News from February 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - After the House Republican majority’s just-concluded vote to repeal the Interior Department’s rule prohibiting methane waste on public lands - a vote that caps a week spent slashing environmental and corporate disclosure rules - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva said the Republican majority has proven that giving away public goods to private entities is all the majority seems to know how to do.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Company had work sites in Georgetown, Winchester and Cynthiana.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - During an interview on CNBC’s “Closing Bell", U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today credited the Trump administration for imposing new sanctions on Iran following Tehran’s most recent ballistic missile test that violated a U.N. Security Council resolution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that Jahkeel Joseph, 23, resident of Anchorage, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to 16 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Joseph pleaded guilty on Oct. 11, 2016, to a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: JACKSON, MS-Eight additional members or associates of the Black Gangster Disciples and Vice Lords Street Gangs have been arrested on federal drug charges in southeast Mississippi. In the afternoon of Feb. 2, 2017, FBI agents, task force officers, and sheriff’s deputies arrested the following suspects in southeast Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: SFSD Deputy April Myres Gave Firearm To Convicted Felon She Met At San Francisco Jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that a federal jury convicted former Miami-Dade Police Detective William Kostopoulos, 49, with using his law enforcement authority to violate the civil rights of two motorists as well as obstructing justice. Kostopoulos is scheduled to be sentenced before United States District Judge Marcia G. Cooke, in Miami, on April 19, 2017 at 9:30 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest of U.S. Postal employee Badi Mohamed (30, Jacksonville) on Jan. 31, 2017, for conspiracy to defraud the United States, theft of government money, and theft of mail. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years’ imprisonment, and he could be ordered to pay at least $20,741 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Salt Lake City-The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Resource Advisory Council will host a meeting on Feb. 23 and 24, 2017 in St. George, Utah. On Feb. 23, the RAC will meet from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. On Feb. 24, the RAC will meet from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. An optional field tour of the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area will take place on Feb. 24 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that three men have pleaded guilty in Hartford federal court to charges related to the armed robberies of the Allingtown Post Office in West Haven and the Wells Fargo Bank in Hamden on April 21, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A North Carolina heroin dealer was sentenced today to a year and a half in federal prison for a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Adam Denson, 29, of Gastonia, previously pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming State Office has posted its proposed list of parcels for the quarterly competitive oil and gas lease sale scheduled for Thursday, June 22, 2017. This sale is being held online at energynet.com.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney, Deborah R. Gilg, announced that on Feb. 3, 2017, Travis John Haas, 37, of Lincoln, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, (120 months), for his role in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a substance containing methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that PAAL KLYKKEN, 35, was sentenced to 78 months in prison and supervised release for seven years for distributing and receiving child pornography. KLYKKEN pled guilty on Sept. 1, 2016, before U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni, who also imposed today’s sentence.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, kicked off 30 hours of debate on the Senate floor prior to the final vote to confirm President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Feb. 3, 2017. Benjamin Edward Henry Bradley, 33, of Detroit, Michigan, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison, for his role as the primary supplier of tens of thousands of diverted prescription pills that were shipped from the Detroit area into Middle Tennessee, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Yesterday, Pedro Ojeda-Ramirez, 24, and Ulises Alaim Saijas-Zamorano, 22, both of Mexico, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson to prison terms of 140 months and 60 months, respectively. Both had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Benjamin Edward Henry Bradley, 33, of Detroit, Michigan, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison, for his role as the primary supplier of tens of thousands of diverted prescription pills that were shipped from the Detroit area into Middle Tennessee, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, today issued the following joint statement after President Trump took action to delay implementation of the Department of Labor's flawed fiduciary rule...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and U.S. Bureau of. Reclamation (Reclamation) have released for public review the draft Initial. Study and Environmental Assessment (IS/EA) for the proposed Fremont Weir. Adult Fish Passage Modification Project, located in the northern...
