News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Defendants ordered to pay $1,486,164.45 in restitution for theft of cigarettes from Leitchfield, Kentucky warehouse. Stolen cigarettes were driven to New Jersey/New York area for sale.
By Federal Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released its second annual analysis detailing the impact of changes in America's energy profile on national employment across key economic sectors. The 2017 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER), based on a supplemental survey of over 30,000 energy sector employers, highlights significant growth in various sectors of the U.S. economy throughout 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after the House passed S.Con.Res. 3, which would lay the groundwork to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and cause nearly 30 million Americans to lose their health insurance...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Jackson County couple was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden in a prescription fraud and embezzlement case, announced U. S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, Acting U. S. Trustee Henry G. Hobbs, Jr. of Region 5, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze, and DEA Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Jan. 16, Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site invites the public to a special program celebrating the city’s unique and diverse history. At 2 p.m. Kitty Snow, author of Up & Down Church Hill and From a Richmond Streetcar, will share photographs of Richmond...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Federal Officials Close Investigation into Use of Force by School Resource Officer at Spring Valley, South Carolina, High School.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) today issued the following statement after Takata agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud and reached a settlement with the Department of Justice following its defective airbag scandal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Justice Department and State Partners Secure Nearly $864 Million Settlement With Moody’s Arising From Conduct in the Lead up to the Financial Crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that eight members of a violent St. Joseph, Mo., gang have been charged in a RICO indictment that alleges they committed murder, five attempted murders, drug trafficking and armed robberies, among other crimes, as part of a criminal enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Dr. Richard Andrews, 64, of Dallas, who was an owner and the sole supervising physician at the McAllen Medical Clinic located on South Hampton in Dallas, appeared in federal court this afternoon before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and pleaded guilty to two conspiracy offenses stemming from his involvement in a “pill mill" operation, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon news that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decided to maintain the current greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model years 2022-2025 cars and light trucks...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Three Takata Executives Charged with Wire Fraud and Conspiracy.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack appointed 17 members and 17 alternate members to serve on the Cotton Board. All appointees will serve 3-year terms ending on Dec. 31, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Former Paintsville Mayor, Robert Porter, has been sentenced to 48 months for misappropriating property and city resources.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the statement below following the announcement of Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin’s confirmation hearing on Jan. 19, 2017...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Eastern States today submitted to the Federal Register for publication a notice of the U.S. Forest Service’s (USFS) application requesting that the Department of the Interior withdraw ecologically significant lands within the Superior National Forest in northern Minnesota from new mineral and geothermal exploration and leasing. Publication of this notice temporarily segregates the lands for two years, subject to valid existing rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Zachary Shames, 21, of Great Falls, pleaded guilty today to charges of aiding and abetting computer intrusions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Zachary Lee, age 25, of Catonsville, Maryland, and Robert Walker McDaid, age 19, of Coventry, England, United Kingdom, on charges related to a scheme to provide false information to cause an emergency services response, a practice known as “swatting." The indictment was returned on Jan. 11, 2017, and unsealed today upon the arrest of Lee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: MISSOULA - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today the completion of a Montana operation that convicted eight defendants for methamphetamine distribution and illegal possession of 68 firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition. The operation, which joined numerous law enforcement agencies...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Kenel, South Dakota, man charged with Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on January 4, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
