News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: A former part-time Linndale police officer was sentenced more than three years in prison for transporting large amounts of MDMA and marijuana, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Dahveed Dean, age 40, an inmate at United States Penitentiary Canaan, Waymart, Pennsylvania, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on a charge of assaulting a federal employee.
By State Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a hearing to consider options for addressing the growing North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile threat, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today urged the U.S. to “challenge existing assumptions and explore policy alternatives", noting that even as the U.S. ramped up sanctions targeting Pyongyang, the “current approach is not working" to denuclearize the Korean peninsula.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska - Calling all artists! Join us in Fairbanks for the Denali National Park and Preserve Winterfest kickoff and start of the park’s yearlong celebration of its 100th birthday at the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitor Center on Feb. 18!.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Three Cleveland men were sentenced to prison for more than a decade for committing armed robberies in Solon, Bath and North Olmsted, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Trevor Velinor, Special Agent in Charge of ATF’s Columbus Field Division.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon reports that USA Football, the national governing body for amateur football, will make several changes to the rules and format for youth football in an effort to improve player safety and reduce the risks of long-term brain damage...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) described the pending chaos for health care at today’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing titled, “Medicaid Oversight: Existing Problems and Ways to Strengthen the Program":
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Eight people were sentenced to prison this month for their roles in a penny-stock fraud that resulted in a $39 million loss to investors, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Jeremy J. Bohlman, 37, of Plummer, Idaho, was sentenced today in federal court in Coeur d’Alene to 262 months in prison for aggravated sexual abuse and sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered a ten-year term of supervised release following Bohlman’s release from prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the expansion of the Medicaid program under Obamacare.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Today, in an unprecedented move in the modern history of the Senate Finance Committee, Committee Democrats boycotted the confirmation votes of two critical cabinet positions - U.S. Treasury Secretary and Health and Human Services Secretary.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Matthew T. Martin, 32, of Weathersfield, Vermont, was sentenced today to a prison term of fifteen years, followed by five years of supervised release, and $25,514 in restitution. United States District Court Judge J.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 31, 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), released the following statement on President Trump's designation of Kristine Svinicki as chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Svinicki has served as a commissioner at the NRC since 2008.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Democratic leaders today requested information from Volkswagen (VW) President and CEO Hinrich Woebcken on recent reports of delays in the company’s efforts to buy back nearly 400,000 vehicles as part of its October settlements for violating the Clean Air...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Raymond Donovan, the Special Agent in Charge of the Special Operations Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), today announced that four individuals charged with participating in a narcotics importation conspiracy arrived in New York from Kenya.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the expansion of the Medicaid program under Obamacare.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon reports that USA Football, the national governing body for amateur football, will make several changes to the rules and format for youth football in an effort to improve player safety and reduce the risks of long-term brain damage...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Democratic leaders today requested information from Volkswagen (VW) President and CEO Hinrich Woebcken on recent reports of delays in the company’s efforts to buy back nearly 400,000 vehicles as part of its October settlements for violating the Clean Air...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: JAN 31 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that the investigation of two drug overdose deaths in May 2016 has resulted in federal heroin distribution charges against Nestor Santana, also known as “Beans," 29, of New London, and James Butler, 23, of Montville.
