News from December 2019
By USDA Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Washington - USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald “DJ" LaVoy today highlighted major accomplishments and investments that are building prosperity and strengthening the nation’s rural businesses and communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A Livingston man who led law enforcement on a vehicle chase before getting arrested after a manhunt was sentenced on Wednesday to 13 years in prison and five years of supervised release for methamphetamine trafficking crimes, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) are calling for bipartisan cooperation from Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats to stop the diversion of 9-1-1 fees for unrelated, non-emergency purposes. In a letter to Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Walden and Latta stress the need to act promptly to address this threat to public safety.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson and House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Chairman Jim Costa released the following statement today following the passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) in the House...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final rule rolling back key portions of the Risk Management Plan updates, also known as the Chemical Disaster Rule...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced Laurent Pierre-Louis (31, Miramar) to five years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Pierre-Louis had pleaded guilty on April 10, 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $20 million in funding to develop technologies to quantify feedstock-related emissions at the field level.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Washington - Throughout 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) continued to deliver on its promise to pursue free, fair and reciprocal trade and open markets around the world for America’s farmers, ranchers, and agribusinesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: A thirty-three count Indictment unsealed today charges City of Taylor Mayor Richard “Rick" Sollars, businessman Shady Awad, and Taylor Community Development Manager Jeffrey Baum with conspiracy to commit bribery in a scheme spanning from 2015 to 2019, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced. The Indictment also charges Sollars and Awad with seven counts of bribery each, and charges Sollars and Baum with 18 counts of Wire Fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement denouncing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) vote to upend states’ clean energy plans by favoring fossil fuels over clean sources of energy...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Today, National Park Service (NPS) South Atlantic-Gulf Regional Director Robert A. Vogel announced the selection of Penelope Del Bene as the new superintendent of Biscayne National Park, located in southern Florida. Del Bene will begin her new assignment in early February.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Kansas, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to distribute more than 450 kilograms of cocaine in the metropolitan area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Marlon Thompson was arraigned yesterday in federal court in Central Islip before United States Magistrate Judge A. Kathleen Tomlinson on an indictment charging him with conspiracy to distribute cocaine base and heroin from April 2018 through May 2019, and distribution of a controlled substance containing fentanyl resulting in the fatal overdose of a Fredrick Koenig of Selden, New York, on Dec. 26, 2018. Thompson was ordered detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: OXFORD - In two separate cases, an Alcorn County man and a Prentiss County man were each sentenced to approximately 20 years in federal prison for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced Laurent Pierre-Louis (31, Miramar) to five years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Pierre-Louis had pleaded guilty on April 10, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an 11-count indictment today against Maurice “Buddy" Shoe, 57, formerly of Palo Cedro, charging him with embezzlement from his employees’ retirement funds and false statements regarding those retirement funds, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Federal agents this morning arrested two Orange County residents on charges stemming from the slaying of a man who was shot in the head and dumped from a boat off the California coast.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Subcommittee Ranking Member Bob Latta (R-OH) sent a letter today to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai in response to the FCC’s recent announcement that the Mobility Fund Phase II (MF II) will be replaced with a new 5G Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: Cody Swinnerton, 25, of Berea, was sentenced to 35 years in prison with 25 years supervised release to follow. He was also ordered to pay $45,900 in special assessments. He previously pleaded guilty on Sept. 10, 2019 to seven counts of Sexual Exploitation of Children, and one count each of Receipt and Possession of Child Pornography after he contacted several children between the ages of 12 and 15 and coerced them into sending him sexually explicit images.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) sent a letter today to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai in response to the FCC’s recent announcement that the Mobility Fund Phase II (MF II) will be replaced with a new 5G Fund.
