News from February 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Yesterday, the Committee on House Administration voted on party lines to eliminate the independent Election Assistance Commission. The EAC was created to help states upgrade voting technology and promote critical election-related information sharing. Having up-to-date voting machine technology is critical to ensure they are protected from any potential hacking, tampering, or fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - A former Congressional chief of staff pleaded guilty today for his role in a conspiracy and fraud scheme involving a fraudulent scholarship charity, and for stealing tens of thousands of dollars in congressional salary payments disbursed to a close relative who performed no known work.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Pine Hill Preserve, located in the Cameron Park area, El Dorado County, will offer three guided-plant tours and a bird tour in April/May in different areas of the preserve. The tours, led by volunteer naturalists, are free and open to the public.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: Roosevelt elk (Cervus elaphus roosevelti) are the largest subspecies of North American elk. In the entire deer family, only the moose is larger. Californians are fortunate today to be able to view herds of these magnificent animals; we came very close to losing them.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: California Man Sentenced to Prison for Filing Tax Returns in the Name of Deceased Individuals and Stealing Social Security and Refund Checks.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: FEB. 8, 2017 - Manufacturing was the nation’s leading investor in capital expenditures in 2015 with $239.6 billion spent for structures and equipment, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 Annual Capital Expenditures Survey.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, 45, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced today to 360 months in prison. On March 17, 2016, Kareem was found guilty by a federal jury of conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (“ISIL"), a designated foreign terrorist organization;...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - - A three-count indictment was unsealed today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Richard Jacobellis, 23, from Ridge, N.Y., with distributing heroin that caused the death of 20-year-old Nicholas Weber, and conspiring with others to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, James W. Werner, Special Agent in Charge of the South Central Field Office of the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General (VAOIG), and Matthew R. Barden, Assistant Special Agent in Charge...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - Bureau of Land Management (BLM) law enforcement officers will conduct driving under the influence (DUI) and registration checkpoints from noon to 2 a.m., from February 17 to 20, at several locations within Imperial County.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: Salt Lake City, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management Salt Lake Field Office will soon begin gather operations to remove excess wild horses from within and outside the Cedar Mountain Wild Horse Herd Management Area (HMA) in western Utah.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), and Budget Committee Ranking Member John Yarmuth (D-KY) today sent a letter to...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of false and fraudulent income tax returns, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Lerenzo M. White, aka “Justice" and “Justin," 30, of Columbus, with five counts of human trafficking in an indictment returned in Columbus.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Waltham man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a scheme in which he defrauded hundreds of customers of the now-defunct Tom Harper Cruises of more than $2.9 million in cruise trip deposits.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that David B. Schmitt, 65, of North Tonawanda, NY, who was convicted of tax evasion, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $748,459.75.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, and Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL) have introduced two resolutions of disapproval (H. J. Res 66, H. J. Res 67) to block regulations that jeopardize small business retirement plans, put taxpayers at risk, and undermine the retirement security of working families.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: Defendant Arrested Within Minutes of Final Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An Easthampton man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Springfield to child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
