News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Medford woman was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for fraudulently receiving Social Security disability benefits, Medicare, MassHealth and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar requesting a briefing on the Trump Administration’s initiative to end the HIV epidemic in America. President Trump announced an ambitious goal of a 75 percent reduction in new HIV infections in five years and at least 90 percent reduction in ten years.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Congratulations to both Representative Rodgers as the new lead Republican, and to Representative Schakowsky as the new Chair for the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on Feb. 26, 2019, Felice Michael Giorgetti, 39, of Huntington Beach, California, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute 50 kilograms or more of marijuana. Giorgetti pleaded guilty to that charge in November of 2018. Following the prison term, Giorgetti will serve three years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Danurell Blair, age 40, of Anderson, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Theresa L. Springmann after pleading guilty to 2 counts of Bank Robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today formally introduced the Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act, which protects an area of approximately 1 million acres north and south of Grand Canyon National Park from new mineral extraction activities. Today’s introduction falls on the hundredth...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: More than 25 defendants apprehended in connection with OCDETF “Operation Flat Rate" - a methamphetamine trafficking investigation in Wichita Falls that netted 25 defendants in the summer of 2018 - have been sentenced, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Burlington, VT - The U.S. Marshals Service arrested a fugitive wanted by the Winooski Police Department. Trent Beayon, 18, of Burlington, was wanted by the Winooski Police Department for Assault with a deadly weapon and Burglary that took place in December 2018. Beayon allegedly brandished a Taser and...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) sent a letter to the Director of the Centers for Disease...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 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 “EPA Enforcement: Taking the Environmental Cop off the Beat:"
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening statement at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on “Protecting Consumer Privacy in the Era of Big Data:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man was sentenced today to three years in prison for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute 50 kilograms or more of marijuana from California to Virginia and his involvement in laundering the marijuana proceeds.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) sent a letter to the Director of the Centers for Disease...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Congratulations to both Representative Rodgers as the new lead Republican, and to Representative Schakowsky as the new Chair for the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Defendant Admitted Creating Twitter and Facebook Accounts For People He Believed Were Supporters of ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Jeffery Jermaine Joe, age 42, of Camden, South Carolina, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine, and crack cocaine. Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson accepted Joe’s guilty plea and will sentence him after receiving and reviewing a presentencing report prepared by the United States Probation Office.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 26, 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 “EPA Enforcement: Taking the Environmental Cop off the Beat:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - David Jah and Kristopher Alexis-Clark were charged with conspiracy to commit arson, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF") Special Agent in Charge Rayfield Roundtree, and Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI") Special Agent in Charge John Bennett. Alexis-Clark also was charged with attempted arson and possession of a destructive device.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: PIKE COUNTY, Ohio - Area high school students recently toured EM’s former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant as part of an annual educational outreach with Ohio University.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kevin Hammond, 26, of Suitland, Md., was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for an armed carjacking in the Ivy City neighborhood of Northeast Washington in which he pistol-whipped the victim so violently that the gun broke into two pieces. He then fled from police before being captured a short time later at a construction site.
