News from December 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released the following statement regarding the release of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Special Compliance Personnel Program Annual Report.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md. - More than 200 staff at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) were honored last week for their work supporting U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss - John Robert Beck, 55, of Madison, pled guilty today before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan to possessing a firearm after having been previously convicted of a felony crime, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: Scranton, PA - Today, U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Miles Singleton - a 21-year old Moosic man.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUCILO CABRERA, 46, of Bronx, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 135 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a kidnapping and extortion scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey D. Hill (619) 546-7924.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. -On Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019, Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney will hold a hearing on the need for comprehensive national paid family and medical leave in the United States and policies to improve access across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - An methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl trafficker was sentenced to 92 months in prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Anton Marcel Jeffries, 25, of Akron, Ohio, previously pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Lemar Sheldon Conliffe, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 72 months incarceration for a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston businessman has pleaded guilty to making illegal political contributions in the names of others to campaign committees for U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in 2017, announced First Assistant U.S. AttorneyTim S. Braley along with Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: 10:00 a.m. 1300 Longworth House Office Building. WITNESS LIST. Mr. Ken Isley, Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Mr. Trey Hicks, Director, Office of Food for Peace, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: On Nov. 16, 2019, 105 teams from colleges and universities across 32 states and Puerto Rico participated in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) fifth CyberForce Competition™ sponsored by DOE’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUCILO CABRERA, 46, of Bronx, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 135 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a kidnapping and extortion scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: Robert Dear Indicted by Federal Grand Jury for 2015 Planned Parenthood Clinic Shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today that Senior U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Otis Brown, III, 18, to 8 years and one day in federal prison to be followed by 5 years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system. Brown was also ordered to pay $61,154.00 in restitution. Brown previously pleaded guilty to a Hobbs Act robbery; that is, robbing a business involved in interstate commerce and brandishing a firearm during the robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: President Trump late Friday endorsed a Senate drug-pricing bill that would cap what seniors pay at the pharmacy counter and require drug makers to rebate Medicare if prices rise faster than inflation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Aric Matthew Salazar, 36, formerly of Clovis, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison, for receipt and distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2019
News Release: An Akron man was sentenced to 355 months in federal prison for shooting at three law enforcement officers as well as attempting to carjack two people and possessing methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 8, 2019
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today announced they have reached a bipartisan, bicameral agreement on legislation to lower what Americans pay out of pocket for their health care.
