News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Cleveland, Ohio, pled guilty and was sentenced in federal court to 13 years’ imprisonment on charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and possession with intent to distribute heroin Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting U.S. Attorney John J. Farley announced that Michael Giles, 41, pleaded guilty today in the United States District Court to committing three bank robberies and attempting to rob a fourth bank. A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Aug. 11, 2017. If the court accepts the terms of a plea agreement, Giles will be sentenced to ten years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A member of MS-13’s Eastside Loco Salvatrucha (ESLS) clique in the metro Boston area, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to RICO conspiracy and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The National Park Service (NPS) is planning to conduct a number of prescribed fire burns in Acadia National Park through June 1 and again from September 1 to Nov. 30, 2017, provided weather and fuel conditions meet the conditions established in the park’s prescribed fire plan.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Leaders from federal and state agencies overseeing the Hanford Site cleanup hosted a virtual public meeting on April 12 called Hanford Live.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling $231,600 from her employer, Shelter Insurance Federal Credit Union.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and 12 Energy Subcommittee Democrats sent a letter to Full Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today to request a second hearing on making improvements in hydropower operations, ...
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 DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Fifteen Recognized During Office’s Thirteenth Annual Awards Ceremony.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Today, Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Inspector General, requesting an investigation into Administrator Scott Pruitt's decision to reject a petition banning the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos, reversing a previous EPA proposal to terminate use of this chemical and ignoring the EPA's scientific record on the risks from this neurotoxin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that Partners HealthCare System and one of its hospitals, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (collectively, BWH), have agreed to pay $10 million to resolve allegations that a BWH stem cell research laboratory run by Dr. Piero Anversa fraudulently obtained grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). BWH disclosed these allegations to the government.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, met with Lt. Col. Mike Bliss and Lt. Col. Kristen Dahle, the outgoing and incoming Philadelphia District Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia and the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Charleston District Office announced today the location of collection sites for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 35-year-old Port Arthur, Texas man has been found guilty by a jury for federal violations related to the murder of a Port Acres woman in the Eastern District of Texas, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge of the Houston Division, Joseph M. Arabit, and Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) issued the following statement regarding the majority’s intention to advance a one-week stopgap Continuing Resolution.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed H.R. 1873, the “Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act," bipartisan vote of 24-14. Representatives Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR) introduced the bipartisan bill to improve the safety and reliability of the electric grid on federal lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Canadian man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a drug trafficking and money laundering organization that imported Canadian marijuana and MDMA, the club drug also known as “ecstasy" or “mollie," into the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released new documents relating to Lt. General Michael Flynn, who was fired by President Trump from his position as National Security Advisor after concealing information about his communications with the Russian Ambassador to the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: After a winter that brought more low-elevation snow to the Olympic Peninsula than recent years and with signs of spring beginning to unfold, staff at Olympic National Park are working to clean, prepare and make park facilities ready for the spring and summer seasons.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Rockland County, New York, man today admitted his role in a conspiracy to rob a Hawthorne, New Jersey, bar, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
