News from February 2019
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) held the hearing to examine “S. 383, the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies Act, and the State of Current Technologies that Reduce, Capture, and Use Carbon Dioxide." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement after the Democrats introduced their Medicare for All bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for drug and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Harold Blackwolf Jr., 35, of Warm Springs, Oregon, pleaded guilty today to two counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of possession of a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former policy analyst for the District of Columbia Department of Human Services (DHS) pled guilty today to a federal charge stemming from a scheme in which he collected more than $400,000 in fraudulent benefits meant for needy District residents.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the importance of diversity and inclusion in the technology...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on “Confronting a Growing Public Health Threat: Measles Outbreaks in the U.S.:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOEL CRUZ, 36, of Meriden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 63 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the importance of diversity and inclusion in the technology...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Port Vue, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Brunswick, GA - Six federal inmates face having more time added to their prison sentences after lewdly exposing themselves to prison staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: On Feb. 28, 2019 at 12: 0 pm, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, led by Subcommittee Chairman Steve Cohen (D-TN), will hold a hearing on the National Emergencies Act of 1976. The hearing will examine President Donald Trump’s recent national emergency ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan today announced that Marcus Adside, 30, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine and butyryl fentanyl, and possession of firearms in furtherance of a...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today the convictions of TIMMY SCOTT a/k/a “TIMOTHY SCOTT," a 24-year-old resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and KADEEM BURDEN, a 23-year-old resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. SCOTT and BURDEN were indicted by a federal grand jury on Nov. 29, 2017 and charged with felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-Harlem resident Tristen Jace Gone, who admitted hitting his domestic partner, was sentenced today to three years in federal prison and two years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to misusing a Social Security number.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A federal grand jury in Corpus Christi has returned an indictment against two local men for multiple felonies, including carjacking and weapons charges, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Belle Fourche, South Dakota, woman convicted of Theft of Government Property, Supplemental Security Income Benefits Fraud, and False Statement was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Representatives from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the 25th Judicial District Attorney General and the Hardeman County Sheriff today announced a $24,000 reward, in a renewed effort to gain additional information about a 1998 unsolved murder in Hardeman County.
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: We write to urge the Department of State to make a clear determination regarding the crimes that were committed by the Burmese military and security forces against the Rohingya as detailed in the Department’s August 2018 summary report, “Documentation of Atrocities in Northern Rakhine...
