News from April 2017
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 99,600 visitors to Steamtown National Historic Site in 2016 spent $5,403,500 in communities near the park. That spending supported 86 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $7,432,400.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANTHONY LEE PAROWSKI, 29, of Stratford, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Christopher Bohnenkamp, 42, formerly of Kuna, Idaho, pleaded guilty today, pursuant to a plea agreement, to one count of wire fraud and one count of bank fraud, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent a letter to the Acting Secretary of the Army asking for a final determination as to whether Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn violated the law (37 U.S.C. § 908) by accepting payments from foreign government-controlled entities.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PATRICIA LAFAYETTE, 62, of Torrington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 21 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for committing health care fraud. Judge Bolden also ordered LAFAYETTE to serve her first six months of supervised release in home confinement, and to pay restitution of $1.6 million.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and our surrounding communities welcomed 777,428 visitors to the area in 2016. A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that these visitors spent $33,598,400 in communities near the park. That spending supported 474 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $34,354,100.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Reps. Kristi Noem (R-SD) and John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today led a bipartisan group of lawmakers in reintroducing H.R. 2193, the Remote Transactions Parity Act (RTPA), which aims to create a level playing field so Main Street stores and online retailers can compete fairly. Reps. Steve Womack (R-AR), Jason ...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: VIENNA - DOE Fellow Christine Wipfli recently returned from a one-year internship with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), where she gained insight into the complexities of a global organization balancing science and engineering with policy and diplomacy.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: The search for a second person whose canoe capsized in the Buffalo River Wednesdaycontinued until 7 pm today (4/27). Search efforts on both banks and on the river between Kyles Landing and Erbie produced negative results in spite of significantly lower water levels and an expanded search team.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The former Postmaster of the U.S. Postal Service Post Offices in Blackstone and Jefferson, Mass., pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Worcester to stealing approximately $31,000 from the U.S. Postal Service.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: PIKETON, Ohio - EM’s Portsmouth Site and cleanup contractor Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth (FBP) recently finished deactivating the first floor unit of the X-326 Gaseous Diffusion Process Building, a milestone in preparing the cell for demolition.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that DWIGHT JARVIS, 28, of Monroe, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of distribution of cocaine base (“crack").
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - On April 26, 2017, ANGELA RENEE RENEAU, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced by United States District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange to serve 18 months in federal prison for committing wire fraud and for failing to file an income tax return, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. April 27, 2017-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) geneticist Edward Buckler is the first person to receive the National Academy of Science's (NAS) Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences. Buckler will be recognized for pioneering the use of large-scale genomic approaches linking genes...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting U.S. Attorney John J. Farley announced that Jesus Silva-Cruz, 42, a citizen of Cuba and an inmate at the federal correctional institution FCI-Berlin, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to possessing marijuana and possessing a prohibited object while an inmate at a federal prison. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Aug. 3, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jose Martir Romano-Hernandes, age 45, and a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty yesterday to illegal re-entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Bryan Wayne Edwards, 35, of Greenville, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to 120 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in November 2016 to his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Honduran national today admitted to kidnapping his former girlfriend in Kansas City, Missouri, and raping her while they traveled to New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Germaine D. Hill, age 39, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on April 5, 2017, by a federal grand jury on a firearms charge. The case was unsealed on April 26, 2017, following Hill’s arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Ilie Zdragat, 30, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley to two years in prison for aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
