News from February 2019
By EPA Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.’s (D-NJ) remarks as prepared today for a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Preserving an Open Internet for Consumers, Small Businesses, and Free Speech:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Charles Weber, 63, of Snyder, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of making and subscribing a false tax return, was sentenced to serve 30 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. Weber was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $190,547 to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 11 counts of Wire Fraud and Money Laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Gregory Lorson Ordered to Serve Five Years in Federal Prison and to Pay $3,545,383 in Restitution.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOE Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.’s (D-NJ) remarks as prepared today for a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Preserving an Open Internet for Consumers, Small Businesses, and Free Speech:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 11 counts of Wire Fraud and Money Laundering.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, held a public hearing to examine and stress the importance of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) investment in energy innovation. The hearing included a discussion of the changing...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Atlanta, GA - The U.S. Marshals-led Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force is currently searching for a man wanted for the murder of his mother in DeKalb County, Georgia, after removing an ankle monitor and failing to appear and surrender himself to authorities for a previous conviction in Cobb County.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement following the death of former Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Oglala, South Dakota, man convicted of three counts of Involuntary Manslaughter was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, raised concerns that the government shutdown has delayed the dairy safety improvements from the 2018 Farm Bill, jeopardizing dairy farmers’ ability to access ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement following the death of former Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W Boyle sentenced Cheyne Martin Potrafka, 35, of Burgaw to 220 months’ imprisonment, followed by a lifetime of supervised release. POTRAFKA pled guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography on Nov. 1, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Bedford, Mass. man was arrested late last night on a federal arrest warrant in Key West, Fla., and charged in connection with a kidnapping that began in Concord, Mass., and ended in Connecticut.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Two South Florida doctors were arrested on charges related to the unlawful dispensing of opioids.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement on the death of former Congressman John Dingell, Jr., who passed away tonight
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - Christopher Tersigni, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration Special Operations Division and Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the extradition of Haji Abdul Satar Abdul Manaf, aka “Haji...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: UKIAH, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments to help develop off-highway vehicle grant proposals to the California State Parks Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division (OHMVR) during an open house meeting on Feb. 13, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., at the Ukiah Field Office, 2550 North State Street, Suite 2, Ukiah.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Brazilian national was indicted and charged with illegally reentering the United States after deportation.
