News from February 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 583, the Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement (PIRATE) Act, introduced by Reps. Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman was sentenced today to 72 months for a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Amanda Hatfield, 26, previously pled guilty plea to an indictment charging her with possession with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. The Huntington Police Department conducted the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A Decatur, Ill., man, Cornell D.A. Johnson, 22, appeared in federal court in Urbana today for arraignment on charges that he sexually exploited children and possessed child pornography. At today’s hearing, a trial date of April 29, 2019, was set for Johnson.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 525, the Health Care Fraud Prevention Task Force Act, which was introduced by Walden and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), by voice vote.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 25, 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), released the following statement on the American Action Forum's (AAF) release of its comprehensive cost analysis of the Green New Deal proposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man was sentenced today to 80 months in federal prison for acting as a courier to deliver more than three pounds of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 583, the Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement (PIRATE) Act, introduced by Reps. Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Nathan Bryce Moton, age 44, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 40 months imprisonment and 4 years of supervised release for Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former bank teller who paid back the money she embezzled from a Leavenworth savings and loan was sentenced Monday to two years on federal supervised release, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man appeared in federal court in Worcester today to face an illegal firearm possession charge.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) is entering the final phase of the project to completely rehabilitate the roads in Fort Dupont Park. Beginning Monday, March 11, the National Park Service will close portions of Fort Davis Drive to drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists. This work follows the successful rehabilitation of Fort Dupont Drive that was completed in fall 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Honduran man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for his leadership role in the Los Cachrios drug trafficking organization (DTO), a large-scale Honduran cocaine trafficking group.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 583, the Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement (PIRATE) Act, introduced by Reps. Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Sean Michael Placko, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 60 months for a firearms conspiracy, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Shayne Kniss, 43, formerly of Lake Oswego, Oregon, was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for defrauding clients of his investment firm, Iris Capital Management Group, LLC. Kniss was also ordered to pay more than $529,000 in restitution to his victims.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 501, the Poison Center Network Enhancement Act of 2019, by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas photographer who posed as a professional modeling photographer and alternative sports sponsor to lure children on the promise of sponsorships pleaded guilty today in federal court in connection to a child sexual exploitation conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - Two members of a prolific transnational, transgenerational drug trafficking organization have pleaded guilty as their trial was set to begin in Victoria federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Raul Beltran Jr., 50, and his son Edward Beltran, 24, both of Rio Grande City, pleaded guilty today as they were set to begin trial before U.S. District Judge John Rainey.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-DE) have asked the Acting Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate whether EPA officials William Wehrum and David Harlow helped reverse the agency’s position in a major enforcement action to favor a client of their former law firm.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. –Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a prize competition to spur innovation in wave energy-powered desalination systems. The Waves to Water Prize will draw upon U.S. innovators to accelerate technology development through a series of contests to demonstrate small, modular, cost-competitive desalination systems that use the power of the ocean to provide potable drinking water to remote coastal and island communities.
