News from February 2017
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS: The Natchez Trace Parkway invites children and their families to come enjoy the Read with a Ranger program at10:00 am on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017, at the Parkway Visitor Center. This month’s featured story is “The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss. Follow the tale of the Lorax as he tries to save the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, and Scott Pruitt, Attorney General for the State of Oklahoma, jointly announce that SHALONDA SUGGS, 36, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Joe Heaton to serve 27 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, and Scott Pruitt, Attorney General for the State of Oklahoma, jointly announce that SHALONDA SUGGS, 36, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Joe Heaton to serve 27 months...
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) sent a letter to Acting Attorney General Dana Boente to demand answers on reports that President Trump intends to overhaul the government Countering Violent Extremism program in a manner that would target and single out Muslim Americans.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a markup convening on Tuesday, January 7, 2017, at 10 a.m., in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 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 3, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Guatemalan national pleaded guilty today to an immigration crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Obed Zabaleta, 23, entered his guilty plea to illegally reentering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Honeywell today sentenced Paul Dale Pollitt, III (40) to 20 years in federal prison for production of child pornography. The Court also ordered him to forfeit the cellphone he had used to commit the offense. Pollitt pleaded guilty on Nov. 15, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- Eric Lundin was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for use and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and FBI Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence follows a guilty plea entered Nov. 10, 2016, in which Lundin admitting using the weapon to enhance or maintain his status with the racketeering enterprise of the Mongols Motorcycle Club.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and investigators from the San Francisco Public Corruption Task Force arrested San Francisco Sheriff’s Deputy April Myres and a former San Francisco Jail inmate, Antoine Fowler, on gun and fraud charges, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Eric Miller has announced his resignation, effective Feb. 10, 2017. In 2015, Miller was appointed to his position by President Barack Obama on the recommendation of Senator Patrick Leahy and was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate. Since then, he has led the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont, which has 45 employees, including 20 attorneys, who enforce all federal criminal and civil laws in the state.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, today issued the following statement on the expected Executive Order rescinding the Department of Labor “fiduciary rule," which House Republicans have also repeatedly attempted to undermine through the Appropriations process.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) issued the following statement after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rescinded a number of orders that the FCC adopted at the end of Chairman Wheeler’s term.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an Oak Lawn, Ill., man and a Springfield, Mo., man have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a heroin trafficking conspiracy in the Springfield area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jodi L. Webber, 37, of Hancock, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by John A. Woodcock, Jr. to a year and a day in prison and five years of supervised release for embezzling bank funds. She was also ordered to pay $19,400 in restitution. Webber pled guilty on Sept. 21, 2016.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today spoke with Australia's Ambassador to the United States Joe Hockey. Representative Engel expressed his deep concern over the recent strain in the relationship between the United States and Australia...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Sylvester Lipscombe, 49, of Newport News, was sentenced to 20 years in prison his role in a string of commercial robberies in Suffolk, Hampton, and Newport News in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Feb. 3, 2017, federal search warrants were executed at the following locations in Des Moines, Iowa.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: WILTON/RIDGEFIELD -- As the National Park Service embarks on its second century of service, Weir Farm National Historic Site is celebrating the significant accomplishments of its centennial celebration and engagement with the Find Your Park / Encuentra Tu Parque initiative, and is planning ahead for visitors in 2017.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This week, the Energy and Commerce Committee kicked off its first full week of hearings on a host of topics ranging from Medicaid to cybersecurity. Members are hard at work already and eager to deliver solutions that bring relief to patients suffering under Obamacare, strengthen Medicaid...
