News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Federal, State, Local Law Enforcement in New Mexico Team up to Recruit Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Jose Rodriguez’s Organization Trafficked Heroin, Crack and Powder Cocaine, Marijuana and Firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Appear.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - An Italian national was extradited and made an initial appearance in federal court in Boston yesterday in connection with various drug charges related to trafficking cocaine onboard maritime vessels.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 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) wrote today to Acting Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Ann Marie Buerkle to reassume the Committee’s traditional role of oversight over the Commission.
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) released the following statement strongly condemning the deaths of two Venezuelan civilians attempting to deliver humanitarian aid across Venezuela’s southern border with Brazil.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 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) released the following statements after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) circulated its draft 2019 Broadband Deployment Report, ...
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) released the following statement on reports that the Administration will leave 200 American troops in Syria, retreating from a full withdrawal.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the Trump Administration’s draft final Title X rule...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, DC –The U.S. Department of Energy and Israel’s Ministry of Energy along with the Israel Innovation Authority have announced the selection of the U.S.-Israel Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation to manage the newly established U.S.-Israel Energy Center. The U.S. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Byung Il Bang, a/k/a Peter Bang, age 59, of Germantown, Maryland, today to four years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for federal wire fraud and tax charges, in connection with a scheme in which he embezzled over...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man pleaded guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 29 indictments charging 36 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: COLUMBIA, South Carolina ---- The United States Attorney's Office is sponsoring its 16th Annual Project Sentry Logo/Meme Contest. The statewide contest welcomes students to illustrate how we can help prevent gun violence in our schools by designing a logo or meme for use on upcoming Project Sentry publications.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the Trump Administration’s draft final Title X rule...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Texarkana, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Patrick Taylor, age 32, of Texarkana, Arkansas, and Bruce Witherspoon, age 34, of Washington, Arkansas, were sentenced yesterday. Taylor was sentenced to 100 months in federal prison followed...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy applauds the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) agreement to provide a path forward for consideration of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals pending before the Commission. Yesterday, FERC approved Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass LNG export project in Cameron Parish, Louisiana by applying a new approach for consideration of direct greenhouse gas emissions from LNG facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal jury has convicted a 50-year-old internal medicine doctor and 47-year-old hospital owner of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, 17 counts of health care fraud and three counts of money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick and Assistant Attorney General Brian A.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: James Levering, 46, of Winnebago was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for domestic assault by a habitual offender. The Honorable Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Levering to 25 months’ imprisonment. After his release from prison, Levering will begin a three-year term of supervised release.
