News from January 2019
By DOL Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has developed a collection of compliance assistance resources to address falls in the workplace, the leading cause of worker fatality in the construction industry. OSHA’s goal is to promote awareness...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) urging him to seek additional documents and testimony from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Mr. Cohen before his scheduled public testimony.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Samione Monay Jones, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today requesting he provide an emergency briefing to Committee staff on why the FCC has yet to end wireless carriers’ unauthorized disclosure...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today called on the Department of Labor to ensure state unemployment insurance (UI) programs are responding to the needs of furloughed federal workers facing financial uncertainty as the Trump shutdown continues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - After finding the Mongols outlaw motorcycle gang guilty of racketeering offenses last month, a federal jury today determined that the criminal organization should forfeit the logos worn by members, finding that there was a direct connection between the gang’s crimes and the trademarked logos that prosecutors said formed the core of the motorcycle gang’s identity.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: By Sunday, Jan. 13, Yellowstone National Park will provide additional basic services during the lapse of government appropriations. National Park Service (NPS) staff will.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Charles F. Martin, 57, and Sherri L. Atkins, 59, pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy to commit bank fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371. Martin pleaded guilty on Jan. 10, 2019, before Magistrate Judge Michael D. Nelson. Atkins, before Judge Nelson, pleaded guilty today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today requesting he provide an emergency briefing to Committee staff on why the FCC has yet to end wireless carriers’ unauthorized disclosure...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, Dr. Kenneth G. Edwards, 65, a resident of Columbus, Georgia and previously a practicing chiropractor in Phenix City, Alabama, received a 37-month for conspiring to commit wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Dr. Edwards...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Waylon Blackbird, 28, was sentenced in federal court today in Omaha, Nebraska, for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Blackbird to 36 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After completing his term of imprisonment, Blackbird will begin a three-year term of supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: The House today approved, 240-179, legislation to reopen the Department of the Interior, the National Park Service, and the Environmental Protection Agency. The bill ensures that America’s National Parks can fully reopen and critical EPA operations can resume. It is the fourth bipartisan Senate bill that the House has passed this week to reopen key parts of the government and stop some of the most serious harms of the Trump Shutdown.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Today federal authorities arrested Julio Rodríguez-Febres and Angel Luis Olmos-Vargas, participants in the shooting which occurred on Three Kings Day in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico. The Complaint charges Julio Rodriguez-Febrez with one count for possession of a firearm by a convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of McKees Rocks, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal robbery laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: SONORA, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today revised recreation area winter operations at New Melones Lake beginning January 22. These seasonal changes allow Reclamation to perform facility maintenance and enable natural resource recovery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - In four separate cases, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agents, working under the scope of the Puerto Rico Crimes Against Children Task Force, arrested Friday in San Juan, Puerto Rico four men charged with possession and distribution of child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Chair-designate Betty McCollum delivered the following remarks in support of H.R. 266, the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. The legislation is a bipartisan bill to reopen federal agencies and ensure that America's National Parks can fully reopen.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey delivered the following remarks in support of H.R. 266, the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. The legislation is a bipartisan bill to reopen federal agencies and ensure that America's National Parks can fully reopen.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, discussed trade, health and tax issues as well as his top priorities for the Senate Finance Committee this morning on Squawk Box on CNBC and Daybreak on Bloomberg TV. Video of the interviews can be found here and here and below. Grassley’s agenda for the Senate Finance Committee for the 116th Congress can be found here.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today requesting he provide an emergency briefing to Committee staff on why the FCC has yet to end wireless carriers’ unauthorized disclosure...
