News from February 2017
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Washington - Rural Development Acting Deputy Under Secretary Roger Glendenning today announced that USDA is making loans to electric cooperatives that will help continue to deliver safe, reliable and affordable electricity to rural residents, business and institutions in nine states.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after President Donald Trump laid out his health care reform proposals in a joint address to Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Dimitrous Jefferson, 27, of St. Croix, pleaded guilty today in federal court on St. Croix to conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement in reaction to President Donald J. Trump’s first address to the joint session of Congress.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today sent a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), continuing their oversight efforts in examining the agency’s Laboratory Response Network (LRN). The LRN was established to boost our federal preparedness for bioterrorism.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Potomac - On Friday, February 24 at approximately 5:50 p.m. a body was recovered from the water near Old Angler’s Inn in Potomac, Maryland.
By EPA 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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MATTHEW DRAGONE, 32, of Middletown, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for robbing six banks, and attempting to rob a seventh bank, in 2015.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the international anti-doping system. The hearing came after a bipartisan July 2016 letter to the International Olympic Committee and a series of reports on doping incidents.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months in prison and five years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Today, Congressman José E. Serrano, the Ranking Democrat on the Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Subcommittee, responded to testimony from Members of Congress in support of a number of programs contained in the CJS bill.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva today said the Trump administration’s widely reported intention to slash the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget and foreign assistance to pay for what President Trump last week called “one of the greatest military buildups in American history" is more proof that Trump has lost his moral authority as a national leader.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, George P. Beach II, Superintendent of the New York State (NYSP), and New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: Brendon M. Collier, 39, of St. Louis, MO, was sentenced on Feb. 24, 2017, on two counts of bank robbery, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. Collier was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 36 months on each count, to run concurrently...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an El Dorado Springs, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: On March 27-29, 2017, the Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC ) will hold its Industry Workshop in Tempe, AZ. Funded by the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate, CREDC is a five-year...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: Gitano Pierre Bryant, Jr., 56, of Palmetto Bay, was sentenced today to a consecutive term of 48 months’ imprisonment, by U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga, for fraudulently evading $13 million in Federal taxes on imported cigars. Bryant, who was on probation at the time of the offense, was previously sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment, by Chief U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore, for violating the terms of his probation.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: Gwen Bausmith, (202) 254-2296 WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today awarded $196,760 to Bastille Networks, Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia, to advance Internet of Things (IoT) ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2017 – Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Roger Glendenning today announced that USDA is awarding $19.3 million in loans to provide broadband in rural portions of Illinois and Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: The owner and CEO of a Greenbelt, Maryland building contracting company was sentenced to 68 months in prison for stealing more than $1.7 million from Local 657 of the Laborers Union of North America (LIUNA) and other related offenses.
