News from December 2019
By State Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today issued the following statement on China's threat to sanction U.S. non-governmental organizations in Hong Kong...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Accountability and Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission:"
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - DEA New Jersey Division Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito announced a member of the Grape Street Crips gang was sentenced today to life in prison for murder in aid of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute heroin and other drug crimes.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing titled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for Economy-Wide Deep Decarbonization."
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following remarks at a second Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing on oversight of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this year.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr., Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal and Education & Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott released the following joint statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - An alleged ranking member of the Clan Del Golfo has been extradited to the United States to face numerous drug trafficking and money laundering charges, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Perrye K. Turner and DEA Acting SAC Steven S. Whipple.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ARCHIE MORRIS, age 42, of New Orleans, pled to five counts of arson on Dec. 3, 2019, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, 844(i).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Beckley man was sentenced to federal prison for a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Kendall Cotten, 30, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for possession of heroin with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Dec. 3, 2019, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against Ryan M. Hill (age: 39) of Neopit, which is located on the Menominee Indian Reservation.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) had the following prepared remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for Economy-Wide Deep Decarbonization." This is the seventh hearing in the Committee’s climate change series aimed at developing comprehensive legislation to achieve a 100 percent clean economy by 2050...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Kyetia M. Hines, 36, of Belleville, Illinois, has been sentenced to two years in prison on her.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing titled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for Economy-Wide Deep Decarbonization."
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that today United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON, age 55, of Evergreen, NC, to 21 months imprisonment for bank fraud and 24 months imprisonment for aggravated...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Stoneham man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for drug trafficking involving fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham announced that Sunji Cramer, 40, of Meriden, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: A Portland man was sentenced today in federal court in Portland for possessing child pornography and violating his supervised release, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On December 4, 2019, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey, sentenced Christopher Lee Collins, age 35, of Davenport, to 240 months in prison for receiving child pornography and possessing obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children announced United...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI -United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that Jose Ernesto Vazquez Colon and Abnel Belordo Colon pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle over $1 million into St. Thomas by boat.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) released the following joint statement today announcing the historic investments in Medicare and the search for new cures that will be included in H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act when it goes to the House floor for a vote next week...
