News from February 2019
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today requesting information and documents related to the FCC’s current workload, the work of its bureaus and offices, and the FCC’s interactions with the public through its handling of consumer complaints and Freedom of Information Act requests.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today requesting information and documents related to the FCC’s current workload, the work of its bureaus and offices, and the FCC’s interactions with the public through its handling of consumer complaints and Freedom of Information Act requests.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: OAKLAND - Susan Elizabeth Kyle was sentenced this morning to 24 months in prison for embezzlement of money from a labor organization by an officer, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr., U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury indicted George David and Linda Nguyen with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and substantive mail fraud, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation, Special Agent in Charge John Bennett.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced today they will co-host a technical conference on Security Investments for Energy Infrastructure to discuss security practices to protect energy infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Randy Holmes, 28, of Rockingham, Vermont, was sentenced on Jan. 18, 2019, to 54 months imprisonment by United States District Court Chief Judge Geoffrey Crawford, in U.S. District Court in Burlington, Vermont. Judge Crawford...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Diligent Efforts of Federal, State, Local, and Tribal Drug Task Force Officers bearing fruit.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a man and woman from Pittsburgh were sentenced last week for transporting cocaine through Calcasieu Parish.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Florence, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that John Henry Johnson, age 68, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was convicted by a federal jury after three days of trial during the lapse in government appropriations. The jury found Johnson guilty of one count of...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) reintroduced the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act (HR 946) in the House of Representatives to stop abusive robocall practices.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today,House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah)commended President Trump’s nomination of David Bernhardt to Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI).
By EPA Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today requesting information and documents related to the FCC’s current workload, the work of its bureaus and offices, and the FCC’s interactions with the public through its handling of consumer complaints and Freedom of Information Act requests.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Jeremy David Grove, 30, of Greenville, South Carolina, and Jaspal Singh Grewall, 40, of Anaheim, California, have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a marijuana distribution and money laundering conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that a complaint has been filed against a Madison, Wisconsin resident for sexual exploitation of a child to produce a visual depiction. Bryan Rogers, 31, was charged in a complaint filed in U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: The former treasurer of Jackson County, Kentucky, pleaded guilty today to devising a scheme to defraud the Jackson County Fiscal Court of over $160,000 and to misusing the identity of a Jackson County employee to facilitate her theft.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced today they will co-host a technical conference on Security Investments for Energy Infrastructure to discuss security practices to protect energy infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: OAKLAND - Ray Lee Howard was sentenced today to 92 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr., U.S. District Judge, handed down the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: FLORENCE, S.C. - United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that John Henry Johnson, 68, of Myrtle Beach, was convicted by a federal jury after three days of trial during the lapse in government appropriations. The jury found Johnson guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin and two counts of the attempted distribution of heroin in January and February of 2017. Johnson faces up to 30 years in federal prison as a result of these convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Detroit, MI - The U.S. Marshals Service Detroit Fugitive Apprehension Team (DFAT) is requesting the public’s assistance with the location of a woman wanted for the brutal murder of her boyfriend in Melvindale, Michigan, on or about Sept. 29, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service today announced $748,298 in grants from the American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) to help protect 72 acres of America’s battlefields in Virginia threatened with damage or destruction by urban and suburban development. These grants will be used to acquire portions of the Fisher’s Hill and Opequon Battlefields; which are both significant Civil War Battlefields.
