News from December 2019
By DOL Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), and Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate is unconstitutional...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: As 2019 comes to an end, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) reviewed the Subcommittee’s oversight work of the last year. In total, the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee held 15 hearings and the Committee sent 150 letters to the Trump Administration, companies and other entities as part of Committee investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - A federal jury in Statesville has convicted Thomas Arthur Rittenhouse, 75, of Boone, N.C. of transporting and possessing child pornography, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell Sr. presided over the trial.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - As we approach the end of 2019, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) highlighted the Subcommittee’s work to protect Americans from dangerous consumer products, promote travel and tourism and combat fraud, safeguard consumer privacy both online and offline, and more. The Subcommittee held 12 hearings, two markups and passed eight bills this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury in Austin indicted a Nigerian citizen for masquerading as a representative of the Texas State Securities Board to steal money from victims of a previous fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs of the FBI’s San Antonio Division, and Texas State Securities Board Commissioner Travis J. Iles.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Turner woman was sentenced today in federal court in Portland for embezzling from an employee benefit plan, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Texas v. United States striking down the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate and throwing the rest of law into jeopardy...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Jonathan D. Larsen, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), announced today FRANCIS J. O’REILLY, a Carmel attorney, pled guilty to failure to pay over payroll taxes and tax evasion for the calendar year 2015. O’REILLY pled guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa Margaret Smith.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: SEATTLE, Wash. - A 40-year-old Seattle man was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to seven years in prison for selling thousands of doses of fentanyl on various encrypted websites, announced Special Agent in Charge Debra Parker of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Project Guardian successes in the Southern District of Indiana.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: As 2019 comes to an end, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) reviewed the Subcommittee’s oversight work of the last year. In total, the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee held 15 hearings and the Committee sent 150 letters to the Trump Administration, companies and other entities as part of Committee investigations.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, criticized the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on its decision to rescind the Commission’s longstanding policy opposing mandatory arbitration clauses because...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Marvin Parker, 61, of Silver Spring, Maryland, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for paying more than $40,000 in bribes to two Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) employees, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu announced.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, today announced her support for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). As Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, Stabenow worked closely with other Democratic leaders in the House and Senate to modify the agreement proposed by President Trump to include strong trade protections and enforcement tools that are good for Michigan and good for American agriculture.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that James Edwards Gamble, age 42, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been sentenced to 63 months in prison following his conviction of possessing firearms by a convicted felon. The Court further sentenced Gamble to 3 years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment and ordered that the firearms involved be forfeited.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) are accepting applications for new members to serve on seven agricultural trade advisory committees.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Wendy W. Berger today sentenced Alejandro Rosales-Gonzalez (36, Mexico) to three years in federal prison for illegal reentry after deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr today announced the launch of Operation Relentless Pursuit, an initiative aimed at combating violent crime in seven of America’s most violent cities - including the combined metropolitan area of Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas - through a surge in federal resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Operation Relentless Pursuit, an initiative aimed at combating violent crime in seven American cities - including Milwaukee - through a surge in federal resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY CARILLO, also known as “Boogie," 21, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 125 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for a kidnapping and violent assault he committed with four other members of the Almighty Latin Kings Nation (“Latin Kings").
