News from January 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-Pa.) today introduced bipartisan legislation to permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) Act. In the more than 50 years since it was first passed with overwhelming support from Republicans and Democrats, the LWCF has come to be recognized as America’s most important conservation program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Philadelphia - a federal jury in Philadelphia convicted Abdoulaye Diallo on all counts of an indictment charging him with defrauding the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, and with conspiring to do so, announced Acting United States Attorney...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: NAPA, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Central California Area Office
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) issued the following statement on a new Department of Transportation Inspector General (IG) report that outlines the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) contingency plans for recovery from large-scale disruptions to the air traffic system...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that KEVIN GONZALES, age 25, of Houston, and EARL BROWN, age 32, of New Orleans, were sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to a conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. (Jan. 12, 2017)- House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. joined Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the top Ranking Democratic Members of 21 House Committees in sending a letter urging House Speaker Paul Ryan to join them in demanding documents about President-Elect Donald Trump’s worldwide business dealings...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: **PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE** The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will hold a hearing on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017 at 9:30 a.m. EST in Room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the hearing is to consider the nomination of the Honorable Rick ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando Valley woman who pleaded guilty to three felony charges stemming from a scheme in which she submitted fraudulent bills and illegally collected approximately $1 million from HBO was sentenced this morning to 30 months in federal prison.
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: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging Armando Moronta, a federal correctional officer employed by the United States Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York (MDC), and Alicia Alonso, the girlfriend of an inmate being held at the MDC, with carrying out a bribery scheme to bring contraband into the MDC for inmates.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management, (BLM) Winnemucca District, Black Rock Field Office, is pleased to announce the results of the Burning Man Post Event Inspection (PEI) for the 2016 event. This year’s PEI took place on October 4, 2016 by a team comprised of six BLM staff and approximately 37 of Black Rock City’s (BRC) Playa Restoration Crew, known as “Resto."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Virena L. Ousley, 25, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 12 months and one day in federal prison for conspiring to distribute crack cocaine. Ousley pleaded guilty to this charge on Sept. 12, 2016.
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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Washington - a statutory maximum sentence of life imprisonment, a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years’ imprisonment, and a $12,500,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Baxter Healthcare Corporation to Pay More Than $18 Million to Resolve Criminal and Civil Liability Relating to Sterile Products.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 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 Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) Superintendent, David Hallac, and other members of the Seashore staff, will be available to answer questions related to the amended Final Rule for off-road vehicle (ORV) management at two public meetings.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Portland, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today that the Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management has signed a public land order for a 20-year term withdrawing lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service and the BLM in the southwest corner of Oregon, subject to valid existing rights.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: The Keweenaw National Historical Park Advisory Commission will convene for its regular quarterly meeting at 1:00pm on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017 at park headquarters located on the corner of Red Jacket Road and Hwy. US-41 in Calumet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A federal jury sitting in Charleston returned a guilty verdict yesterday in the trial of a Roane County man for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. William Leon Rhodes, 50, of Gandeeville, was convicted following a one-and-a-half-day jury trial.
