News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A grand jury in the District of Massachusetts has returned additional charges against 11 of the 15 parents charged in the college admissions case.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: The GAIN Act reforms the New Source Review program under the Clean Air Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: A Presque Isle man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Bangor to possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of controlled substances, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: (Orangeburg, SC, Oct. 22, 2019) - Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has invested $9,750,000 in high-speed broadband infrastructure that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for 3,911 rural households in South Carolina. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Narriana Gray and Briana Gray, both 19 and of Hamburg, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with entry of goods by means of false statements, and possession of a controlled substance (marijuana). The charges carry a maximum penalty of two years in prison.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following statement today after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a settlement with Sunday Riley Skincare and its CEO, Sunday Riley, for misleading consumers...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Matthew A. Urquhart, 33, of Seneca Falls, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to serve to 44 months in prison and 10 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) issued the following statement after the committee passed H.R. 3398, the Pathways to Health Careers Act of 2019...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce 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 legislative hearing on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 10:30 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tayvon Rosier, 32, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of four counts of Hobbs Act robbery, was sentenced to serve to 92 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL), and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report detailing recommendations to improve cleanup efforts at the Department of Energy (DOE):
By DOE Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing to examine international efforts to increase energy efficiency and opportunities to advance energy efficiency in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against E-Skimming.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Harkers Island, NC - National Park Rangers have begun posting notices on non-permitted duck blinds within the boundaries of Cape Lookout National Seashore. These blinds may be unauthorized for a wide variety of reasons, including, but not limited to: unpermitted structures, non-temporary structures, abandoned structures and/or permits & permit numbers not being clearly displayed on structures.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
Release: Selected Projects to Lower Barriers to Innovation, Improve Access to National Lab Research
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Devron Lasha Young, Jr., age 22, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to a federal charge of possession with intent to distribute approximately 75 grams of fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl-enough to kill 37,500 people. Young was charged in federal court as part of a federal-state initiative announced in December 2018 to combat the fentanyl crisis in Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Eric Vang, 36, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita computer programmer pleaded guilty today to threatening cyberattacks against two web sites that posted criticism of Wichita lawyer Brad Pistotnik, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - On Oct. 18, DEA Special Operations Division Special Agent in Charge Wendy C. Woolcock and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman announced that on a jury returned a guilty verdict against Juan Antonio Hernández Alvarado, aka “Tony Hernández," on all four counts in the superseding indictment, which included cocaine importation, weapons and false-statements offenses. Hernández is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 17, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUIS NIEVES-FELICIANO, 41, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to drug and firearm offenses.
