News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: SAN JOSE - Ricardo Rios-Angulo, aka Ricardo Perez-Lopez, was sentenced today to 220 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Beth Labson Freeman, United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Harwich man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for fentanyl conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Kioni M. Dogan, 38, of Stockton, pleaded guilty Tuesday to separate criminal conspiracies to submit false claims for federal income tax refunds and to commit mail fraud in connection with California state unemployment insurance benefits, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., announced the Agency detected asbestos in cosmetic products marketed to children and teens. Commissioner Gottlieb also outlined the need to work with Congress to address the agency’s outdated regulatory framework for cosmetics and personal care products to ensure the safety of products on the market...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement after the announcement Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb will resign...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Charges Include Heroin, Cocaine and Methamphetamine Distribution and Firearms Violatoins.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Brendan Regan Boddie and Amie Kristine Pritt, both of Morgantown, West Virginia, were indicted by a federal grand today firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Crystal Earth, age 26, of White River, South Dakota, convicted of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on March 4, 2019, by United States District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Marcus Danner a/k/a "Poncho", 39, was sentenced to 352 months imprisonment for his role in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, the possession of a firearm in the furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and aiding and abetting an attempted robbery. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement after the announcement Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb will resign...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement regarding the release of the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report entitled, “Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Could Improve Program and Project Management by Better Classifying Work and Following Leading Practices."
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) sent a letter to Energy and Commerce...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) have issued the following statement regarding the release of the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report entitled, “Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Could Improve Program and Project Management by Better Classifying Work and Following Leading Practices."
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and 24 cosponsors, reintroduced the Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act. The legislation would protect the health and safety of pregnant women and...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 762, the Streamlining Energy Efficiency for Schools Act of 2019, by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the conviction yesterday of ROBERT MERLO, a New Jersey-based insurance...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Gulf Breeze, Fla. - The National Park Service and HMS Ferries, Inc. have signed a 10 year concessions contract for the operation of Pensacola Bay Cruises. HMS will immediately begin preparing for the 2019 season. Service startup date, schedule, prices, and other details will be announced as soon as they...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) released the following statement today on the passage of the Responsible Disposal Reauthorization Act of 2019 (H.R. 347) and the Reauthorization of the West Valley Demonstration Project (H.R. 1138):
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Douglas V. Oakes (60, Bella Collina) with one count of tax evasion and six counts of making false and fraudulent statements on tax returns. If convicted, he faces up to five years in federal prison on the tax evasion count and up to three years’ imprisonment on each of the false statement counts.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Fargo - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on March 4, 2019, United States District Court Judge Linda R. Reade, Northern District of Iowa, sentenced Michael Adefemi Adeyemo, a/k/a/ Adekunle Olufemi Adetiloye, age 47, a citizen of Nigeria and living in Canada when extradited to the United States, to serve 10 years in prison, which is the statutory maximum for obstruction of justice under 18 U.S.C. 1503(b)(3).
