News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: FORT WAYNE - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Frankie Williams a/k/a “Molly" of Fort Wayne, Indiana entered a plea of guilty to counts 3 and 4 of the indictment which charged her with submitting false claims for payment to the Internal Revenue Service...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers are nearing completion of work at the 618-10 Burial Ground, where they removed waste from 80 vertical pipe units (VPUs).
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 28, 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), released the following statement on President Trump's executive order to revise the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers' Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Richland Operations Office (RL) is making strides toward mitigating highly radioactive soil underneath the 324 Building near the Columbia River.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Dec. 28, 2016, a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging Amalia López-Santiago, a former treasurer of the American Postal Workers Union (“APWU") Local 1070 (the “Union"), with embezzlement of funds of said labor organization in an amount...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Richard Wayne Scott, 40, of Waynesboro, Virginia, was convicted of methamphetamine distribution today, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was indicted today by a federal grand jury on fraud charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Eric Charles Murray, 32, of Hampton, was sentenced today to 88 months in prison for his role in establishing and operating a high-tech credit card forgery lab in his home in 2016. Murray was also sentenced to five years of supervised release, which includes computer monitoring software on any computers Murray may have.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford woman was sentenced in federal court today by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for making false claims for federal income tax refunds and using other persons’ identification in connection with the fraudulent claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Richard Nofsinger Took Advantage of Vulnerable Women to Get Close to Children.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - U.S. District Judge Sheri Poster Chappell has sentenced Nesly Loute (52, Naples) to 14 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to commit mail fraud. In addition, the Court ordered him to pay restitution in the amount of $2,146,147.23 to the victim automobile insurance companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Phoenix, Ariz., man and woman have been charged in federal court after five kilograms of cocaine were found in their truck during a highway interdiction.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) is advancing toward Vision 2020 - its goal to complete cleanup at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) by 2020 and continue transferring the remaining land to private industry, benefiting the regional economy.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after President Trump signed an Executive Order that attempts to roll back protections for water sources across the country included in the Clean Water Rule, which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized in 2015.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) spoke about the importance of preventing doping in international sports at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on “Ways to Improve and Strengthen the International Anti-Doping System:"
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Climbing routes on cliffs used by nesting Peregrine Falcons in Zion National Park will be temporarily closed beginning March 1, 2017 in order to protect these birds which are in recovery from “endangered species" status. The closure date is based on analysis of data collected from 2001-2016 regarding the peregrines’ arrival time to their nesting cliffs in the park.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following statement after President Donald Trump signed an executive order providing relief from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ‘Waters of the U.S.’ (WOTUS) rule.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following statement after President Trump delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management is announcing it is preparing an environmental assessment for a travel management plan that will encompass public lands within and around the west half of the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area. A public meeting will be held and comments sought to assist the BLM in identifying appropriate areas for motorized and non-motorized use.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The former owner of the Myriad Ballroom in Mendon, Mass., was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Worcester for tax fraud.
