News from June 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Congress needs to address the crisis facing multiemployer pension plans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of Child Pornography was sentenced on June 7, 2019, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing on, “No More Surprises: Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Oversight of FERC: Ensuring Its Actions Benefit Consumers and the Environment:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) is working to protect patients from surprise medical bills. Walden has drafted bipartisan legislation with Chairman Frank Pallone to shield families across the country from these harmful, unexpected medical bills and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Wednesday, June 19, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building on pipeline safety proposals. The hearing is entitled, “Legislative Solutions to Make Our Nation’s Pipelines Safer."
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: One of America’s Favorite Foods Showcased in Ellis Island Exhibit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Josue Portillo, a member of the Leeward Locos Salvatruchas clique of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, was sentenced by United States Circuit Judge Joseph F. Bianco to 55 years’ imprisonment, following his guilty plea to racketeering...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Johnson Olatunji Ogunyemi, age 50, a Nigerian national residing in Owings Mills, Maryland, to 30 months in federal prison, after Ogunyemi pleaded guilty to forgery and false use of a passport, fraud and misuse of a visa, and money laundering. Judge Blake also ordered Ogunyemi to forfeit $105,561.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, the Committee on Oversight and Reform voted on a bipartisan basis to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with bipartisan subpoenas relating to the Trump Administration’s secret efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Oversight of FERC: Ensuring Its Actions Benefit Consumers and the Environment:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lancaster, California, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Louisiana Man Charged with Federal Hate Crimes for Setting Fire to Three St. Landry Parish Churches.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Timothy T. Myers, 27, of Ellsworth, Maine pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to bank robbery. The charges arose from the robbery in December 2018 of a two Bangor banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: A Cleveland man was convicted of illegally having ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Louis S. Boatner, 44, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 10 years in federal prison, followed by a four-year term of supervised release, for possessing...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 12, 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 Wednesday, June 19, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Protecting Title X and Safeguarding Quality Family Planning Care."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: A Claremore man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court for maintaining a drug-involved premises, being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, and obstruction of justice by using the threat of physical force against a witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A former Fort Peck Tribes law enforcement officer admitted on Monday to defrauding the tribes of $40,000 in a scheme where he proposed a program to help youth but spent the money on himself, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said today.
