News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Distributed Drugs and Was Present When Another MMP Member Shot a Victim Multiple Times in the Head and Torso Outside a Downtown Baltimore Nightclub.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Man Suspected in Bank Robberies in Two Counties Arrested and Charged by Federal Grand Jury Following Joint Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: DETROIT - Two men from California were sentenced this month for their role in a drug conspiracy that resulted in, what was at the time, the third largest fentanyl seizure in the United States, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Cohoes Mayor Shawn Morse, age 51, was arrested today on an indictment charging him with defrauding his mayoral campaign and supporters by stealing campaign contributions for his personal benefit.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) had the following prepared remarks for an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing on “We’ll Always Have Paris: Filling the Leadership Void Caused by Federal Inaction on Climate Change:"
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump pushed for his son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner, to receive a security clearance despite numerous red flags...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) sent a letter to Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) requesting the committee hold hearings on H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2019, so that the committee can consider several provisions of the bill that fall within its jurisdiction.

By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced the launch of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Versatile Fast Neutron Source, also referred to as the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR), one of the foundational projects specified in the Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act of 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing on “We’ll Always Have Paris: Filling the Leadership Void Caused by Federal Inaction on Climate Change."

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - Troy Cater (30) and David Bell (55), both of St. Petersburg, have pleaded guilty to a money laundering conspiracy. Each faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.

By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Alphonso L. Howard, Jr., age 28, and Javonte J. Johnson, age 22, both of Decatur, Georgia, were indicted yesterday for creating counterfeit checks and then cashing them at banks in Saratoga and Warren Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Coordinated transport of pounds of meth from California to Iowa for distribution.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: A Detroit man charged with production and possession of child pornography was arrested Tuesday following an investigation by the Michigan ICAC and Homeland Security Investigations.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) had the following prepared remarks for an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing on “We’ll Always Have Paris: Filling the Leadership Void Caused by Federal Inaction on Climate Change:"

By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement following President Trump’s departure from the Hanoi Summit with no final agreement between the U.S. and Chairman Kim of North Korea:
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: New national poll finds that 84 percent of Americans endorse federal legislation

By US DOT Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), proudly earned a 100 percent rating on the League of Conversation Voters (LCV) National Environmental Scorecard in his fight for clean air and water and a healthy planet for future generations.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that an Anchorage man has been sentenced to federal prison after he made arrangements with an undercover detective to meet with two fictional minors, whom he believed to be real, to engage in sexual activities.

By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - A South Texas man and his son pleaded guilty Monday to using a racehorse business to conceal a transnational drug trafficking organization with ties to some of Mexico’s biggest drug cartels.