News from January 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement after announcing the subcommittee chairmen for the 115th Congress...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Even before there was an idea for an American system of national parklands, art and artists played a central role in raising public awareness. In the 19th century, painters from the Hudson River School accompanied expeditions to the American West and became famous for iconic, sweeping landscape imagery...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today announced his selections for Full Committee Vice Chairman and the Committee’s six subcommittee chairmen for the 115th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio today, six more individuals pleaded guilty to their roles in a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy occurring in South Texas, Central Texas and Oklahoma announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Western District of Texas; United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two brothers who owned a West Los Angeles pharmacy were found guilty by a federal jury today of operating a years-long narcotic drug trafficking, money laundering and tax fraud conspiracy that illegally sold prescription narcotics to black market customers across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that, on Jan. 20, DEBRA BIAGI, 50, of Fogelsville, Pa., formerly of Greenwich, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing more than $700,000 from her employer and related companies and individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. B A Kansas City, Kan., man who told investigators he preferred jail to living with his wife pleaded guilty Monday to a federal bank robbery charge, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Pennsylvania Man Pleads Guilty in False Tax Refund Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Shawn McIntosh, 24, pleaded guilty today in federal court on St. Croix before United States Magistrate Judge George W. Cannon to being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: BOISE B Kelly Schneider, 23, of Nampa, Idaho, was indicted on Jan. 10, 2017, by a federal grand jury sitting in Boise for willfully assaulting a person because of the person’s sexual orientation, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. The indictment, unsealed upon Schneider’s transfer into federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: BOISE B Kelly Schneider, 23, of Nampa, Idaho, was indicted on Jan. 10, 2017, by a federal grand jury sitting in Boise for willfully assaulting a person because of the person’s sexual orientation, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. The indictment, unsealed upon Schneider’s transfer into federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - AMANDA HOCK, 35, of Kingsland, Georgia, pled guilty today to having illegal sexual contact with an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma ("FCI-El Reno"), announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. United States District Judge Stephen P. Friot also sentenced Hock to five years of probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, Michael Ray Emry, 54, of John Day, Oregon, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken to unlawful possession of a fully automatic.50 caliber machine gun that was not registered to him.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: JAN 23 - BURLINGTON, VT - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Kevin Tocker-Rose, 30, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. B Two Wichita men pleaded guilty Monday of brandishing or aiding and abetting another robber who brandished a firearm during a bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Jennifer Gmitro (619) 546-9692.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C.-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) geneticist Edward Buckler will receive the National Academy of Science 's first ever Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences for pioneering the use of large scale genomic approaches to associate genes with crop traits. This work gives plant breeders' faster access to key genes and reduces the time needed to improve critical traits enhancing food security.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice and Overlake Medical Center have entered into a settlement agreement to remedy alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA"), announced United States Attorney Annette L. Hayes. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington began the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Detroit One collaboration of local, state and federal law enforcement has led to the guilty pleas of five Latin Counts street gang members for racketeering conspiracy involving murder and drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, Michael Ray Emry, 54, of John Day, Oregon, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken to unlawful possession of a fully automatic.50 caliber machine gun that was not registered to him.
