News from February 2017
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Pecos, NM: Pecos National Historical Park will offer a free night photography session with park noted volunteer park photographer Stan Ford on February 25th. This evening program will explore the methods and practice of nighttime photography. Visitors interested in the tour are advised to reserve a spot as space is limited to 10 attendees.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: The Senate is now debating the nomination of Steven Mnuchin to be Treasury Secretary. And this is yet another nomination on which the majority has walked away from a 20 year, bipartisan approach when it comes to the vetting process. In 2009 when Tim Geithner was President Obama’s first Treasury nominee,...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - Roosevelt Williams, aka “Mumsie," 59, was sentenced to a term of 12 years in prison, and forfeiture of over $100,000 in drug proceeds and property, for his extensive heroin dealing in and around Poughkeepsie, New York. As set forth in Williams’s plea agreement, and the materials submitted...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Hagerman, ID - Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument is hosting a special “Duck Day" Celebration on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 from 9 am to 1 pm for ages 8-12. Kids will be able to create their own nature journal/sketchpad, learn about waterfowl ecology and behavior, and get inspired to enter the Junior Duck Stamp art competition. The program will be held in the park visitor center, located at 221 N State Street in Hagerman.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Sean Michael Moser, 27, of Elkins, West Virginia, was convicted for methamphetamine distribution, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Two New York City Residents Pleaded Guilty to All Charges in Terrorism Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. - - Thomas A. Burnell, 34, of Plattsburgh, New York, was charged today with distributing heroin resulting in another person’s death. Burnell is detained pending a detention hearing before Magistrate Judge Gary L. Favro on Feb. 14, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Daniel Volonino, Jr., 29, Ronald Lockwood, 43, and Michael Ingham, 23, all of Rochester, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to distribute and distributing oxycodone, a Scheduled II controlled substance. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to White House Counsel Donald McGahn today raising concerns that a recently issued Department of Energy (DOE) rule may chill nuclear safety whistleblowers and discourage the reporting of safety violations at our nation’s nuclear...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Donald McCloud Long (50), Sarah Ann Long (33), Armando F. Aman (37), all of Jacksonville, and Shelby Travis Phillips (26, Savannah, GA) with conspiracy to manufacture, distribute and possess...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Scott Slagel, 41, of Westerly, RI, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., to three years probation for operating a butane hash oil lab in his Westerly residence. Slagel pleaded guilty on May 13, 2016, to endangering human life while illegally manufacturing a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - Daniel R. Goodwin, an attorney from McLean, Virginia, has been convicted of defrauding a Laurel County construction company, in connection with a purported project to build a “green recycling center" in Manchester, Ky. The company, Elza Construction, LLC, lost $1.32 million upfront and incurred several million dollars more in excavation and site preparation costs, but nothing was ever built at the site.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court yesterday, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced KHAALID SHARIF FREDERICK, 36, of a Garysburg, NC to 80 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today announced that the subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, March 8, 2017, examining the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) reauthorization, budget, spectrum auctions, and proceedings. All three current commissioners are set to testify.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, Munther Omar Saleh of Queens, New York, pleaded guilty at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to all charges in an indictment charging him with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and with assaulting and conspiring...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: (Richmond, CA) - On Sunday, February 19th at 2:00pm, a special panel of speakers will discuss how Executive Order 9066 - issued exactly 75 years earlier - impacted their lives during and following World War II.
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee event...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: Avon man embezzled over $580,000 from the Hendricks Power Cooperative.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today announced that the subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, March 8, 2017, examining the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) reauthorization, budget, spectrum auctions, and proceedings. All three current commissioners are set to testify.
