News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native America Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore yesterday sentenced Freddy Orjuela, Sr. (49, Sarasota) to two years in federal prison and to pay $960,020 in restitution for making false statements in a mortgage loan application to a federally insured financial institution. As part of the sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $1,475,950, the proceeds of the fraud.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking nominations to fill seven seats on the Softwood Lumber Board coming open in January 2018. The 19-member board will hold elections to fill the seats of directors whose terms expire on Dec. 31, 2017. The deadline for submitting nominations is March 13, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Eric Michael Perez, age 20, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced late last week by U.S. District Court Judge Philip A. Brimmer to serve 70 months (nearly 6 years) in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and ATF Special Agent in Charge Debora ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Gerald Garrett, 58, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was charged today by Information with the interstate transportation of stolen property in connection with the theft from the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky of a signed LeRoy Neiman print of Muhammad Ali, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: The Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), held a hearing today to discuss the state of career and technical education (CTE) in America, as well as changes that can be made to strengthen CTE and better prepare students for the workforce.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Gerald Garrett, 58, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was charged today by Information with the interstate transportation of stolen property in connection with the theft from the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky of a signed LeRoy Neiman print of Muhammad Ali, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Sami-Joe Daou, 28, of Warwick, was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography. A joint federal, state and local law enforcement investigation determined that Daou possessed images of child pornography, some of which he shared via Facebook.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a letter to Acting Interior Secretary Jack Haugrud today, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) asked for an explanation of the Office of Natural Resources Revenue’s (ONRR) decision to stop enforcing a months-old rule that fixed longstanding problems with the valuation of public...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: CONWAY, Ark. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced that the National Response Team (NRT), who arrived on scene yesterday, will begin processing the site of a fire at the Germantown Apartments today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will meet with the Mojave-Southern Great Basin Resource Advisory Council (RAC) on March 2 at the North Las Vegas City Hall in the 9th floor conference room. The RAC advises and makes recommendations to the BLM on public land management. Discussion items...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Washington - Under regulations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), Lone Star Fruit & Vegetable Inc., operating out of Houston, Texas, posted a $60,000 surety bond.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Hagerstown, MD - The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal) and the C&O Canal Trust invites local high school students to participate in an upcoming history contest. The contestants, through their research and submissions, will help park rangers to discover and share the C&O Canal’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Andrew Young (619) 546-7981.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) transportation program will travel WIPP transportation corridors to support state-sponsored road shows to give the public an opportunity to learn about shipping waste packages to the facility.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, spoke on the House floor, in opposition to H.R. 998, the Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome Act of 2017, or SCRUB Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Affordable and Safe Prescription Drug Importation Act Introduced to Help Lower Skyrocketing Cost of Medicine
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding reports that the Trump Administration aims to cut the State Department budget by 30 percent for Fiscal Year 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Two indictments[1] were unsealed today charging 24 people in violent drug trafficking groups that had operated out of the Norman Blumberg Apartment Complex, a public housing facility in Philadelphia, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The first indictment (Criminal...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Timothy J. Billings, 31, of Whitesville, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 50 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine. The charge carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
