News from January 2017
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today issued the following statement on the Senate’s confirmation of Elaine Chao as the Nation’s next Secretary of Transportation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Hector M. Cruz Charged with Raising, Training, and Selling Roosters for Cockfighting at a Backyard Farm in the Bronx.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 47-year-old former Orange County Sheriff’s Detective has been sentenced to federal prison for violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Republicans on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee jammed through the nomination of Betsy DeVos to serve as Secretary of Education, even though she had not provided adequate paperwork and responses to questions from Senator Murray and Democrats about her financial disclosures and support for anti-public education policies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - George Patterson, Bland, MO, was sentenced to 121 months in prison on charges of possession of child pornography.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement today after the Senate confirmed Elaine Chao to serve as secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Jose Nunez (61) of Manchester, was sentenced to serve eight years in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute oxycodone pills, a conspiracy to launder money, distributing controlled substances, and possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement regarding unanswered questions and misleading statements by two nominees, Congressman Tom Price and Mr. Steven Mnuchin, leading to a delay in their scheduled markup...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) expressing serious concerns with the responses submitted by Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, nominee to lead the Environmental Protection ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
Release: LEWISTON, Idaho - An officer with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Lewiston-Nez Perce County Airport (LWS) discovered a loaded firearm Monday morning at the security checkpoint during routine screening of carry-on baggage.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) described the pending chaos for health care at today’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing titled, “Medicaid Oversight: Existing Problems and Ways to Strengthen the Program":
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - Federal and local law enforcement officers made arrests this morning of area men charged by indictment with conspiracy to sponsor and participate in a dog-fighting venture and related charges. The indictment, returned by the grand jury last week, had remained sealed pending the arrests and initial court appearances. The defendants are making their initial appearances in federal court in Rock Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 30-year-old Mexican national has been ordered to federal prison for harboring undocumented aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Adan Hernandez-Nunez pleaded guilty Sept. 29, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles man has pleaded guilty to illegally engaging in the business of importing tobacco products.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: JAN 31 - HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Todd Vernon, 42, of Hartford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine. Vernon also was ordered to pay a $50,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Rebecca C. Buell, 48, of Post Falls, Idaho, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty today to concealment of bankruptcy assets, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. An information was filed against Buell on Dec. 16, 2017.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 31, 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), sent a response to committee ranking member Tom Carper (D-DE) regarding the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) announced subcommittee chairmen and assignments for the 115th Congress. Chairman Bishop issued the following statement.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: The Federal grazing fee for 2017 will be $1.87 per animal unit month (AUM) for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and $1.87 per head month (HM) for lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The 2016 public land grazing fee was $2.11.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - The final seven of eight convicted in a $6 million fraudulent Medicare billing scheme have been ordered to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
