News from February 2020
By DOE Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) praised the US. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Administrator Andrew Wheeler for their proposal to regulate perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in drinking water.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, Robert Brandon Malone, 35, a resident of Prattville, Alabama pleaded guilty to three counts of federal wire fraud and one count of transporting a stolen vehicle, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., FBI Special Agent in Charge James Jewell, and Prattville Police Chief Mark Thompson. The federal charges arise from multiple schemes orchestrated by Malone to sell automobiles that did not belong to him.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Ten defendants have been charged in federal court with conspiring to illegally conduct a multi-million dollar sports gambling business in the Chicago area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Daniel Lee Boose, age 37, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Feb. 19, 2020, by a federal grand jury with receipt and possession of child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Thursday, Feb. 27, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Three former residents of Southwestern Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to drug trafficking in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Crystal Martin, former Associate Registrar at Delaware State University, was sentenced to 15 months’ incarceration today by the Honorable Richard G. Andrews, United States District Judge for the District of Delaware.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee member Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA) earlier this week introduced the Reinforcing and Evaluating Service Integrity, Local Infrastructure, and Emergency Notification for Today’s Networks Act (H.R. 5926), or the RESILIENT Networks Act, a bill to improve network resiliency in times of emergency.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND- Terryante Flournoy, 21, and Ciontay Wright, 20, both of Gary, Indiana, have been indicted for attempted robbery affecting interstate commerce, conspiracy to commit robbery, and murder resulting from the use and carrying of a firearm during and in relation to that attempted robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. Flournoy has also been indicted for possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: The Defendant Used an Illegally Obtained Firearm in Shooting Incident.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 46-year-old Dallas man has been sentenced to federal prison for firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Deputy Sheriff began romantic relationship with defendant while in jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A bill of indictment was unsealed in federal court today, charging Bryan Lee Ragon, 43, of Charlotte, with sex trafficking of a minor, production of child pornography, transportation of a minor, and receipt of child pornography, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: Two Maine men were sentenced today in federal court in Portland for fentanyl trafficking offenses, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Portsmouth man today on charges of a racketeering conspiracy that included the murder of 23-year-old Delante Eley.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Feb. 18, 2020, Jason G. Burgett (age: 43) of, Wisconsin, appeared in federal court in Green Bay and was sentenced to 164 months in federal prison, was ordered to pay full restitution, and serve three years on supervised release following the completion of his federal sentence, for Bank Robbery, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing on “Proposed Fiscal Year 2021 Budget With Health and Human Services Secretary Azar" on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020 at 10:00 AM in room 1100 Longworth House Office Building.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) praised the US. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Administrator Andrew Wheeler for their proposal to regulate perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in drinking water.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: EL PASO, TX - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon today announced that the DEA will direct enforcement resources to methamphetamine “transportation hubs" - areas where methamphetamine is often trafficked in bulk and then distributed across the country. While continuing...
