News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: A Palo business owner who provided false testimony before the federal grand jury was sentenced on January 4, 2017, to 10 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Elizabeth J. Schreiber, 37, of Scio, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to Speaker Paul Ryan’s announcement that the reconciliation bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act will also defund Planned Parenthood...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: FAIRMONT, W.Va. - When a co-worker severed part of his thumb in July 2014, a food processor at a beef jerky manufacturing plant acted quickly, helping him apply pressure to the wound and using her cellphone to call 911. Before responders could answer, the company's owner ordered her to hang up. Two days later, she was terminated.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Bergenfield, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for her role in a conspiracy to traffic approximately two kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico to New Jersey.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 5, 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 after meeting with President-elect Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Department of Labor, Andrew Puzder.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: FORT SMITH, Ark. - A Fort Smith man, Richard David Hulsey, 46, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and United States Attorney Kenneth Elser of the Western District of Arkansas.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Staff in the Natural Resource Stewardship and Science (NRSS) directorate celebrated the National Park Service Centennial throughout 2016 in many ways. We work to apply science-based solutions to natural resource challenges in all of our parks, from air quality to light pollution to fossil protection to climate change. The scientific work done by our staff in collaboration with park staff inspires stewardship of the many natural resources within our parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for embezzling nearly $5.3 million from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: A former employee in the Procurement Section of the Miami-Dade County Aviation Department has been charged with accepting bribery payments.
By Federal Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
Today, Secretary Moniz and the U.S. Department of Energy released a Cabinet Exit Memo illustrating the Department's work under the Obama Administration. The memo details efforts in addressing nuclear security, investing in science and innovation, and pursuing an "all of the above" energy strategy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Four individuals in three states were arrested yesterday in connection with a nation-wide internet steroid distribution business in which raw steroids imported from China were processed and prepared in Florida, and then ordered over the Internet by, and mailed to, customers across the nation.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today announced new staff selections to the Committee. Joe Shultz will continue to serve as Staff Director and Jacqlyn Schneider will continue as Deputy Staff Director/Policy Director for the Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Travis Hayslip, 34, of Carlsbad, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating the federal firearms laws when he ignited the fire that destroyed the Quality Inn Hotel in Carlsbad on March 9, 2016. Hayslip also was ordered to pay $2.4 million in restitution to Choice Hotels for the damage he caused to the hotel.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and Energy and Commerce, released detailed state-by-state fact sheets summarizing the devastating effects on individuals and families if President-elect Trump and congressional Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
By DOL Newswire | Jan 5, 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 after Republican leadership announced the reconciliation bill dismantling the Affordable Care Act would also include measures to defund Planned Parenthood.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: According to court records, on May 31, 2014, Barnard barricaded himself in his camper with a.22-caliber semi-automatic rifle and ammunition beginning a 14-hour stand-off with police. During the stand-off, Barnard fired the weapon and proclaimed that “this is war." Near the end of the standoff, Barnard...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - January 5, 2017 - Three Clarksville, Tennessee men were sentenced yesterday in connection with their involvement in a major drug distribution conspiracy in the Clarksville, Tenn. area between 2013 and 2015, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. All were indicted in October 2015 after an investigation by multiple law enforcement agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - DEBORAH A. GRAY, 60, and KEITH B. GRAY, II, 26, both of Oklahoma City, each pled guilty yesterday to three counts of health care fraud in connection with submitting false claims to Medicaid for behavioral health counseling services, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, and Scott Pruitt, Attorney General for the State of Oklahoma.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to Speaker Paul Ryan’s announcement that the reconciliation bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act will also defund Planned Parenthood...
