News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Wendy J. Olson, United States Attorney for the District of Idaho, resigned effective Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017. U.S. Attorney Olson had served in that office since June 2010. She had been an Assistant United States Attorney with the District of Idaho since 1997.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that, on Feb. 24, 2017, YACOV OCASIO, also known as “Little," 21, of Hartford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: MARTISNBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dr. Christopher J. Murphy, 53, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was convicted of unlawfully distributing alprazolam and lorazepam, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: Steven D. Blosser, 40, of Columbia, IL, was arraigned on Feb. 24, 2017 on federal indictment charging him with receipt of child pornography, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Stamford, Connecticut, man today admitted paying bribes in order to secure a contract between his metallurgical technology company and a medical device company, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) and US Department of Energy (DOE) are excited to announce the public release of the final Foundation Document for Manhattan Project National Historical Park.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - After Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) sent a letter to Acting Interior Secretary Jack Haugrud on Friday questioning a Department of the Interior (DOI) blog post that falsely claimed repealing the Stream Protection Rule would save 7,000 “clean coal" jobs, E&E News reported...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Benjamin Jenkins (36, Mims) guilty of distributing and possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute it, possessing a firearm in furtherance of that drug-trafficking crime, and using a telephone in...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Gregory Hull, 22, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to offenses stemming from his role in a series of armed robberies that targeted commercial businesses in Washington, D.C. and Maryland during a four-week period in 2015.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Wilbur Ross as Secretary of the Department of Commerce.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement regarding President Trump's budget blueprint that promises to slash funding for agencies, including massive cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that VICTOR LIPKIN, a former owner of a health care clinic in Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in a massive health care fraud scheme through which three medical clinics in...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement regarding Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter's request to the state Supreme Court to delay the release of documents that former Oklahoma Attorney General, and current Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Scott Pruitt has refused to disclose for over two years.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking the agency to review the harms to consumers of eliminating rules that protect consumers’ privacy.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Wilbur Ross as Secretary of the Department of Commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Deptford, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for robbing five New Jersey banks and one Pennsylvania bank between June 2015 and September 2015, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Columbia, Mo., man has been charged in federal court with sex trafficking a minor.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking the agency to review the harms to consumers of eliminating rules that protect consumers’ privacy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man, who served as the senior accountant of the City of Bayonne Department of Community Development (CBDCD) was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for accepting $65,000 in bribe payments in exchange for his assistance in awarding projects funded by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grants, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced that Kenya complies with international safety standards and has been granted a Category 1 rating under the agency’s International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) program.
