News from February 2019
By State Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - House Foreign Affairs lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) released the following statement on yesterday’s appointment of Elan Carr as the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., together with Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn, Central Police Services (CPS) Commissioner James Janciewicz, and Daniel Rinaldo, from the New York New Jersey High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), announced today a first-of-its-kind...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $35 million in awards for 12 projects that find new ways to harness medium-voltage electricity for applications in industry, transportation, on the grid and beyond. The selected projects are part of ARPA-E’s Building Reliable Electronics to Achieve Kilovolt Effective Ratings Safely (BREAKERS ) program, as well as the latest OPEN+ cohort, Kilovolt Devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Robert Casdorph entered a guilty plea to the felony offense of Mail Fraud, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Casdorph, 58, of Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia faces up to 20 years of incarceration when he is be sentenced on May 1, 2019. He will also be required...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A U.S. Customs and Border Protection supervisory officer has been arrested on federal charges alleging that he engaged in the business of unlawfully selling firearms without a license and sold an illegal short-barreled rifle to an undercover investigator.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 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), and Representative Jason Smith (R-MO-8) introduced the Fairness for Every Driver Act. This legislation will save billions in taxpayer funds by ending the federal electric ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Former Clinton Township Trustee Dean Reynolds, 51, of Clinton Township, Michigan, was sentenced today to seventeen years in prison and ordered to pay $15,000 in fines based on his convictions at trial on four counts of bribery conspiracy and ten counts of accepting bribes, in connection with millions of dollars in township garbage, towing, and engineering contracts, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 6, 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 will hold a business meeting to organize the Committee for the new Congress.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: On the opening day of the 116th Congress, House Republicans brought a powerful, but simple measure to the floor that called on this body to legislate on what we all agree needs to be done - locking in protections for patients with pre-existing conditions. Unfortunately, House Democrats voted it down.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL) released the following statement today on the Department of Energy’s (DOE) proposed rules to rollback lightbulb efficiency standards and to revise the Process Rule, which guides energy efficiency standard setting...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Two Parsons, West Virginia residents have admitted to their roles in a methamphetamine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging EMERSON YUBIMY HERRERA-ALFARO, age 19, of El Salvador, JUAN ANGEL MURILLO RUIZ, age 34, of Honduras, and MARIO ALBERTO LLAMAS-HERNANDEZ, age 37, of Mexico, with Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON -The Justice Department today announced that PHH Mortgage Corporation (PHH) has agreed to pay $750,000 to six servicemembers to resolve allegations that it violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) by unlawfully foreclosing on their homes without obtaining the required court orders.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: First, I want to recognize and thank the representatives from multiple federal, state, and local law enforcement partners that are here today as part of our announcement of two recent criminal indictments. Thank you to the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Department...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the T-Mobile and Sprint merger on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019 at 10 am in...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL) released the following statement today on the Department of Energy’s (DOE) proposed rules to rollback lightbulb efficiency standards and to revise the Process Rule, which guides energy efficiency standard setting...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: HOBBS, N.M. - Acting Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today announced that Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) state offices generated $1.1 billion from oil and gas lease sales in calendar year 2018, an amount nearly equal to the BLM’s budget for Fiscal Year 2018, and the highest-grossing...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the T-Mobile and Sprint merger on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019 at 10 am in...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Union General Hospital (“UGH"), located in Blairsville, Georgia, has agreed to pay $5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted today in federal court in Boston for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
