News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Jaye L. Thomas, an inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta (USP Atlanta), has been sentenced to additional prison time for escaping on three separate occasions. Thomas is the last defendant to be sentenced in an operation aimed at combating the rash of inmate escapes from the prison camp in 2016 and 2017.
By DOE 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 Commerce 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...
By Commerce 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 Health hearing on “Better Data and Better Outcomes: Reducing Maternal Mortality in the US:"
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Tyler Carender was sentenced in federal court today to 10 years in prison for damaging and destroying buildings at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church and Oak Crest Middle School in Encinitas on three separate occasions in the fall of 2016, by means of fire and an explosive device.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Tuesday, Oct. 16, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, in partnership with the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, invites the public to attend a free, 45-minute program at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, 200 East Martin Luther King Boulevard, Chattanooga, TN 37403.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: International Falls, MN - Voyageurs National Park staff will be conducting hazard marker and regulatory buoy removal within the park during the month of October. Weather and other variables play a critical role in determining specific dates for this work.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Defrauded employer of more than $700,000 over a five-year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - James Albert Slonaker, of Augusta, West Virginia, admitted today to failing to report to serve his federal sentence, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By EPA 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 Commerce 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 DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Justin Michael Hannah, age 39, of Hanahan, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). United States...
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 Health hearing on “Better Data and Better Outcomes: Reducing Maternal Mortality in the US:"
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Mississippi Nurse Practitioner and Clinic Owner Sentenced to Prison for Role in Compounding Pharmacy Scheme to Defraud Tricare.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - An Arizona man had his initial appearance in federal court today on charges related to the sexual assault of a woman at a Laughlin resort and casino on the Fort Mohave Indian Reservation, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: If Deemed an Armed Career Criminal, Defendant Faces Enhanced Sentence of Not Less Than 15 Years to Life Imprisonment.
By DOE 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 Commerce 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: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that KEITH A. JAMES, age 28, of New Orleans, was sentenced yesterday to 188 months imprisonment to be followed by a 5 year term of supervised release, by U.S. District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman after being convicted of possession of a firearm by a felon.
By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), passed ten bipartisan measures, including bills to condemn the crisis in Venezuela, counter Iranian destabilization of Iraq, and combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria globally.
