News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Defendant Committed Carjacking While on Bond by Local Judge for Murder Charge.
By DOE Newswire | May 15, 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 Communications and Technology hearing on “Accountability and Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission."
By DOL Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Representative Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Chairman of the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN -Representatives from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Tennessee, Shelby County District Attorney General’s Office, the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), and the Memphis Police Department (MPD) today announced a reward of up to $100,000 in a renewed effort to gain additional information about the 2001 unsolved murder of U.S. Postal Service Contract Driver Larry Vinson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A federal jury in Portland returned guilty verdicts today against a Beaverton, Oregon man who detonated an improvised explosive device containing triacetone triperoxide (TATP), assaulting two members of the Portland Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) on Oct. 11, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ALEX SAUNDERS, age 25, a resident of Jamaica and former student athlete at Southern University in New Orleans, was sentenced today for his role in a conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Tyrone L. Williams, 37, of Hannibal, MO; Terry T. Williams, 34, of St. Louis, MO; and Harold Williams, 30, of Hannibal, MO, were sentenced to 121 months, 60 months, and 112 months in prison, respectively, for their participation in a conspiracy to traffic narcotics in the Hannibal, MO, area. They appeared before U.S. District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Warwick man who purchased, downloaded, and concealed videos of child pornography he obtained from the dark web with the use of bitcoin was sentenced today to 42 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management, Joe Balash, today renewed two Twin Metals Minnesota LLC-held hardrock mineral leases located on the Superior National Forest in Northeastern Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Shelton Shane Chapman, Jr., 20, of Leake County, and a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves to 7 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for burglary within the Pearl River Community...
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.) today asked Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to explain his level of concern about the fact that carbon in the atmosphere is at an 800,000-year high. Bernhardt’s response: “I’m not losing any sleep over it.".
By EPA Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Protecting Americans at Risk of PFAS Contamination and Exposure."
By DOL Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: OCALA, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Chewy Inc. - an online retailer of pet supplies - after a fatality at the company’s Ocala, Florida, distribution facility.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Washington, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of aiding and abetting the unlawful distribution of controlled substances and health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Thursday, May 16, 2019, the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy will hold a hearing on “CFPB’s Role in Empowering Predatory Lenders: Examining the Proposed Repeal of the Payday Lending Rule."
By US DOT Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a hearing titled “Oversight of the Council on Environmental Quality."
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - Two former corrections officers at the Richwood Correctional Center were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Monroe, Louisiana, for their roles in a conspiracy to cover up the abuse of inmates by officers. The defendants -- Demario Shaffer, 34, of Delhi, Louisiana, and David Parker...
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 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 Communications and Technology hearing on “Accountability and Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission."
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies today approved by voice vote its fiscal year 2020 bill. In total, the draft bill includes $37.28 billion, an increase of $1.73 billion over the 2019 enacted level and $7.24 billion over the President’s 2020 request. There is also an additional $2.25 billion of funding provided under the fire suppression cap adjustment. The bill next heads to the full Committee for markup.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2020 bill.
