News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Marion County man for methamphetamine distribution and gun charges, announced acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - A team helping improve the Idaho Site 's Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) added an entrance to the facility’s primary reaction vessel to replace damaged equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - In Aug. 2016, a multi-agency investigation led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) concluded with the filing of 59 federal indictments and a federal criminal complaint charging 104 Bernalillo County residents with federal firearms and narcotics trafficking offenses. To date, 68 of the 104 defendants charged as the result of this investigation have entered guilty pleas and 30 of them have been sentenced.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Washington - The government of Japan has announced that rising imports of frozen beef in the first quarter of the Japanese fiscal year (April-June) have triggered a safeguard, resulting in an automatic increase to Japan's tariff rate under the WTO on imports of frozen beef from the United States. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Michigan man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Willie McCall, 34, entered his guilty plea to distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted three men on gun charges connected to an April burglary at a Tarrant pawnshop, announced acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Steven L. Gerido.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after last night’s health care vote in the Senate...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after the Senate vote to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its report on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the second quarter of 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A California man was sentenced yesterday to seven years in federal prison for a methamphetamine crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Edgar Zendejas Bedoy, 35, of El Centro, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man who shared dozens of images of child pornography was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - According to signed documents filed today in U.S. District Court in Providence, Evan Speck, 34, of Charlestown, has agreed to plead guilty to an information charging him with possession with the intent to distribute steroids, distribution of a misbranded drug, and money laundering.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: NOAA has extended the deadline for public comment on a federal review of designation or expansion of 11 national marine sanctuaries and marine national monuments, due to “public interest and requests for additional time." The new deadline is August 14. A bicameral letter from Senator Peters, Ranking Member Grijalva, and others, urged the Secretary to extend the public comment period.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Defendant helped three previously-sentenced codefendants fraudulently obtain over $2.1 million from his bank.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Subcommittee on Environment Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Inspector General today requesting a review of Administrator Scott Pruitt’s frequent travel to his home state of Oklahoma at the taxpayers’ expense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Javier Pagan, Jr., 32, of Dunkirk, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, cocaine, was sentenced to time served by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), released the following statement today in response to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement of a new regulatory framework for tobacco products...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Richard Bernard, 38, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was charged today in a 12 count Indictment with distribution of heroin, two counts of possession with intent to distribute heroin, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, possession with intent...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Office of River Protection (ORP) and contractor Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI) recognized the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) team this month for completing assembly of the first of two Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility vitrification melters.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Seward, AK - You are invited! Please join Kenai Fjords National Park in supporting and recognizing the tremendous efforts of youth this summer in protecting, stewarding and helping visitors make meaningful connections to Kenai Fjords National Park and the remarkable community of Seward, Alaska.
