News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Charges Include Firearm Possession, Bribery, And Mortgaged Cattle.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration announced today the expansion of its TSA Pre✓® expedited screening program to Azul Airlines, bringing the number of airlines participating in TSA Pre✓® to 73 domestic and international carriers.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (VA-03), and Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (MA-01) sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar urging the Department to withdraw a proposal that would severely undermine civil rights protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary Mnuchin: In the past, I have raised concerns regarding the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ (CFIUS) decision-making process, most notably with respect to its approval of the Uranium One transaction where the Obama administration ceded some U.S. uranium production...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: 1.2 Kilos of Fentanyl Seized. HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Huntington has returned a six count superseding indictment charging Steven Dale McCallister, 45, and his father, Larry McCallister, 76, a retired Cabell County Deputy Sheriff...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today the launch of the National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC). The new initiative will assist with the development of advanced nuclear energy technologies by harnessing the world-class capabilities of the DOE national laboratory system.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A New Orleans man was sentenced today to more than 24 years in prison for production of child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (VA-03), and Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (MA-01) sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar urging the Department to withdraw a proposal that would severely undermine civil rights protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former Ohio university professor was sentenced in federal court today for traveling to Kansas City, Missouri, to engage in sexual activity with a person whom he believed to be a 14-year-old runaway.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed rule to require health warnings with color images for cigarette packages and advertisements...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: CONTACT: Barbara Burns. PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tyler Craig Anderson, 29, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to conspiracy to transfer firearms purchased outside...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Nathaniel Griffin, 29, today pleaded guilty to using unlawful force on an inmate while Griffin was serving as a correctional officer with the Tennessee Department of Corrections, announced Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee D. Michael Dunavant, and FBI-Memphis Special Agent in Charge M.A. Myers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: A former Chief Financial Officer of 1 Global Capital, LLC has been charged in connection with a $330 million securities fraud scheme, related to a commercial payday loan business that operated from early 2014 through July 2018, that impacted more than 3,600 investors in 42 different states.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: STONEWALL, TEXAS - Make plans to join Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park and Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site in celebrating the 111th anniversary of President Johnson’s birth. At 10:00 am on Tuesday, Aug. 27, the National Park Service will host the annual wreath-laying ceremony...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A man from El Dorado was indicted Wednesday on charges that even though he already was a registered sex offender he produced and distributed child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - ManTech Advanced Systems International, Inc., a federal government contractor located in Herndon, has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle civil fraud allegations that ManTech falsely represented that its principal manager of a contract for security services at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had a Top Secret clearance.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) announced the Committee has served subpoenas on Corey Lewandowski and Rick Dearborn for public testimony on Sept. 17, 2019. These witnesses were involved in President Trump’s extensive efforts to obstruct the Special Counsel’s investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury today indicted Stephen Lyle Orback, age 64, on the federal charge of making threatening communications, specifically multiple telephone calls threatening a synagogue.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 15, 2019
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed rule to require health warnings with color images for cigarette packages and advertisements...
By State Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) issued the following statement about China’s threats of military intervention against protesters in Hong Kong...
