News from April 2017
By USDA Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture urging regulatory relief from rigid school meal standards, specifically sodium limits and whole grain and dairy requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a drug trafficking organization that allegedly distributed hundreds of grams of heroin in Trenton and the surrounding area, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Oct 22, 2015, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned a 14-count indictment charging MOHSEN YOUSSEF, 26, formerly of Vernon, with fraud offenses relating to an alleged scheme to secure more than $3 million in funding for his purported pita manufacturing business.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that JEROD LEROY GAMMILL, age 32, of Mounds, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for STEALING FIREARMS FROM A FEDERAL FIREARMS LICENSED DEALER, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 924(m) and 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: Set up Shell Companies, Filed Frivolous Claims and Sent Forged Money Orders to Evade Taxes.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - It’s been another bad week for the so-called “Affordable Care Act."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley sentenced Dumitru Martin, 55, of Romania, today to 13 years in prison for conspiracy to commit bribery and bribery of a public official, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: Keizer Police Lieutenant Graduates from the FBI National Academy.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after a last minute Rules Committee hearing was convened to consider half-baked changes to the TrumpCare proposal...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CARLOS AGATON-VAZQUEZ, age 25, a native of Mexico, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment for illegal entry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has prepared a draft Environmental Assessment for the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) Advanced Metering and Water Conservation Improvements. The draft EA details Reclamation’s proposed grant of $1,000,000 to EBMUD through a WaterSMART Program grant.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - It’s been another bad week for the so-called “Affordable Care Act."
By USDA Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today with Congressman Roger Marshall, R-Kan., sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on behalf of Kansas ranchers affected by the recent wildfires, expressing thanks for previous departmental actions taken and requesting additional programmatic and resource flexibility when responding to a disaster.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of a contract to SC&A, Inc. of Vienna, VA for the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) for the development of a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) Procurement. The contract is a Time-and-Materials type contract. The total value of the contract is $16,943,727 with a five-year period of performance. Four proposals were received in response to the solicitation.
By State Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening made the following statement...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, along with Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and 14 Democratic Senators pressed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt on the agency's ...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, joined 39 of his colleagues in introducing legislation to designate the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness and protect the land from future development. The ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: Kyle Hobbs, 24 of Philadelphia, PA was charged today by Information with possession of child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney G. F. “Pete" Peterman, III announces that Antonio Riggins, age 35, of Columbus, GA, and Steven Scott, aged 49, also of Columbus, were sentenced today for their roles in a Balfour Jewelry store burglary that occurred on Fort Benning on Nov. 14, 2015.
