News from February 2019
By DOE Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 10:00 am in the John D. Dingell...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: On Feb. 15, 2019, a doctor who previously worked in Stuart, Florida, was convicted by a federal jury of committing repeated acts of health care fraud.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 18, 2019
News Release: Today, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross formally submitted to President Donald J. Trump the results of the Department of Commerce’s investigation into the effect of imports of automobiles and automobile parts on the national security of the United States.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2019
Release: Jim Kulikowski was appointed to the Coordinator position in February 2019. Prior to that, he was a Senior Advisor in the Office of U.S Foreign Assistance Resources assigned to the Office of the Secretary. Between 2011 and 2017, he was part of the House Appropriations Committee front office as Chief Counsel ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2019
News Release: New Orleans Man Arrested in Connection with Hancock Whitney Bank Robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2019
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - On the afternoon of 2/16/2019 Zion Dispatch received a report of a 34 year old male visitor from Arizona whose leg was stuck in quicksand. He was located approximately 3 hours up the Left Fork of the North Creek, also known as The Subway route from bottom-up. His leg was buried up to...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 16, 2019
News Release: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Manila special agents, the HSI Manila Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit (TCIU), and HSI Boston coordinated a real-time surveillance operation in the U.S. and the Philippines, which led to the arrests of two...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2019
Release: MUNICH, GERMANY – This week, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette attended the Munich Security Conference 2019, discussing global security issues and policies with diplomatic leaders from the international security community.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2019
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier yesterday, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Richard Jacobellis was sentenced by United States District Judge Joanna Seybert to an agreed upon 16 years of imprisonment, to be followed by three years’ supervised release, for distributing heroin. When Jacobellis pleaded guilty in June 2018, he admitted that heroin he distributed caused the death of 20-year-old Nicholas Weber in 2016 and serious bodily injury to another in 2015.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: On Feb. 15, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen released the following statement on President Trump’s intent to nominate Chad F. Wolf to be the Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy and Plans at the Department of Homeland Security: “I want to congratulate Chad on his nomination to be ...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Washington - Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen released the following statement on the signing of the legislation that funds the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and on the President’s declaration of a national emergency: “The legislation passed by both chambers of Congress ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2019 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use Dr. Elinore McCance-Katz today announced USDA and HHS will partner to create addiction recovery transitional housing in rural communities.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Feb. 15, 2019) - U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the United States, together with Canada, submitted a counter notification in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Committee on Agriculture (COA) on India’s market price support for five pulses: chickpeas, pigeon peas, black matpe, mung beans, and lentils.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Feb. 15, 2019) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today issued the following statement regarding President Donald J. Trump’s signing of legislation that funds the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and declaration of a national emergency at the southern border: “I ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday against the former president and the former chief legal officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, a publicly traded Fortune 200 technology services company based in Teaneck, New Jersey, in connection with an alleged foreign bribery scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: The Honorable Judge Elizabeth Foote, of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, sentenced defendant Codi Dodge, 35, the former Deputy Chief of Investigations for the St. Martinville Police Department (SMPD), to serve nine years in prison on four felony counts related to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: A Fresno, California man pleaded guilty today to using the internet to coerce and entice a minor into producing child pornography. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger of the Eastern District of Virginia, Assistant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: A former U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) official was sentenced today for demanding and receiving bribes from three for-profit schools in exchange for enrolling disabled military veterans in those schools and facilitating over $2 million in payments from the VA using the veterans’ federal benefits. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the State of Connecticut through the Connecticut Secretary of the State to help ensure compliance with federal law regarding maintenance of voter registration lists. Under the agreement, Connecticut will coordinate its statewide voter registration database with Connecticut Department of Public Health records to identify registered voters who have died.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: A tax return preparer operating in Irving, Texas, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to defraud the United States and to aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and ...
