News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: A Miami-Dade County, Florida resident was sentenced yesterday to five years in federal prison for setting fire to a local business.
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee markup on ten energy bills.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On May 15, 2019, the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, Senior United States District Judge, sentenced James Silas to 30 years followed by 5 years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that eight individuals were charged in an indictment unsealed today with one count each of conspiracy to commit kidnapping. Seven of those individuals were also charged with the actual kidnapping, and five of the individuals were charged with...
By Homeland Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Ezra Dave Maling, a fugitive Philippine national, was deported Tuesday due to violations of Philippine law pertaining to murder. He is accused of strangling to death his female ‘live in’ partner with a leather belt in March of 2003.
By Homeland Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released the draft fiscal year 2020 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee on Friday, May 17. The bill funds the Departments of Commerce and Justice, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and other related agencies.
By DOL Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), led seventeen of their Senate colleagues today in sending a comment letter to the Department of Defense (DOD) Acting Secretary...
By DOE Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, June 11 on the mission and future of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 37-year-old U.S. citizen who was living in Mexico has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute more than 10 kilograms of heroin, announced United States Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Chesapeake man today on charges of credit union fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By USDA Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced witnesses for the Committee’s upcoming hearing titled, “Climate Change and the Agriculture Sector."
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Charges result from investigation into the theft of a firearm from a federally licensed firearms dealer.
By EPA Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the release of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Inspector General’s report regarding the excess travel expenses of former Administrator Scott Pruitt...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - William Summers, 77, of Haines City, Florida, was sentenced on Wednesday to six months in federal prison for criminal contempt, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after Democrats spiked an opportunity to lower drug prices by combining bipartisan bills to lower drug costs with partisan bills to bail out Obamacare...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Jeffrey McKinney (61, Minneola) has pleaded guilty to wire fraud for his scheme to steal over $750,000 from his employer and one of its executives. McKinney is facing up to 20 years in federal prison, three years of supervised release, and will be ordered to pay restitution. Sentencing has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Defendant Robbed Store Clerks and Customers at Gunpoint.
By US DOT Newswire | May 16, 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 Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), raised serious concerns after the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Inspector General (EPA OIG) released a report determining that ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Third Degree Burglary was sentenced on May 13, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent letters to the White House and 24 agencies requesting information about the Trump Administration’s use of waivers to allow political appointees to continue working on matters they worked on before entering government.
