News from April 2017
By EPA Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today following a news conference on Capitol Hill in response to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s efforts to undercut net neutrality protections. Pallone was joined at the news conference by FCC Commissioner...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today following a news conference on Capitol Hill in response to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s efforts to undercut net neutrality protections. Pallone was joined at the news conference by FCC Commissioner...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today joined President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke for the signing ceremony of an executive order directing the Department of the Interior to conduct a review of national monuments designated under the Antiquities Act since 1996.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Marinela Unguru-Ducila, of Romania, who was sentenced to time served by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. For her role in a bank fraud scheme operated by her husband Nicolae Sarbu.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jose Espinosa, age 48, of New York, New York, was indicted on April 25, 2017, by a federal grand jury on heroin trafficking and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A restaurant owner pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to tax and insurance fraud at 11 Boston-area restaurants and to committing visa and immigration fraud in an effort to remain in the United States unlawfully.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: An Akron man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling fentanyl obtained from China that resulted in a fatal overdose, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Isaiah Moore-Brown, age 28, a Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania resident, was indicted on April 25, 2017, by a federal grand jury on crack cocaine trafficking, cocaine trafficking, and firearms charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today released the following statement on the newly announced executive order directing the Department of the Interior to review the establishment history and current status of national monuments created since 1996 under the Antiquities Act.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The National Park Service (NPS) will be relocating some of the visitor services offered at Acadia National Park headquarters to the Hulls Cove Visitor Center from May 1 through Oct. 31, 2017. The NPS will direct visitors seeking park information and entrance passes to the Hulls Cove Visitor Center to avoid the confusion and congestion of park headquarters during the summer and fall.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Big Hole National Battlefield's visitor center will be open to the public from 9am to 5pm daily, seven days per week beginning on Monday, May 8, 2017.
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: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Darnell Jerome, 20, of Rochester, NY, who was found guilty following a jury trial of making a false statement, was sentenced to three years probation by U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On April 25, 2017, U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Delray Jamare Randall, a/k/a "Black," age 35, of Odenton, Maryland to eight years in prison followed by two years of supervised release for engaging in the business of dealing in firearms and conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Paulo D. Braga, 66, of Standish, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to one year and a day in prison for health care fraud. He was also ordered to pay $89,445 in restitution. Braga pleaded guilty to the offense on Nov. 29, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Cynthia Cave, age 46, of Mount Pleasant, pled guilty in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, to three counts of Filing a False Tax Return, corresponding to tax years 2009-2011, in violation of 26 U.S.C. 7206(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Tad Cummins, 50, of Columbia, Tenn., appeared before a U.S. Magistrate in Sacramento, California today and was ordered to be held in custody, pending his subsequent transfer to the Middle District of Tennessee, to await trial on the charge of transporting a minor across state lines for the purpose of engaging in unlawful sexual activity, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Northern California District Resource Advisory Council (RAC) meeting for Wednesday, April 26, at the BLM Northern California District Office, 6640 Lockheed Dr., Redding, has been postponed to a later date.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: News. The National Park Service makes every effort to keep visitors informed about news events, special events, park programs and services and new or ongoing projects. News releases for Kings Mountain National Military Park will be posted and archived here, so check back to keep current about the happenings...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita woman was indicted Tuesday on federal charges of providing a gun to a man who is charged with shooting and killing three people near Moundridge, Kan., U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
