News from February 2019
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce leaders sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb today requesting a briefing on a series of recalls that appear to involve drugs manufactured overseas that may have been contaminated with trace amounts of known carcinogens, which could lead to a shortage of drugs to treat high blood pressure.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce leaders sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb today requesting a briefing on a series of recalls that appear to involve drugs manufactured overseas that may have been contaminated with trace amounts of known carcinogens, which could lead to a shortage of drugs to treat high blood pressure.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a hearing titled “The Invasive Species Threat: Protecting Wildlife, Public Health, and Infrastructure."
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), which oversees the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), sent a letter to TVA Chair of the Board of Directors Richard Howorth asking several questions about tomorrow's vote on the potential phase out and retirement of two coal-fired power plants in Kentucky and Tennessee.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: In a district like mine that gives new meaning to the word “rural," coverage gaps engulf huge areas of the map, in places with as few as one person for every square mile. For Americans in some of these areas, who have been awaiting the promise of broadband for far too long, with the connectivity, educational and economic empowerment it brings, any news on this front is cause for great celebration.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. District Court Judge Francisco A. Besosa sentenced Jonathan Valentin-Santiago to 34 years in prison and Rubén Miró-Cruz to 24 years and six months in prison for their participation in the Hobbs Act robbery that resulted in the murder of a Police of Puerto Rico officer, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Wanted by FBI Denver: High School Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors for Teen Academies.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: NAPLES, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Crown Roofing LLC for exposing employees to fall hazards at two separate residential worksites in Port St. Lucie and Naples, Florida. The Sarasota, Florida-based contractor faces penalties of $265,196.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Steven Weaver, II (38, Tampa) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Weaver had pleaded guilty on Nov. 1, 2018.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Madam Chair, I said it last week, and I’ll say it again: We need to work together to help states stabilize health markets damaged by the ACA, cut out-of-pocket costs, promote access to preventive services, encourage participation in private health insurance, and increase the number of options available through the market.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - An Arizona man who was arrested as part of Project Parkersburg - a major takedown and dismantling of a multi-state drug trafficking organization (DTO) responsible for distributing methamphetamine and heroin -- pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Steven Weaver, II (38, Tampa) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Weaver had pleaded guilty on Nov. 1, 2018.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and committee ranking member Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), praised the Senate's passage of the Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver (WILD) Act.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Strengthening Our Health Care System: Legislation to Reverse ACA Sabotage and Ensure Pre-Existing Conditions Protections:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: An Oakland County financial advisor who pled guilty last September to embezzling over 3.7 million dollars from his clients at UBS Financial Services, was sentenced by Judge Bernard Friedman to 9 years in prison yesterday, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RISHI MALIK, 46, a citizen of India residing in Fairfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to three years of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding the State of Connecticut of more than $5.8 million in taxes due on tobacco products imported into the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Coordinated Multi-National Arrests in Phony Car Sales Scheme Victimizing Banks and Individuals Across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Harvey L. Ireland, 35, of Olney, Illinois, has been sentenced to 188 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, Steven D. Weinhoeft, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Protecting Consumers and Competition: An Examination of the T-Mobile and Sprint Merger:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: St. Louis - Gary Atchley, 54, of Perryville, Missouri, was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Wednesday for wire fraud. He was also ordered to pay $187,252.60 in restitution. He appeared in federal court before U.S. District Henry Autrey.
