News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland political consultant pleaded guilty today to wire fraud as a result of his fraudulent scheme to solicit millions of dollars in political contributions through several scam-PACs that he founded and advertised as supporting candidates for office and other political causes.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building on supply chain security and spectrum. The hearing is entitled “Legislating to Secure America’s Wireless Future."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-Jon Michael Walsh, 46, of Neskowin, Oregon, was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison and 10 years’ supervised release for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin and illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement following House passage of three bipartisan consumer safety bills...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building on supply chain security and spectrum. The hearing is entitled “Legislating to Secure America’s Wireless Future."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - Two Topeka men pleaded guilty today to a federal carjacking charge, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: A South Florida securities lawyer and former outside counsel for 1 Global Capital, LLC has been charged with securities fraud in connection with an investment fraud scheme that impacted more than 3,600 investors in 42 different states.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-On Friday, Sept. 13, 2019, Theodore Martin Kirk, 64, of Klamath County, Oregon, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for stealing more than $30,000 in Social Security benefits dispersed in the name of his elderly mother, Nadine Kirk. Ms. Kirk has been missing since March 2010 and is presumed to be deceased.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national residing in Salem was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for Social Security fraud.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation that will allow New Jersey to utilize Clean Water State Revolving Funds to remove and replace the lead pipes contaminating Newark’s drinking water...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following statement today after the House passed three bills - by voice vote - to keep American families safe from common household dangers. The three bills were favorably reported out of both the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee and full Committee earlier this year...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeks Additional Information in Child Exploitation Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Donnell Salethian Woodard, a/k/a “Tank," age 31, of Columbia, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to sex traffic minors and benefiting from sex trafficking of minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Defendant Had Returned or Been Removed on at Least Three Prior Occasions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - On Sept. 16, 2019, Chief U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow sentenced Matthew Eric Moultrie, 20, of Rock Island, Ill., to seven years in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm. Judge Darrow ordered that the federal sentence be served consecutively to two other criminal cases Moultrie has in Rock Island County.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MELISSA MEOLE, 34, of North Branford, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging her with multiple embezzlement, fraud and identity theft offenses.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the two subcommittees will hold a joint hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 10 am in the John D.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham resident and six-time convicted felon to 105 months in prison for a 2018 carjacking in Homewood, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement following House passage of three bipartisan consumer safety bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Anthony Navarro-Velez, age 34, of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on September 9, 2019, to 121 months’ imprisonment by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, for his role in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin.
