News from May 2019
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the Trump administration’s new tariffs on Chinese goods...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: A Missouri man who conspired with others to sell grain fraudulently marketed as organic pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By EPA Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chair Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) issued the following statement today after the Utility Air Regulatory Group (UARG) announced it is disbanding.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: Three Palm Beach County residents have been charged with orchestrating a $3.6 million investment fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of McKees Rocks, PA, was sentenced in federal court this week for violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement regarding the 2019 Medicare Trustees Report and 2019 Social Security Trustees Report...
By EPA Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Administrator David Redl announced his resignation...
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) sent a letter to Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) strongly cautioning the Chairman from moving forward with a potential subpoena or lawsuit of six years of President Donald J. Trump’s tax returns.
By State Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. President: We are deeply concerned by your decision to invite Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to the White House. As you know, Hungary is a NATO ally, and it is important that the United States maintain a close relationship with Hungary. However, we are concerned that you will turn a...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice, Mike Stuart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, Assistant United States Attorney Helen Altmeyer, Northern District of West Virginia, Governor James...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Bruce Redmond, age 30, of Dallas, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 7, 2019, for illegal possession of firearms and drug trafficking in Luzerne County.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that CoreCare Behavioral Health Management, Inc., which does business as “Kirkbride Center," a health care facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay the United States $160,200 in penalties to resolve allegations that it failed properly to account for highly addictive and frequently abused opioids, including methadone.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Yesterday, Latoya Leonardine Johnson, 25, of Ajo, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 35 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for murdering a six-year-old boy on the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation. Johnson previously pleaded guilty to Second Degree Murder.
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2019
Release: ALCOA, Tenn. - The Transportation Security Administration discovered a loaded firearm at the McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS) checkpoint this morning.
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2019
Release: SEATTLE - Officers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) have discovered three firearms in the carry-on luggage of travelers in the past 24 hours.
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs today approved its fiscal year 2020 bill. In total, the bill provides $56.4 billion in base discretionary funding-$2.2 billion above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level and $13.7 billion above the President’s budget request. The bill next heads to the full Committee for markup.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - The National Park Service announced on May 10 that it has finalized the Saline Valley Warm Springs Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (plan/EIS). The document outlines the agency’s plan for managing visitor use, natural resources, cultural resources, and facilities at this backcountry site.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Cammron Robinson, age 24, of New Paltz, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison for sexual exploiting four children.
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) and the top Republican on the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Devin Nunes (R-CA) sent a letter to Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) calling for a Committee hearing on H.R. 1384, the “Medicare for All Act of 2019.".
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2019
Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Transportation Security Administration officers discovered a loaded firearm at the Nashville International Airport (BNA) checkpoint this morning.
