News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RANDOLPH B. MARTIN, age 39, of Metairie, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with violation of the Federal Gun Control Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A federal jury sitting in Laredo has convicted a 46-year-old Belizean man claiming to be a U.S. citizen guilty of attempting to illegally reenter the United States after deportation, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury convicted Jerome Aristedes Martinez, of Belize City, Belize, late this afternoon following a two-day trial.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held a hearing examining the state of America’s evolving energy infrastructure and barriers to innovation, modernization, and further job creation and economic growth. The changing energy landscape and technological...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Angel M. Melendez, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday charging Stephen Plato McRae, age 57, of Escalante, with one count of destruction of an energy facility. The indictment alleges McRae knowingly and willfully damaged and attempted to damage the Garkane Energy Cooperative’s Buckskin substation in Kane County on Sept. 25, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held a hearing examining the state of America’s evolving energy infrastructure and barriers to innovation, modernization, and further job creation and economic growth. The changing energy landscape and technological...
By State Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
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By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 63-year-old The Colony, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Charges Related to September 2016 Incident that Knocked Out Power to Kane and Garfield Counties.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) held a committee oversight hearing on “Modernization of the Endangered Species Act (ESA)." The hearing focused on the need to modernize the ESA in order to better improve recovery rates and the eventual delisting of recovered species. At the hearing, committee members and witnesses, on a bipartisan basis, agreed that the ESA can be improved and modernized.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement after the Trump administration took action to deliver relief from Obamacare’s damage.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner of the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (“DOCCS"), announced today the unsealing of a criminal complaint charging a former New York State Correction...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) spoke about the importance of making real investments in American energy infrastructure for the 21st Century at an Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “Modernizing Energy and Electricity Delivery Systems: Challenges and Opportunities to Promote Infrastructure Improvement and Expansion:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former resident of Old Tappan, New Jersey, today admitted evading personal income taxes on more than $400,000 in income in 2013, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: In Austin today, federal authorities filed a criminal complaint charging 23-year-old Mexican National Hugo Baltazar-Ramirez with assaulting a federal deportation officer last week announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - EM’s Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and contractor Los Alamos National Security (LANS) recently developed a safer and more effective solution to collect groundwater samples for the chromium project at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Nevada man was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for defrauding investors out of more than $5 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jason Wayne Russell, 39, of Moorefield, West Virginia, was sentenced to 33 months incarceration for distributing heroin, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Marilyn Whatley, 38, of Columbus, Ohio was sentenced to 21 months incarceration for transporting stolen goods across state lines, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROY ISIAH JACKSON, also known as “I", 22, of New Haven, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to federal racketeering and firearm offenses stemming from his participation in a violent New Haven-based street gang.
