News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: Oregon FBI's Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Using Virtual Private Networks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Thomas Walker (74, Clearwater) has pleaded guilty to trafficking in counterfeit sports jerseys. Walker faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. His sentencing date is not yet scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Rodney Miles, age 29, of Edwardsville, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Oct. 28, 2019, by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to 40 months’ imprisonment followed by three years on supervised release for unlawfully possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Akilees Hobson, age 21, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to five years’ imprisonment by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Michael Bang has been sentenced for defrauding the Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association’s (“COPERA") health insurance plan, called PERACare.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon National Park is hosting free Native American heritage and diversity events as well as offering fee-free entry in honor of Veterans Day in early November 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Protecting the RFS: The Trump Administration’s Abuse of Secret Waivers:"
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: Washington -. Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah), Representative Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Representative Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.), and Representative Scott Tipton (R-Colo.) released statements regarding legislation scheduled for consideration on the House floor. H.R. 2182, H.R. 1373, and H.R. 823...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce hearing titled, “Reauthorizing Brand USA and the U.S. SAFE WEB Act."
By EPA Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement applauding House passage of five bipartisan Energy and Commerce bills to advance public health.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Blanca Quintero and Daniel Silva (619) 546-7118.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) today called on the Trump administration to detail how and why it has presided over an unprecedented rise in the number of uninsured children in the United States, and what...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: Today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Republican Leader of the Committee on Education and Labor, delivered the following statement on the Republican Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute, as prepared for delivery, at a committee markup of H.R. 4674, the College Affordability Act...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing entitled “Repurposing the C-Band to Benefit All Americans:"
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Solease Asiman Babb (32, Lakeland) to 30 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. The court ordered Babb to forfeit the firearm and ammunition, and to serve a three-year term of supervised release following his release from prison. Babb had pleaded guilty on July 24, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today demanded answers from the Trump administration regarding a possible quid pro quo during China trade deal negotiations.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing titled, “Repurposing the C-Band to Benefit all Americans."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: A South Portland man was sentenced today in federal court in Portland for holding for sale a counterfeit drug and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Trixa Belloso Rivas, 55, of Las Vegas, was sentenced today to 14 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $2 million in restitution to the IRS, U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich announced.
By State Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
Release: Human trafficking is modern slavery, and it has no place in our world. As both a grave crime and a human rights abuse, it compromises national and economic security, undermines the rule of law, and harms the well-being of individuals and communities everywhere. With an estimated 24.9 million victims worldwide, human traffickers prey on adults and children of all ages, backgrounds, and nationalities, exploiting them for their own profit.
