News from September 2019
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, at Solar Power International, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Assistant Secretary for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Daniel R Simmons, announced the winners of the first round of the American-Made Solar Prize, a $3 million competition designed to revitalize U.S. solar manufacturing. As part of the prize, the winners each received $500,000 in cash for use at DOE National Laboratories.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Leader of Scheme Will Forfeit Online Domains and More Than Eight Million Dollars Seized From Swiss Bank Accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A professional drummer who has served as a musical director for the United Nations and “The Arsenio Hall Show" television program pleaded guilty today to one count of wire fraud for embezzling $750,000 from a charity concert for homeless children and using the stolen money to pay alimony to his ex-wife and buy cars for his mother and son.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Evon Stephens was sentenced by United States District Judge I. Leo Glasser to five years’ imprisonment following his guilty plea to setting fire to a vehicle in the parking garage attached to the Kings Plaza Shopping Center on Sept. 17, 2018. The amount of restitution will be determined by the Court at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: LONDON, Ky.- Charles R. Hubbard, 56, of Pineville, Kentucky, was sentenced to 94 months in federal prison Monday, for conspiring with others to distribute an aggravated amount of methamphetamine in Harlan County and Bell County, by U.S. District Judge Robert E. Wier.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, ALASKA - Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Acting Superintendent Albert Faria announced today that the 13-knot vessel speed restrictions in mid-Glacier Bay will be lifted effective at 5AM on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officer was arrested today on federal “structuring" charges alleging that he made cash withdrawals and deposits totaling nearly $100,000 designed to circumvent federal reporting requirements and also to conceal assets from his then-wife, who was divorcing him.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Andrew N. LaVigne Ordered to Pay Over $3.6 Million in Restitution to Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man was sentenced in federal court in Worcester in connection with a 2017 fentanyl trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Two men from Northwest Ohio were sentenced to prison for crimes related to child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Ft. Myers, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return by a grand jury of an indictment charging Alex Jared Zwiefelhofer (22, Wisconsin) and Craig Austin Lang (29, Arizona and North Carolina) with conspiracy to commit robbery affecting commerce and to discharge a firearm during...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) issued the following statement today after Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) external science advisors...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In preparation for consideration of reauthorization of the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing to gather perspectives on the U.S. livestock and poultry sectors.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing today, “Making Prescription Drugs More Affordable: Legislation to Negotiate a Better Deal for Americans."
By EPA Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA) today released a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report outlining the cybersecurity...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee legislative hearing on “Making Prescription Drugs More Affordable: Legislation to Negotiate a Better Deal for Americans:"
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement in support of today’s hearing in the Committee on Energy and Commerce on several bills to combat the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs, including Chairman Cummings’ bill, H.R. 448, the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Act...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
Release: Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Chair of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on international food assistance programs at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: 21 Total Individuals Indicted for Roles in Drug Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Plum Borough, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court today to charges involving heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
