News from January 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) praised the passage of the budget resolution to begin the repeal process of Obamacare and highlighted a number of priorities in the effort to replace the health law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a man arrested near Kansas City, Mo., has been charged in federal court with attempting to entice a missing Springfield, Mo., teen to engage in illicit sexual activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., praised the U.S. Trade Representative’s move to bring a trade case against Chinese aluminum subsidies today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management finalized the plan for the 210,000-acre Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area, including the Dominguez Canyon Wilderness, by signing a Record of Decision for the area this week. The Dominguez-Escalante NCA includes portions of Mesa, Delta and Montrose counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A Shelbyville, Ky., woman, previously convicted of photographing images of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct, has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) new Gila District Manager, Anthony “Scott" Feldhausen was part of a BLM Recreation Mapping Project Team recently honored in Washington, DC with a Presidential award for improving customer service through technology.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: As part of the Department’s commitment to working with communities and law enforcement to build stronger relationships and mutual trust, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch today announced the release of the “Attorney General’s Community Policing Report," a summary of the Attorney General’s twelve-city...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
Release: Washington, DC, Jan. 12, 2017 - Breastfeeding rates increased sharply over the past 20 years among women participating in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, based on the findings of a new USDA study.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for the attempted sex trafficking of a minor.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Well-preserved artifacts recovered from snow patches in the high country of Alaska and the Yukon coupled with Native oral histories are providing a fascinating picture of how Athabascan people hunted, trapped, and gathered resources in alpine areas before western contact. Richard VanderHoek with the Alaska Office of History and Archaeology will bring artifact re-creations and explain how ice patch archaeology is helping us better understand how people lived here long ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The organizer of a bank fraud scheme in which Wells Fargo Bank employees stole customer account data - information that was used to impersonate scores of customers and steal well over a half-million dollars from their accounts - was sentenced today to 89 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Doctors Worked at Eight Fraudulent Medical Clinics in Brooklyn That Paid Elderly People to Act as Patients, and Billed for Unnecessary or Non-Existent Medical Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Nathaniel Eddie Madrid, 39, of Roswell, N.M., pled guilty this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to violating the federal firearms laws by unlawfully possessing firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Esequiel De Jesus-Bello, 40, of Mexico, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Jan. 12, 2017, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Jesus-Bello was arrested in Douglas, Wyoming. He received time served, plus ten days, was ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Anthony Margarito Berumen, 32, of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to methamphetamine trafficking charges. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Berumen will be sentenced within the range of three to ten years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Public comment period open through March 14, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced Simon Peter Danielson (37, Vancouver, British Columbia) to 10 years in federal prison for his role in a scheme to transport 250 kilograms of cocaine by boat from the Caribbean to the east coast of Canada. Danielson pleaded guilty in May 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: A Rocky River man was indicted on drug and firearms charges, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Alexander Duarte, 23, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of discharge of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking and conspiracy to distribute heroin, was sentenced to 330 months in prison by U.S District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
