News from February 2017
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest Resource Advisory Council will meet Thursday, March 2 at the Glenwood Springs Community Center, 100 Wulfsohn Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: Virginia Man Sentenced to 102 Months in Prison for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Today, a federal judge sentenced Patrick Treacy, a/k/a “Redneck" to 20 years in prison for his role in a prescription pill mill that trafficked oxycodone and other dangerous and addictive opioids. Treacy was also ordered to serve a concurrent sentence of 10 years in prions for illegally...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), urged Senate Democrats to stop their delay tactics and for the Senate to confirm Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In his remarks, Barrasso noted Attorney General Pruitt's qualifications to lead the agency and the broad bipartisan support his nomination has received.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Walter Fambro to 3 years and 10 months’ imprisonment for his role in committing stolen identity refund fraud. As part of his sentence, the Court also ordered him to pay restitution to the IRS in the amount of $326,133. Fambro pleaded guilty on Nov. 28, 2016.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry today said the Senate approved the nomination of Scott Pruitt to be the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: After President Donald Trump and House Republicans’ calls to investigate leaks of classified information, all House Judiciary Committee Democrats, led by House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), today wrote to the U.S. Department of Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Joshua Van Haften, 36, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison, to be followed by lifetime supervision, for attempting to provide material support, namely himself as personnel, to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson handed down the sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation engineer Jennifer Bountry, P.E. is the 2017 Federal Engineer of the Year. Bountry's selection was announced at the National Society of Professional Engineers awards luncheon on Feb. 17, 2017, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. In addition to Federal Engineer of the Year, Bountry was selected as the Reclamation Engineer of the Year.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: The report looked at the spending patterns of recreational visitors to the sanctuary region, as well as what they did there. About 41 percent of Washington state’s 2.62 million households visited the Outer Coast, benefiting the economies of an eight-county area near the sanctuary, which includes Clallam, ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the new Subcommittee assignments for the 115th Congress.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: The Energy and Commcerce Committee kicked the week off with a strategic planning session to present ideas and policy goals across all six subcommittees. As the week progressed, the committee held hearings on a range of topics including the benefits of self-driving cars, how to modernize our nation’s energy infrastructure, and the need to revamp outdated environmental laws. Scroll down to view our best photos and videos of the week.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Homayoon Daneshvar, 63, a resident of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for charges related to a $1.9 million investment fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Richard Ramsey, age 48, of Saratoga Springs, New York, pled guilty today to two counts of providing false testimony to a federal grand jury investigating a fire that killed four people in Schenectady and seriously injured another.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: Dual Jamaican-U.S. Citizen Sentenced in Connection with Lottery Fraud Scheme Based in Jamaica.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Thanousorn Kongmanivong, age 45, of Springdale, was sentenced today to 180 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release on one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute More than 50 Grams of Methamphetamine. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Today, Anthony Ray Shirley, 29, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by Chief District Judge Raner C. Collins to 360 months in prison. Shirley, a member of the Tohono O’Odham Nation, was convicted by a federal jury on Oct. 28, 2016 of four counts of aggravated sexual abuse and two counts of abusive sexual contact. Shirley’s imprisonment will be followed by lifetime federal supervised release and he will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced Carlos Sarabasa Cobas (30, Brandon) to three years and five months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud. The Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $123,225.80, and a restitution order requiring Cobas to pay $46,232.45 to the victims of his crime. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 17, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the signing of a criminal complaint charging Mark Charles Barnett (48, Ocala) with possession of a firearm (destructive device) affecting commerce by a previously convicted felon. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. Barnett is currently in custody at the Marion County Jail on state charges for violating his terms of probation.
