News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - On Friday, June 21, 2019, U.S. Marshals Service Director Donald Washington administered the oath of office to the most recent group of U.S. Marshals appointed by President Donald J. Trump and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Mission Support Alliance (MSA), contractor for EM Richland Operations Office, recently hosted science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students from a local high school at the Volpentest Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response (HAMMER) Federal Training Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Leonard Velazquez-Martinez, 50, of Minnesota, and Joseph Andrade, 38, of Bakersfield, were arrested Monday for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - DOE Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar, left, receives a briefing June 19 in the Low-Activity Waste facility at the Hanford Site ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant. EM is on track to begin treating waste at the plant by 2023. Also pictured is Mark Planning, director of intergovernmental and external affairs with DOE's Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: For Possession Of Child Pornography. HAMMOND -Travis Barrett, 39, of Lafayette, Indiana was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. Barrett was sentenced to serve 97 months in prison...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Robocalls are plaguing American consumers, scamming individuals and undermining our communications systems. Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are marking up bipartisan robocall legislation today to cut the line on robocalls once and for all. Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology markup on H.R. 3375, the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, raised strong concerns that the reported suppression of significant climate change research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is harmful to agriculture and urged the Department to publicize past and future research.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 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 “Reauthorizing Vital Health Programs for American Families."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement in response to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announcing its proposed rule for five Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic (PBT) chemicals - a class of toxic chemicals subject to explicitly stricter standards under the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The EM Consolidated Business Center and DOE's Office of Legacy Management (LM) recently signed an agreement to expand collaboration on EM’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project, which could save taxpayer dollars and improve construction of a waste disposal cell.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Brooklyn Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty to Preparing Fraudulent Tax Returns for Clients and Himself.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 33-year-old man from Guatemala has entered a guilty plea to assaulting a Border Patrol (BP) agent and for illegally entering the country, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Florida Company Barred from Using Experimental Stem Cell Drugs on Patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A citizen of Mexico residing in Clinton, PA has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of unlawful reentry after removal, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joshua A. Schohn, 29, of Akron, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession of child pornography. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Martin, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Theft of Firearms, Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person, and Possession of a Stolen Firearm.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: A bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner Norman E. “Ned" Sharpless, M.D., today requesting briefings on two key agency actions related to the opioid epidemic. The Committee leaders are seeking information on the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Jason Muzzicato, 43, of Bangor, Pennsylvania was charged by Indictment with possession of firearms by a person subject to a court order restraining him from harassing, stalking and threatening an intimate partner (known as a domestic violence protective order, Protection From Abuse order or PFA), and possession of an unregistered destructive device (an improvised explosive device).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Robert McLain, 27, of Groveton, N.H., was sentenced to 65 months in prison for participating in a fentanyl drug trafficking conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) released the following statement after the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act (H.R. 3375 ) was reported to the full Energy and Commerce Committee by voice vote...
