News from October 2019
By DOE Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Safeguarding Pharmaceutical Supply Chains in a Global Economy."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Nigerian Citizen Sentenced for Role in International Cyber-Fraud Scheme.
By State Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today issued the following statement...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at an Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Sabotage: The Trump Administration's Attack on Health Care:"
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Angel Fernando, 29, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer to conspiracy to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl. The charge carries a minimum...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “Improving American Economic Competitiveness through Water Resources Infrastructure: Federal Panel." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - Mountain bike riders can enjoy fall colors on the Bizz Johnson National Recreation Trail, when the Bureau of Land Management and Lassen Rural Bus offer a special shuttle service, Saturday, Oct. 26. Riders should call the BLM at 530-257-0456 to reserve space.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of GARY JAMES HEDIN, 41, former owner of Downtown Dental Care LLC, a dental practice located in Duluth, Minnesota, for failing to account for and pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service. HEDIN, who was charged...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that John Stroman, 31, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 33 months in federal prison for unlawfully possessing a loaded firearm as a convicted felon. Stroman pleaded guilty to this charge on July 16, 2019. His prison term will be followed by a three-year period of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Deviassi Adams, 41, of Jackson, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to 120 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Dunbar drug dealer was sentenced to federal prison for a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Samuel Manriquez, 34 was sentenced to 15 months in prison for distribution of furanyl fentanyl and U-47700. Furanyl fentanyl is an analog of fentanyl and U-477001 is...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today is pleased with the announcement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to extend the deadline for eligible producers to enroll in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) Grassland Conservation Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The former owner of a Kansas City, Missouri, business was sentenced in federal court today for obstructing the government’s effort to collect more than $378,000 in taxes owed.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at hearing discussing ways to reduce emissions from the U.S. transportation system at a Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing titled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for Planes, Trains and Everything Beyond Automobiles."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - James Jamar Warren, 33, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 77 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at an Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Sabotage: The Trump Administration's Attack on Health Care:"
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Gary Frank, 48, of Philadelphia and Bala Cynwyd, PA, was sentenced to 210 months’ imprisonment, five years supervised release and ordered to pay $33,702,900 in restitution by United States District Judge Gerald Pappert for executing a massive...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building on how to achieve net zero greenhouse gas pollution within the power sector. The hearing is entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for the U.S. Power Sector."
By DOE Newswire | Oct 23, 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, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for Planes, Trains and Everything Beyond Automobiles." This is the fourth hearing in a series of climate change hearings aimed at achieving the Committee’s goal of a 100 percent clean economy by 2050...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A New Jersey man pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to conspiring with others to purchase, transport and sell more than 1,000 box turtles that were unlawfully collected from the state of Oklahoma, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
