News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Jesus Garo, 28, of Pawtucket, today was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for trafficking cocaine and crack cocaine. According to information presented to the court, prior to this most recent drug trafficking conviction in federal court, Garo was previously convicted in Rhode Island state court on drug related charges on four occasions, including twice for drug trafficking, and had been shot and wounded at least twice.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man who operated a construction company that did work at construction projects at two military bases in New Jersey today admitted paying bribes and kickbacks to get the contracts, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Free Land was the Cry!. Digitized Homestead Records from the National Archives. Now Available Online for Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Nevada, and Ohio. For the first time, Land Entry Case Files: Homestead Final Certificates - Record Group 49: Records of the Bureau of Land Management from the National Archives...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: MONTE VISTA, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management may initiate several short-term road closures in the San Luis Valley. As temperatures increase and accumulated snow begins to melt, some roads may be temporarily closed to motorized and mechanized travel.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) sent a to Acting Administrator McCabe at the Environmental Protection...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold three public meetings in March to gather comments on the Draft Resource Management Plan Amendment and Draft Environmental Impact Statement for oil and gas leasing and development in the BLM’s Central Coast Field Office.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Friday, Feb. 17, 2017, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) sent a letter to Acting Administrator McCabe at the Environmental...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby Rush (D-IL) sent a letter to President Trump today urging him to reconsider his decision to remove the Secretary of Energy from the Principals Committee of the National Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - An April trial date has been set for a Kankakee, Ill., man charged with committing robberies of businesses in Champaign and Kankakee in July and August 2016. Thomas James, 33, of the 500 block of S. Indiana Ave., Kankakee, Ill., made his initial appearance in federal court on Feb. 16, on the charges. James has been ordered to remain detained in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. Trial is scheduled on April 18.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan group of Senate and House health committee leaders today sent colleagues a letter to highlight the importance of immunizations, saying: “Vaccines save lives."
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), announced a hearing for Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Ways to Improve and Strengthen the Anti-Doping System."
By EPA Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), announced a hearing for Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Ways to Improve and Strengthen the Anti-Doping System."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Kentucky man, who operated a marina on Lake Cumberland, has been sentenced to 50 months in federal prison for bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Former Jackson Police Officer Melvin Williams, 48, pleaded guilty on Feb. 17, 2017 to bribery, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Feb. 14, 2017, Cathy S. Konkol (age: 52) of Neenah, Wisconsin, was sentenced in Federal Court in Green Bay to 3 years’ prison to be followed by 3 years’ supervised release after her guilty plea to using an unauthorized access device (credit card) contrary to Title 18, United States Code, Section 1029(a)(1).
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign aims to educate GA pilots on the best practices to calculate and predict aircraft performance and to operate within established aircraft limitations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Kentucky man, who operated a marina on Lake Cumberland, has been sentenced to 50 months in federal prison for bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Michael Rose, 29, of New Carlisle, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to attempted extortion under the color of law.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: In preparation for the high visitation season, Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area is partnering with UltraNautRunning, McCreary County, and Explore Kentucky Initiative for a trail and river cleanup along the Sheltowee Trace National Recreation Trail, between the historic K&T Heritage Trail Bridge and the Yamacraw Bridge, in Stearns, Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Angel Nunez, age 28, of Brooklyn, New York, and Stanislav Petkevichus, age 28, of Slingerlands, New York, were each sentenced today for conspiring to distribute the controlled substance oxycodone in Albany County.
