News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Montana Couple Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced the availability of $27 million in grants to fund innovative projects designed to strengthen market opportunities for local and regional food producers and businesses.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 11, 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), announced that the committee will hold a nomination hearing on Wednesday Jan. 18 at 10:00 AM for Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, whom President-elect Trump intends to nominate to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Barrasso made the announcement after meeting with Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-DE).
By Federal Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall and the Republic of Korea (ROK) Second Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Ahn Chong-ghee, Co-Chairs of the U.S.-ROK High Level Bilateral Commission (HLBC), convened in Washington, D.C. this week to review the HLBC’s ongoing activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges related to child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Washington - The Justice Department announced today that Shire Pharmaceuticals LLC and other subsidiaries of Shire plc (Shire) will pay $350 million to settle federal and state False Claims Act allegations that Shire and the company it acquired in 2011, Advanced BioHealing (ABH), employed kickbacks and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Barry Patonja, age 33, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment on January 9, 2017, by United States District Court Judge Malachy Mannion, for his role in the conspiracy of distributing heroin and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: “REAL-TIME": Greenville man charged in federal court on drug and gun charges to be sentenced on Thursday. Boswell is subject to a mandatory 25-year sentence after pleading guilty to federal drug conspiracy and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Today, U.S. Senator Cory Booker, civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Congressman Cedric Richmond will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in opposition to Senator Jeff Sessions’ nomination for U.S. Attorney General. These Members are being required ...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District, a case about the level of educational...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today unveiled “Health Care Central, " a portal dedicated to providing a one stop shop for all things related to health care reform.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bicameral leaders today sent a letter to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) requesting they analyze the optional Medicaid eligibility and benefit categories that states have chosen to cover and spending for those categories. The letter was sent by full committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Sherry Charleston, age 41, of Denver, Colorado was recently sentenced by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger to serve 18 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, announced the United States Attorney’s Office, IRS Criminal Investigation and Social Security Administration Office of Inspection General. Charleston was also ordered to pay $16,541 in restitution to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Christopher Michael Salisbury, age 38, of Long Beach, California, formerly of Maryland, today to the maximum sentence of 60 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for two counts of production of child pornography.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today unveiled “Health Care Central, " a portal dedicated to providing a one stop shop for all things related to health care reform.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Floyd Albert Sherrell, 34, of Artesia, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Phillip Mahlkuch Will Also Pay a Fine of $7,500.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Elko District, Tuscarora Field Office is in the process of preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) to evaluate impacts of the Rain Mine Closure. Public scoping is now open and public comment will be accepted until Feb. 11, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Troy Mitchell McCormick, 51, of Commerce Township, Michigan, was sentenced yesterday to serve 46 months in prison, announced Jack Smith, Acting United States Attorney for the administration of this case. U.S. District Court Judge Marvin E. Aspen also sentenced McCormick to serve 3 years of supervised release and to pay restitution of $107,586.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: A New York resident pled guilty for his participation in a money laundering conspiracy involving stolen identity tax fraud and a recreational vehicles fraud scheme.
