News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Loria, 33, of Fairport, N.Y., pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, oxycodone and being an unlawful user of oxycodone in possession of a firearm. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $1,000,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that former St. Tammany Parish District Attorney WALTER P. REED, age 70, and his son STEVEN P. REED, age 45, both of Covington, were sentenced today after being convicted by a federal jury in May of 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI- Jashawn Bailey, 30, of St. Thomas pleaded guilty today in federal court to possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, Acting United States Attorney Joycelyn Hewlett announced. District Judge Curtis V. Gomez remanded Bailey into the custody of the United States Marshals Service pending his sentencing on August 8, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Tacoma Murder Suspect Extradited from Mexico.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Washington - Today, Congressman John B. Larson (CT-01), the Ranking Member of the Ways & Means Subcommittee on Social Security, introduced the ‘Social Security 2100 Act’, HR 1902. This bill will cut taxes for Social Security recipients, provide a benefit bump for current and future beneficiaries, and keep the system strong for generations to come.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone National Park will begin accepting requests for 2017 firewood collection permits Friday, April 7, through Sunday, April 9.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL BALDWIN, 19, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of possession of a stolen firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that APRIL NICOLE GRIZZARD, age 32, of Milledgeville, George, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to two counts of a Superseding Indictment. GRIZZARD was charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fifty grams or more of methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute fifty grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas, Nevada return preparer was indicted today for preparing false tax returns, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today questioned Republicans’ insistence on holding this morning’s hearing on Rep. Don Young’s (R-Alaska) bill to build a habitat-destroying road through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Alaska decades after the failed idea...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced today that on April 7, 2017, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of North Dakota will host a National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Awards Ceremony to raise awareness about crime victims’ rights and to recognize individuals throughout the state...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Colorado Tres Rios Field Office is seeking the public’s help in reviewing its road and trail inventory in Montezuma, LaPlata, Archuleta, Dolores, San Miguel and Montrose counties.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon news that the Secretary of Energy was restored to a position on the National Security Council’s (NSC) Principals Committee after being removed from the committee in January. In February, Pallone and...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: (Washington, DC) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement on the Department of Labor’s delay of the conflict of interest rule...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CHRISTOPHER JAMIESON, age 34, a resident of Douglasville, Georgia, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to receipt of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Williamsport, MD - The National Park Service (NPS), Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park (C&O Canal) and Town of Williamsport, Maryland will host a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, May 5, 2017, 11:00 am at the Cushwa Basin in Williamsport to celebrate the start of the restoration of the Concocheague Aqueduct in Williamsport, MD.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon news that the Secretary of Energy was restored to a position on the National Security Council’s (NSC) Principals Committee after being removed from the committee in January. In February, Pallone and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Wei Xiang, who handled the sentencing, stated that the defendants were associates of a gang known as the Loiza Boys, which has been distributing heroin and cocaine on Buffalo’s West Side since at least 2006.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - On April 4, 2017, Chief U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. sentenced Destin Dominique Johnson to 48 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U. S. Attorney Harold H. Brittain announced today. Johnson was also ordered to pay a $3,000 fine and serve three years of supervised release when released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - An employee at a children’s ski school at a ski resort in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., was charged today with child exploitation and possession of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
