News from November 2019
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia - Do you like a good story? Then join thousands of storytellers and listeners around the world in observation of Tellabration!™ 2019 on Saturday, November 23. Local stories will be told from 2:30 - 3:30 pm at New River Gorge National River’s Canyon Rim Visitor Center in Lansing, West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Former Chief Executive Officer of a Brazilian Petrochemical Company Charged for His Role in a Scheme to Pay Bribes to Brazilian Officials and to Falsify Company Books and Records.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: All three units, including Montezuma Castle in Camp Verde, Montezuma Well in Rimrock, and Tuzigoot in Clarkdale, will observe the following holiday hours.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Milton Ordenana, 49, of Warwick, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence on Tuesday to violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). Ordenana failed to register as a sex offender in Rhode Island, having moved more than five months ago to Warwick from the City of New York, where he is a convicted and registered sex offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing examining the challenges of communities subject to environmental risks.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: LITTLE ROCK- A Little Rock man was sentenced to prison today after making false statements on loan applications, costing banks and lenders over $3.3 million. Marcus Shane Sweetin, 46, was sentenced to 33 months in prison. Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today’s sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement after the Full Committee voted favorably to advance H.R. 5035, the “Television Viewer Protection Act of 2019," as amended, to the full House of Representatives...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
Release: The following statement is on the record, attributable to DOE Press Secretary Shaylyn Hynes...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Whittier man has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with illegal possession of machine guns today.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
Release: TRENTON, NJ - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is now offering the use of “blended lanes" at Trenton-Mercer Airport and Atlantic City International Airport. Blended lanes provides TSA Pre✓® screening to confirmed TSA Pre✓® individuals and their accessible property at smaller airports...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and James Lankford (R-OK) introduced bipartisan legislation to help save taxpayers billions of dollars by changing the way the federal government acquires real estate.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: For Felon in Possession of One or More Firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Cadie McAlister, 21, pleaded guilty to a federal offense and admitted concealing other correctional officers’ assault of an inmate while McAlister was serving as an officer with the Tennessee Department of Corrections.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the Brand USA Extension Act (H.R. 3851) and U.S. SAFE WEB Act (H.R. 4779) were favorably reported to the full House of Representatives by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Andre Allen, 21, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today for his role in an armed kidnapping and robbery that began in the District of Columbia and continued into Maryland, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Timothy M. Dunham, Special Agent in Charge, Criminal Division, FBI Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By EPA Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: The Challenges Facing Frontline Communities." This is the sixth hearing in the Committee’s climate change series aimed at developing comprehensive legislation to achieve a 100 percent clean economy by 2050...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Approximately $250 Million Allegedly Diverted from Braskem Through a Secret Slush Fund to Pay Bribes to Government Officials and Political Parties in Brazil.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ibrahim Dirweesh, 35, of Atlanta, Georgia, who was convicted of possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to serve 24 months in prison.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the “Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2019," (H.R. 2699 ) was favorably reported, as amended, to the full House of Representatives by voice vote...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement on passage of the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act during today’s full committee markup.
