News from June 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: MOOSE, WY -The closed portion of the Gros Ventre /Kelly Road in Grand Teton National Park is anticipated to open to alternating one-lane of traffic in the affected area within the next two weeks. Park engineers, in consultation with subject-matter experts with Federal Highway Administration and a local...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Dana Michelle Lawrence, 43, of Nashua has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with fraudulent use of a social security number.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - At today’s hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Dr. John Floros, Dean and Director of the College of Agriculture and Kansas State University Research and Extension, testified on agriculture research conducted at land-grant institutions.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Russell Jim, a Yakama Nation Tribal Elder who has worked for years on behalf of tribal interests at the Hanford Site, received an honorary doctorate in humanities from Heritage University in Toppenish, Washington, June 5. Jim, shown here with his wife, Bobby, was honored “as a traditional...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Greenville, South Carolina, returned Indictments against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States has filed a complaint to civilly forfeit $1,902,976 from Mingzheng International Trading Limited (Mingzheng), a company based in Shenyang, China. The complaint alleges that Mingzheng is a front company that was created to launder United States dollars on behalf of sanctioned North Korean entities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Sardar Ashrafkhan of Ypsilanti, Michigan, was sentenced today to 23 years in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute prescription pills, conspiracy to commit health care fraud, and money laundering, Acting U.S. Attorney Daniel Lemisch announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Honduran woman was charged with possession with intent to distribute approximately three kilograms of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found MICHAEL GRAMINS, 33, of New York, N.Y., guilty of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV), the cleanup contractor for EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP), earned $338,205, or 75 percent of a possible $450,694 award fee for the September 2016 to March 2017 performance period, according to a.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today advanced three bills to the full committee for consideration that modernize the nation’s environmental laws and energy infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found MACKENZY NOZE, 32, and JONAS JOSEPH, 33, also known as...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: The Ranking Members of four congressional committees today announced a letter requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) look into evidence that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was improperly lobbying Congress to support the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a clear misuse...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) probe, special agents assigned to the HSI San Juan Child Exploitation Investigations Group (CEIG) arrested Tuesday and Wednesday seven men on child exploitation charges. The arrests were part of law enforcement operation targeting child predators dubbed “Firewall" that took place in Lajas, Orocovis, Aguada, Cataño, Florida, Carolina and Ponce.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - David E. Schultz, 50, of Saint Louis County, Missouri, was indicted on two counts of wire fraud. According to the Indictment, Schultz induced victims into giving him or his son money or merchandise in exchange for services he claimed capable of providing or on the promise that he would...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), hosted a bipartisan Internet of Things (IoT) Showcase on Tuesday that featured 21 participants from across the country. Check out this video recap of companies displaying their products and services and discussing how this cutting-edge technology is transforming life for consumers and businesses.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) wrote Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to request information about the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) role in the Trump Administration’s ongoing review of certain national monuments containing acreage ...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr.’s (D-NJ) opening remarks as prepared for an Environment Subcommittee Markup of: H.R. 806, the “Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2017;" H.R. __, the “Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2017;" H.R. __, the “Brownfields Enhancement, Economic Redevelopment, and Reauthorization Act of 2017" are enclosed below...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Adam Flanagan, 42, of Bala Cynwyd, PA was sentenced yesterday by the Hon. Paul Diamond to 12 months, 1 day in prison, based upon his plea of guilty to two counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer and thereby recklessly causing damage, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. Flanagan was indicted on Nov. 22, 2016, arrested without incident on Nov. 23, 2016, and plead guilty on March 7, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: In Austin today, a federal judge sentenced 23-year-old Mexican National Hugo Baltazar-Ramirez to 18 months in federal prison for assault on a federal deportation officer in Austin in February announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
