, 2018, before Magistrate Judge David T. Schultz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing today examining the rapidly-changing state of the traditional and digital media marketplace. #SubCommTech members heard from expert witnesses about how trends in consumer habits and innovation have shaped the 21st century media landscape.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the sentencing of GARY WAYNE JACKSON, JR., 26, to 30 years in prison for second-degree murder in the beating death of his 23-month-old son. JACKSON, who pleaded guilty on June 20, 2018, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Ann D. Montgomery in U.S. District Court in Bemidji, Minnesota.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - Over 300 companies convened at the Alexander Hamilton Customs House Thursday for the 2018 IMAGE Training and Forum. New York based businesses have participated in this forum, hosted by with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York, to learn more about the benefits of joining the agency’s employment compliance program IMAGE, or “ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers."
By DOE Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) will be a keynote speaker at tomorrow’s White House summit on 5G. Chairman Walden will deliver remarks regarding the committee’s efforts to secure America’s lead in the race to next-generation wireless technologies.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: A NOAA analysis released today finds significantly higher rainfall frequency values in parts of Texas, redefining the amount of rainfall it takes to qualify as a 100-year or 1000-year event.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Gilberto Garcia-Garcia, 26, of Mexico, charging him with conspiring to manufacture and manufacturing at least 1,000 marijuana plants and depredation of public lands and resources, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: The Finance Committee meets this morning to consider two nominations: Gail Ennis to serve as Inspector General of the Social Security Administration, and Gordon Hartogensis to serve as the Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), held a hearing today with newly Senate-confirmed Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response (CESER) Karen Evans. WHY: “I’d like to learn today what other pieces are necessary...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: MISSOULA - Salomon Mejia Preciado, a 36-year-old resident of Yakima, Washington, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison to be followed by 5 years of supervised release. Preciado pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Preciado is a former Federal felon and was prosecuted in the Eastern District of Washington and sentenced in 2003 to ten years in prison. U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy handed down the sentence.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing on “State of the Media Marketplace:"
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: KEYSTONE, S.D. - As the leaves begin to change, so do the hours of operation at Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Fall and early winter can be a beautiful time to enjoy the sculpture.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that 42-year old Brian Weber of Great Falls was sentenced to 180 months in prison, 10 years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided over the hearing.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Energy hearing on “DOE Modernization: The Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response:"
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Eric Howard, 38, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 10 years in federal prison for distributing cocaine and discharging a firearm in furtherance of that drug trafficking crime. Howard pleaded guilty to these charges on June 28, 2018. His prison term will be followed by a three-year period of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Harkers Island, N.C. - The National Park Service Incident Management Team (IMT) is responding to national parks impacted by Hurricane Florence. At this time, 77 National Park Service employees from 33 parks and 17 states and the District of Columbia are assigned to the incident. The public should not enter closed areas of parks until stabilization and restoration efforts are complete.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - A major law enforcement operation targeting drug trafficking in and around Indian Country in North Carolina has resulted in the arrest of more than 75 individuals on federal, state and tribal charges, announced Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke and Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent letters today to three federal agencies regarding the shipment of fentanyl and its analogues from China, and the trafficking of fentanyl and its analogues over the Southwest border by Mexican cartels into the United States.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent letters today to three federal agencies regarding the shipment of fentanyl and its analogues from China, and the trafficking of fentanyl and its analogues over the Southwest border by Mexican cartels into the United States.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), held a hearing to review a new discussion draft of H.R. 1318, the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act of 2017, authored by Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) and Diana DeGette (D-CO). The discussion draft would create a new...
