News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A Mexican national and a U.S. citizen have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of conspiracy for attempting to commit the kidnapping of a Houston man, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Julio Cesar Garcia-Longoria, a 42-year-old Mexican National from Nuevo Laredo, and Iraida Griselda Hernandez, 42, of Houston, pleaded guilty Oct. 12, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Road construction is scheduled to begin on a portion of the Generals Highway within and between Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks on July 8, 2019. This 16-mile Generals Highway Rehabilitation Project will take place over the next 2 years during the construction seasons. In year one, the expected scope consists of drainage improvements and culvert replacements.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
Release: Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 12 projects to receive approximately $44.5 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA), Advanced Technologies for Recovery of Unconventional Oil & Gas Resources.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee markup of H.R. 3432, the Safer Pipelines Act of 2019...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A woman who operated massage parlors in Lawrence and Topeka was sentenced today to three years on federal probation for operating a prostitution business, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. In addition, the defendant agreed to pay a $650,000 judgement, which represents the proceeds of the crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee markup of H.R. 3432, the Safer Pipelines Act of 2019...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge with the Little Rock FBI, announced that Stanley Rice, age 59, of Van Buren, Arkansas, was sentenced today to Life in federal prison without the possibility...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced a bill that would spark investments in offshore wind power, helping to create thousands of good-paying American jobs by supporting the construction ...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it would resume the process of withdrawing the proposed determination it issued in 2014 for the Pebble mine project in southwest Alaska. The agency also announced that ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Charles F. Martin, 57, of Bellevue, Nebraska, and Sherri L. Atkins, 59, of Omaha, Nebraska, were sentenced today in federal court for conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Chief United States District Court Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Martin to 33 months’...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - As part of a joint federal-state law enforcement action targeting the Rancho San Pedro street gang, authorities this morning unsealed two federal grand jury indictments that charge 14 members and associates of the gang with narcotics and firearms offenses.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today requesting updated information on the agency’s inspections of imported cosmetic products. Pallone’s request follows an alarming announcement from FDA that the agency has not conducted any foreign cosmetic inspections in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 and does not intend to conduct any inspections in FY 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for leading a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Nilo Arnaldo Pena Delgado, 32, of Buffalo, NY, with four counts of bank fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal grand jury yesterday issued a 135-count second superseding indictment charging a Fultondale doctor, Paul Roberts, M.D., with 31 additional counts of dispensing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose, announced the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Reginald T. Warren, 37, of Natchitoches, Louisiana, was sentenced Tuesday to 300 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime. He was also sentenced to five years of supervised release.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 26, 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 Energy markup on “H.R. 3432, the Safer Pipelines Act of 2019."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Aliquippa, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today requesting updated information on the agency’s inspections of imported cosmetic products. Pallone’s request follows an alarming announcement from FDA that the agency has not conducted any foreign cosmetic inspections in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 and does not intend to conduct any inspections in FY 2020.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today requesting updated information on the agency’s inspections of imported cosmetic products. Pallone’s request follows an alarming announcement from FDA that the agency has not conducted any foreign cosmetic inspections in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 and does not intend to conduct any inspections in FY 2020.
