News from October 2019

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a 27-count superseding indictment last Thursday against two brothers and five others, adding charges, including firearms and money laundering to an indictment first filed in May that charged them with a conspiracy to manufacture counterfeit pills containing fentanyl and other controlled substances, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit, Michigan man pled guilty today to a federal drug conspiracy charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Gerald Robinson, 26, entered a guilty plea to an indictment charging him with conspiracy to possession with intent to distribute oxycodone and Xanax.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: For Receiving Materials Depicting The Sexual Exploitation Of A Minor.

By US DOT Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement on the motion to intervene filed today by Global Automakers, General Motors, Toyota and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) in support of the Trump ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that U.S. Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced Bruce Aaron Boulton, age 49, of Woodville, Mississippi, to 51 months in federal prison following his conviction for mail fraud and wire fraud. The Court further sentenced Boulton to three years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment, and ordered him to pay restitution in the amount of $584,142.70.

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - A federal jury convicted a Delaware man Oct. 24, on charges of possession and attempted receipt of child pornography. The conviction follows an investigation by the Delaware State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce, consisting of Delaware State Police, the Department of Justice, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) announced that he will retire from the House at the end of the 116th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Theresa Louise Harris, 56, of Champion, Michigan, was sentenced to serve 24 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for cyberstalking numerous victims in and around Marquette, Michigan. Chief U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker also imposed a two-year period of supervised release and a $10,000 fine.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following joint statement today upon passage of five bills on the House Floor today to improve our nation’s health care system...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) announced that he will retire from the House at the end of the 116th Congress...

By EPA Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following joint statement today upon passage of five bills on the House Floor today to improve our nation’s health care system...

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY) introduced H.R. 4866, the National Centers of Excellence in Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Act of 2019. The bipartisan legislation would allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to partner with universities...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: ALAMOGORDO, NEW MEXICO - Hubbell Trading Post, Arizona, in partnership with Western National Parks Association (WNPA), takes their show on the road with a Navajo Rug Trunk Show to White Sands National Monument on Saturday, November 2 and Sunday, November 3.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: Ordered to Pay More than $2.6 Million in Restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: Roseburg, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be conducting prescribed fires throughout the Roseburg area on BLM-administered lands beginning Oct. 28, 2019, and continuing as conditions permit through the Spring of 2020. These prescribed fires are to reduce activity fuels generated by timber harvest operations, where fuels have been piled and covered at landings and along roadsides in multiple locations.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY) introduced H.R. 4866, the National Centers of Excellence in Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Act of 2019. The bipartisan legislation would allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to partner with universities...

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
Release: STERLING, Va. - This month marks the one-year countdown until all travelers will need a REAL ID-compliant driver’s license or other acceptable form of ID if they want to fly domestically starting October 2020.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy announced on Oct. 16, 2019, that ExxonMobil Pipeline Company (EMPCo) has been awarded the new lease of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve’s Saint James Marine Terminal and Bayou Choctaw 36-Inch Pipeline (St. James Facility).
By EPA Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY) introduced H.R. 4866, the National Centers of Excellence in Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Act of 2019. The bipartisan legislation would allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to partner with universities...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau’s Statistics in Schools (SIS) program and Shelby County schools in Tennessee held a nationwide kickoff today highlighting new 2020 Census classroom activities for students to learn about the importance of having everyone in their families counted in the census next March.