News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Investigation Revealed Defendant Used Hidden Cameras for Sexually Explicit Photos of Children.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Chadrick Lard, 26, of Newport News was sentenced today to 25 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his role in a 2010 Newport News robbery that ended with a murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Gordon Daigle a/k/a Gordon Hill, 38, of Epsom, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for misusing a Social Security number, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. - The next fee-free day of 2017 is just around the corner! In honor of.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) spoke on the House Floor today against H.J. Res. 43, which would allow states to prevent health care providers from receiving any Title X funds if the provider separately performs abortions or is affiliated with health centers...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Michael Marks, 46, Juneau, Wis., William Marks, 44, Columbus, Wis., and Hope Kissinger, 34, Eau Claire, Wis., with drug crimes. The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury sitting in Madison yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Eight with Ties to Heartless Felons Street Gang Charged for Interstate Robbery Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Boca Raton, Florida man was sentenced to 48 months in prison for his role in a computer hacking and identity theft scheme that hijacked customer email accounts to send bulk unsolicited or “spam" emails and generated more than $1.3 million in illegal profits, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz and Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings sent a letter seeking documents regarding payments received by Lt. General Michael Flynn for his trip to Moscow in December 2015 to have dinner with Vladimir Putin in potential violation of the Constitution, as well as all other foreign payments.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining challenges and opportunities for expanding infrastructure, economic redevelopment, and manufacturing through the modernization of certain environmental laws that fall under the subcommittee’s jurisdiction, including the Clean Air Act and the Brownfields provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the owner of a Taney County, Mo., restaurant has been indicted by a federal grand jury for tax evasion and Social Security fraud.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), along with 42 cosponsors, today introduced H.R. 1121, the Pre-Existing Conditions Protection Act of 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Florida Man Indicted in Tax Refund Fraud Scheme.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement after House passage of H.Res. 43, a resolution disapproving of the Obama administration’s rule limiting state choices on Title X funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: CONTACT: Barbara Burns. PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Alexander Rivera-Santiago, 32, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, was sentenced to 33 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Allise Jones, 29, of Lanham, Maryland, was convicted today by a federal jury on charges of conspiracy to commit identity theft, conspiracy to commit access device fraud, two counts of access device fraud, and two counts of aggravated identity theft.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 16, 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), delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor urging his colleagues to confirm Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Barrasso's remarks focused on the need for change at EPA, as well as Attorney General Pruitt's qualifications to lead the agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. B A Shawnee man who was co-owner of a roofing company pleaded guilty today to providing employment, transportation and housing for undocumented workers from Mexico who he knew were in the United States illegally, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) led a group of Committee and House Democrats in introducing the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 2017 (H.R. 1068). The bill would make comprehensive changes to ensure safer drinking water for communities nationwide. The proposal would be the first major update to the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) in over twenty years.
