News from February 2017
By EPA Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today in response to a decision from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) limiting nine companies’ involvement in the Lifeline Program...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: On Sunday, February 12th at 1 :00 p.m., William Howard Taft National Historic Site invites the public to join us for a specialized program entitled, "Jameson Jenkins" as we celebrate Black History Month. Park Ranger Jason Boyd will perform a reenactment of Mr. Jenkins, a Springfield Illinois neighbor who lived five blocks south of Abraham Lincoln. Hear how Mr. Jenkins was a business man, drayman and a conductor of the Underground Railroad.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was ordered detained in federal custody today for allegedly possessing thousands of photographs and videos of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today in response to a decision from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) limiting nine companies’ involvement in the Lifeline Program...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on a proposal to offer 28 parcels totaling about 29,600 acres of federal minerals in northwestern Colorado in the December 2017 competitive oil and gas lease sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Fadi Yassine, age 42, a Lebanese citizen, was arrested last evening as he disembarked an international flight arriving in New York City.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Violated His Pretrial Release by Obtaining a Computer and Distributing Child Pornography and Was Ordered to Be Detained Pending Sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Aaron Matthew Reed, 37, of Romney, West Virginia, and Sean Dickerson, 29, of Martinsburg, West Virginia were sentenced today for separate drug crimes, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Donald Perkins, 29, of Rutland, was sentenced to forty-eight month’s imprisonment by United States District Judge J. Garvan Murtha. The term of imprisonment will be followed by a three-year period of supervised release by...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today in response to a decision from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) limiting nine companies’ involvement in the Lifeline Program...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Kentucky woman was stopped by Transportation Security Administration officers at the Huntington Tri-State Airport on Friday, Feb. 3, when the TSA officers detected a handgun in one of the woman’s carry-on bags.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: New Hampshire Man Sentenced to Prison in Computer Hacking and “Sextortion" Scheme Involving Multiple Female Victims.
By State Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing to assess North Korea’s nuclear program. The hearing, entitled “Countering the North Korean Threat: New Steps in U.S. Policy, " comes amid several recent high-ranking North Korean defections.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LORENZO MALCOLM, 28, of Groton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 66 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for gun and drug offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: ICE, FBI Recognize International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was ordered detained in federal custody today for allegedly possessing thousands of photographs and videos of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Defendant Admits Embezzling Funds from Four Athletes, Using Money for Own Personal Benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Fadi Yassine, age 42, a Lebanese citizen, was arrested last evening as he disembarked an international flight arriving in New York City.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Memphis man has pleaded guilty to armed robbery. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Julian Harris, 34, Chicago, was sentenced Friday, February 4, by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 30 months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in a counterfeit gift card fraud scheme. Harris pleaded guilty to this charge on Nov. 1, 2016.
