News from July 2019
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $477 million in airport infrastructure grants, the third allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Gary Allen Jimenez, a Heart Butte resident, admitted drug distribution charges today for providing a minor with methamphetamine on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos today raising concerns about fraudulent and deceptive product ratings and reviews on Amazon’s online...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $477 million in airport infrastructure grants, the third allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - Rolando Lopez, 58, has been sentenced to life imprisonment on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Given, Jr., of Lost Creek, West Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand jury today for firearms violations, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last year American consumers were pestered with 47.8 billion robocalls. The Stopping Bad Robocalls Act was introduced by bipartisan leaders in the Energy and Commerce Committee to combat these illegal spam calls. Recently, this legislation passed out of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology with strong bipartisan support.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos today raising concerns about fraudulent and deceptive product ratings and reviews on Amazon’s online...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah), U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) sent two letters. One letter to the Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary David Bernhardt and the other to the House Natural Resources...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Reynaldo Alexis Granados-Vasquez, a/k/a “Fuego," age 23, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, today to 20 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for a kidnapping conspiracy.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last year American consumers were pestered with 47.8 billion robocalls. The Stopping Bad Robocalls Act was introduced by bipartisan leaders in the Energy and Commerce Committee to combat these illegal spam calls. Recently, this legislation passed out of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology with strong bipartisan support.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a markup on Thursday, July 11, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The Subcommittee will markup ten bills to lower Americans’ health care and prescription drug costs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Teresa Miller, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand jury today for a firearms violation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Paul Ragusa, an associate of the Bonanno and Gambino organized crime families, was sentenced by United States District Judge Pamela K. Chen to 72 months’ imprisonment for possessing nine firearms, including three automatic assault rifles and a silencer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Williams, 52, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of sex trafficking of a minor, was sentenced to serve 188 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $477 million in airport infrastructure grants, the third allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Lashawn Williams, also known as “Ron Johnson," was sentenced to 147 months’ imprisonment for his role in the May 25, 2017 armed robbery of a jewelry store on Court Street in Brooklyn. The Court also ordered Williams to pay $95,000 in restitution. Williams...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man was charged today in federal court in Boston in connection with a conspiracy to launder funds derived from Business Email Compromise (BEC) fraud schemes, including one that targeted a Dorchester real estate attorney.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to nine and a half years in prison for possessing and attempting to sell a 9mm pistol with an obliterated serial number and a bulletproof vest.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, July 16, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of Federal Efforts to Combat the Spread of Illicit Fentanyl."
