News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in federal prison for brandishing a firearm during a robbery at a convenience store, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Americus, GA- A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 134,216 visitors to Andersonville National Historic Site and 66,440 visitors to Jimmy Carter National Historic Site in 2016 spent $7,847,400 and $3,884,600, respectively, in communities near the parks. That spending supported 133 and 66 jobs, respectively, in the local area. Combined spending at the two parks had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $14,365,600.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a committee oversight hearing on “A Review of the Technical, Scientific, and Legal Basis of the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule."
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “A Review of the Technical, Scientific, and Legal Basis of the WOTUS Rule " Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining a discussion draft of legislation related to the nation’s nuclear waste management.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following remarks for the record for an Environment Subcommittee hearing on consideration of draft legislation titled, The Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker announced the sentencing of BRADLEY THOMAS SMEGAL, 63, to 72 months in prison for stealing more than $5.1 million from several of his investment advisory clients. SMEGAL, who pleaded guilty on Aug. 11, 2016, to two counts of securities fraud, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge David S. Doty in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Caused the IRS to Pay More Than $9 Million in False Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Stuart M. Goldberg, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and James D. Robnett, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: A Reminderville man was indicted on federal firearms and drug charges, Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja said.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following remarks for the record for an Environment Subcommittee hearing on consideration of draft legislation titled, The Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Four defendants, including two sober home owners, the clinical director of a substance abuse treatment center, and a sales representative for multiple diagnostic laboratories were sentenced to prison for their participation in a health care fraud scheme that involved the filing of fraudulent insurance claim forms and licensing documentation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: DALLAS -John Christopher Ware, a/k/a “Little Chris," 45, formerly of Dallas but now residing in Houston, appeared yesterday before U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle and pleaded guilty to a drug distribution conspiracy stemming from his operation of several “pill mills" in north Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Cason “Casey Moreland, 59, of Nashville, Tenn., was indicted by a federal grand jury today on five counts of obstruction of justice, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Alires Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announced that James Wesley Peterson, 32, of Kiln, Mississippi, was sentenced to 204 months (17 years) in prison for traveling across state lines with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, and committing a felony...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Finance Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) announced a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today requesting information about CMS’s sudden and opaque decision to grant $1.5 billion to the state of Florida to fund its Low-Income Pool (LIP) program.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: APR 26 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Careem Bentley, also known as “C-Lows," 33, of Bridgeport, was arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, SC - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 941,514 visitors to Fort Sumter National Monument and Charles Pinckney National Historic Site in 2016 spent $55,049,100 in communities near the park. That spending supported 834 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $69,419,700.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman John Thune (R-SD), House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Senate Communications, Technology, and the Internet...
