News from November 2019
By DOL Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Today, Republican Workforce Leaders on the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), reiterated their request for a public Committee hearing to examine the rampant corruption scandal within the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. The request, contained in a letter ...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Markup of legislation to reauthorize Brand USA and the U.S. SAFE WEB Act...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Markup of legislation to reauthorize Brand USA and the U.S. SAFE WEB Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Two Massachusetts men were arrested today and charged with conducting an extensive scheme to take over victims’ social media accounts and steal their cryptocurrency using techniques such as “SIM swapping," computer hacking and other methods.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, is pleased with today’s announcement by U.S. Trade Ambassador Robert Lighthizer that the Chinese market is once again open to U.S. poultry exports.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that five previously deported aliens were indicted separately on Nov. 13, 2019, by a federal grand jury for illegal reentry into the United States. These matters arose in counties throughout the District including Adams, Cumberland, and Luzerne Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Willie D. Hayden (33, Cape Coral) to 17 years in federal prison for distributing a controlled substance, possessing with the intent to distribute a controlled substance, and violating his supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kevin Toth, 29, of Tonawanda, NY, and Samantha Yeates, 27, of Depew, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with obstruction of justice. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated two South Carolina counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Abbeville and Laurens counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: NEWARK - A Brooklyn, New York, man was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for conspiring to rob a home improvement stores with stolen credit card information, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald “DJ" LaVoy today announced that USDA is investing $394 million to improve critical community facilities (PDF, 240 KB) in 28 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. USDA is making the investments through the Community Facilities Direct Loan Program.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced developments in two new prizes: Waves to Water , which challenges innovators to desalinate water using the power of ocean waves, and the Powering the Blue Economy™ Ocean Observing Prize , a joint DOE-National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner Brett P. Giroir today urging the agency to investigate allegations that JUUL Labs, Inc. knowingly distributed approximately one million contaminated mint-flavored e-cigarette pods for consumer use.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: “Thank you, Chairman Neal. “In 2003, as a member of the Ways and Means Committee, I was proud to help enact into law the Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, creating for the first time an affordable, life-saving prescription drug plan for seniors. “Led by President Bush and a Republican...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department will not pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against the United States Park Police (USPP) officers involved in the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Bijan Ghaisar, the Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Matthew Stacks, 45, of Charlotte, was sentenced late yesterday to 15 years in prison for transportation of child pornography, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. also ordered Stacks to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former Allston man was sentenced on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, in federal court in Boston for his role in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking and money laundering ring operating between Massachusetts and California.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at HSI’s new Angel Watch Center (AWC) in Fairfax, Virginia. As part of the ceremony, ICE Acting Director Matthew Albence explained that HSI special agents initiated more than 4,200 child exploitation cases in fiscal year 2019, resulting in approximately 3,771 criminal arrests, an increase of 18 percent compared to fiscal year 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Commerce announced today that six organizations will be presented with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Baldrige is the nation’s only presidential award for performance excellence, recognizing U.S. organizations and businesses that have shown an unceasing drive for innovative solutions to complex challenges, visionary leadership and operational excellence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to nearly 51 years in prison for his leadership role in the armed robbery of the Mr. Fuel truck stop in Ruther Glen on May 8, 2010.
