News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Rubens Casseus to two years in federal prison for aiding or assisting in the preparation of false documents under Internal Revenue laws. The court also ordered Casseus to pay $59,322 in restitution to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: More than a dozen people were inside the Albany, Georgia bank during the violent crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Subcommittee on Health markup on four pieces of legislation to improve maternal health and decrease maternal mortality, accelerate the FDA process to approve generic drugs and combat the youth tobacco epidemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today the November 7, 2019 sentencing of CHRISTELLE SCHMIDT, age 65 of Thibodeaux, Louisiana on one count of violating Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(b), Bank larceny. Schmidt previously pled guilty to the indictment, which was returned in November of 2018, and which alleged that SCHMIDT stole more than $550,000 from a local architectural firm while employed as a bookkeeper there.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Nestor Santiago Torres, 33, of Manchester, was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday to 50 months in prison for possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee markup of tobacco, maternal health and citizen petition legislation...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C.-Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, blasted the Trump administration over its lackluster efforts to address rising youth e-cigarette use at a committee hearing with experts from the Food and Drug Administration...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building entitled “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: The Challenges Facing Frontline Communities."
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee markup of tobacco, maternal health and citizen petition legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Marc Celello, a former state securities enforcement attorney and General Counsel for a Georgia investment company, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud investors out of over $40 million.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “Preserving and Expanding Clean, Reliable Nuclear Power: U.S. Commercial Nuclear Reactor Performance Trends and Safety Initiatives." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Loren Varga, 62, of Franklin Township, New Jersey, was sentenced to one day of incarceration, two years’ supervised release and a $1,500 fine by United States District Court Judge Anita Brody for illegally purchasing a tiger skin rug, made from an endangered species.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Project Guardian, a new initiative designed to reduce gun violence and enforce federal firearms laws across the country. Specifically, Project Guardian focuses on investigating, prosecuting, and preventing gun crimes.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building entitled “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: The Challenges Facing Frontline Communities."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced today that on Nov. 18, 2019, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maine, the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, the FBI, the Lewiston Police Department and the Portland Police Department...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee markup of tobacco, maternal health and citizen petition legislation...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Subcommittee on Health markup on four pieces of legislation to improve maternal health and decrease maternal mortality, accelerate the FDA process to approve generic drugs and combat the youth tobacco epidemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Michelle L. Wasserman (619) 546-8431.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Initiative emphasizes enforcing gun prohibitions based on domestic violence convictions and mental health denials.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Initiative emphasizes enforcing gun prohibitions based on domestic violence convictions and mental health denials.
