News from June 2019
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement following new reports that last year, 37 migrant children, ages 5 to 12, were left in vans overnight as they waited to be reunited with families at Port Isabel Detention Center, Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) today announced that they are cosponsoring bipartisan legislation that would crack down on manufacturers and traffickers of fentanyl, a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: “On Saturday, President Trump declared a disaster in three Oklahoma counties affected by severe weather and flooding. The announcement is followed by today’s visit from Vice President Pence, who will view damage affecting Oklahoma residents. I am grateful for the Administration’s concern and swift action...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - Mahkya Searles, 23, of Tioga County, New York, pled guilty in United States District Court to receipt and possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Ahmed Mohamed, 24, of Lewiston, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 46 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, commonly...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Wendi E. Detter, age 46, of Lititz, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones III, to 18 months’ imprisonment to be followed by two years of supervised release for wire fraud.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, in light of new reports that uncovered significant levels of PFAS contamination in the U.S. food supply, U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) called for Congress to quickly enact legislation that would take meaningful steps to begin addressing PFAS contamination in the environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury in Chicago has convicted a Silicon Valley businessman of defrauding investors in his computer companies after soliciting and obtaining some of the money via crowdfunding.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $75 million in funding for 66 university research awards on a range of topics in high energy physics to advance knowledge of how the universe works at its most fundamental level.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A citizen of Honduras pleaded guilty today to illegal reentry into the United States.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing on “Investing in America’s Health Care."
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “STELAR Review: Protecting Consumers in an Evolving Media Market:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging TANNER BLAKE JENSEN, 28, and RODNEY TYRONE FAHS, 26, both of Ponca City, in connection with an armed robbery of the Yale Drug Store, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester. According to court records, on December...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Investing in America’s Health Care:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Hot Springs, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on June 3, 2019, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement following new reports that last year, 37 migrant children, ages 5 to 12, were left in vans overnight as they waited to be reunited with families at Port Isabel Detention Center, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: MACON - The defendant believed to be the ringleader in a mail theft and check cashing ring in the Warner Robins community was sentenced to more than seven months imprisonment followed by six months of home confinement by a U.S. District Judge today, said U.S. Attorney Charles “Charlie" Peeler. Mozell...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Johnell L. Britt, 20, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to seven years in federal prison, for robbing a Subway restaurant in Madison while armed with a handgun. Britt pleaded guilty to this charge on March 12, 2019, and his co-defendant, Lamontay Rivera, 21, also of Madison, pleaded guilty on March 15, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Chinedu Ihejiere, 42, of Brockton, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing on the nomination of Robert Wallace to be Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks at the Department of the Interior. Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
