News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Joshua Simard, 31, of Auburn, was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for drug trafficking and firearms offenses, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: $1.1 Million will support efforts to combat drugs and crime in the Eastern District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jason Steven Kokinda, of Hammonton, New Jersey, was indicted today on a sex offender registry charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Bryan L. Brewer (44, Ponte Vedra) to five years in federal prison for wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering. Brewer also was ordered to pay $8.9 million in restitution.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - DOE recently presented a Level IV federal project director (FPD) certification to an employee for the first time in three years.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - With the first year of the 116th Congress coming to a close, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) highlighted the Subcommittee’s work to restore net neutrality, combat the robocall epidemic, secure America’s telecommunications supply chain, fix faulty broadband maps, and more. The Subcommittee held 12 hearings, three markups, and passed 11 bills this year.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statements on Energy and Commerce provisions included in H.R. 1865, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A German citizen convicted of two counts of murder in the first degree was removed from the U.S. Monday, pursuant to a final order of removal, by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Democratic House and Senate Committee leaders sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today reiterating their March 2019 request for information and documents concerning Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma’s lavish use of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds on private consultants who were brought on to polish her public image.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Democratic House and Senate Committee leaders sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today reiterating their March 2019 request for information and documents concerning Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma’s lavish use of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds on private consultants who were brought on to polish her public image.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a business meeting to consider S. 3051, America's Conservation Enhancement Act; Robert J. Feitel, to be Inspector General of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and 19 General Services Administration resolutions. Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee passed their bipartisan legislation, S. 2695, the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) Act of 2019, and a package of lands bills affecting acreage in Tennessee and Virginia.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statements on Energy and Commerce provisions included in H.R. 1865, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Brian McIver, 49, of Hattiesburg, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle A. Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on health care provisions included in H.R. 1865, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA - A Columbia Falls man who admitted soliciting sexually explicit images of a minor girl through his Facebook account and mobile phone pleaded guilty on Monday to sexual exploitation of a child, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that TYSHAWN RAYVON REAMS, 36, of Scotland Neck, NC, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan. REAMS was sentenced to 88 months imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - With the first year of the 116th Congress coming to a close, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) highlighted the Subcommittee’s work to restore net neutrality, combat the robocall epidemic, secure America’s telecommunications supply chain, fix faulty broadband maps, and more. The Subcommittee held 12 hearings, three markups, and passed 11 bills this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Man Suspected in Las Vegas Murder Earlier This Year Arrested in Los Angeles.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following opening statement at a business meeting to consider legislation regarding the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) and a package of lands bills.
