News from October 2019
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 Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The Hulls Cove Visitor Center in Acadia National Park will close for the season on Oct. 31, 2019. Beginning on Nov. 1, National Park Service staff will relocate to the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce information center in downtown Bar Harbor to provide information about visiting the park.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today the Natural Resources Committee voted to advance Chair Raúl M. Grijalva’s (D-Ariz.) bill to update our nation’s antiquated Mining Law of 1872 (H.R. 2579, Hardrock Leasing and Reclamation Act of 2019 ) and two bills aimed at protecting miner pensions and health benefits (H.R. 934,Health Benefits for Miners Act of 2019 and H.R. 935, Miners Pension Protection Act ).
By DOE 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: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Mario Mercado, age 39, of Pueblo, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martinez to serve 33 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin. Following the prison sentence, Judge Martinez...
By EPA 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: CONCORD - James Goodwin, 53, of Northwood, was sentenced on Tuesday to 70 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Illegal Stock Promotion and Manipulation Scheme Cost Victims Million of Dollars.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Washington - USDA is extending the deadline to November 8, 2019, for eligible agriculture producers to enroll in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) Grassland Conservation Initiative, which was created by the 2018 Farm Bill. The original deadline was Oct. 25, 2019. This program is available to producers with base acreage that has been in grass or grasslands over a nine-year period, rather than planted with commodity crops.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a hearing titled “Improving American Economic Competitiveness through Water Resources Infrastructure: Federal Panel."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that Edward Christopher Deyoung, 46, of Crestview, Florida, and Antonia Esperanza Hernandez, 39, of Amarillo, Texas, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter to serve two years in prison each for conspiring to make, possess and pass counterfeit currency. They were also sentenced to three years of supervised release.
By DOE 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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Defendant Admits to Filing False Campaign Disclosure Reports to Avoid Detection.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: This week Democrats are using the Congressional Review Act to force a vote on a resolution that would effectively repeal an IRS regulation aimed at preventing millionaires and billionaires from exploiting a tax loophole.
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: 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 22, 2019
News Release: DALLAS - With solid public participation over the course of 17 prior events, the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative continues to remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to misuse, theft or abuse by family members and visitors, including children and teens.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Heart Butte man who admitted providing a minor with methamphetamine on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 33 months in prison and to six years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, woman today admitted to orchestrating a $1.7 million bank fraud scheme that involved writing fraudulent business checks, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By State Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after the Senate voted to approve the accession of North Macedonia to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO):
