News from September 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Improving Maternal Health: Legislation to Advance Prevention Efforts and Access to Care:"
By DOL Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: COLUMBIA, MD - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and key stakeholders in the elevator industry have signed an alliance to protect industry employees and promote workplace safety and health nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Frank Monte (40, Valrico) and Kimberley Anderson (52, New Port Richey) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to pay healthcare kickbacks. Each faces up to five years in federal prison and each has also agreed to forfeit $1,717,925.50 in assets.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Jo’Shwan Danquell Hamilton (26, Fort Myers) to 11 years and 6 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, distributing controlled substances, and carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime. The court also ordered Hamilton to forfeit a firearm and ammunition.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: DALLAS - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) announced the appointment of Ryan L. Spradlin as the special agent in charge to head the HSI Dallas office, which oversees six offices in 128 counties in North Texas and the state of Oklahoma.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As an increasing number of communities across the country continue to grapple with contamination of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water sources, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), reacted to a ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Over 30 firearms and a large quantity of meth laid out across a conference table.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: FAYETTE COUNTY WILL NOW BE PART OF THE APPALACHIA HIDTA (AHIDTA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky.- Jackson Noel, a pharmacist operating Buffalo Drug Inc., in Buffalo WV., was found guilty on Tuesday of conspiring to dispense and distribute oxycodone and oxymorphone.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 51-year-old Laredo resident has admitted she made a false statement and provided contraband in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has won a national safety award for its efforts to protect workers from mercury vapors.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks at a Subcommittee on Health hearing, “Improving Maternal Health: Legislation to Advance Prevention Efforts and Access to Care." While Walden is eager to discuss efforts to understand...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - A new treatment approach designed to expedite removal of residual chromium deep in the ground near the Columbia River is showing promise at the Hanford Site. In the first phase of a study earlier this summer, pictured here, workers with EM Richland Operations Office contractor CH2M...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Honorable Judge Keith Starrett, of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, sentenced defendant Louie Bernard Revette, 38, to serve 11 years on federal charges for his commission of a crossburning on Oct. 24, 2017, in Seminary, Mississippi. Revette previously...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 25, on the public health impacts and regulatory authorities related...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced Devante Courtney, a 26-year-old resident of Baton Rouge, to 68 months in federal prison following his conviction for possessing a firearm by a convicted felon. The Court further sentenced Courtney to 3 years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment, and ordered that the firearm possessed by Courtney be forfeited.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow today sentenced Porsche Anna Cruz, a/k/a Bridget Annette Barnes, Anna de la Cruz, and Ana Cruz, age 45, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 90 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl and cocaine, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE- Zackary Galloway, 28, of Portland, Indiana was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated three Alabama counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Dale, Geneva, and Henry counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to eight and a half years in federal prison for using thousands of stolen credit cards to purchase luxury goods and services.
