News from June 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, raised concerns over proposed cuts of nearly $450 million to Department of Homeland Security grant programs that support state and local counterterrorism preparedness programs.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: Due to very dry conditions and increasing fire danger in Southeast Utah, Superintendent Kate Cannon has announced fire restrictions for Arches and Canyonlands national parks, and Natural Bridges and Hovenweep national monuments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena man was named today in a seven-count indictment that charges him with committing a series of bank robberies culminating in an armed robbery in which he allegedly used a loaded shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. sentenced Michael Anthony Holmes, 25, of Fairfield, today to 15 years and eight months in prison for sex trafficking a minor, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Yoder. Let me just say how lucky I am to have you as my chair. You’ve sought my input and made sure that wherever there’s room for bipartisan agreement in this bill, we reach it. Your staff has done the same for my staff and I want to thank them, as well.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Brownsville, Texas, has been sentenced in federal court to 210 months imprisonment and 5 years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics and money laundering laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign is designed to educate GA pilots about the best practices to calculate and predict aircraft performance and to operate within established aircraft limitations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Alvin Wilson, St. Louis, MO, admitted to stealing from an organization that receives federal funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in federal court in Boston for trafficking fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of three members of the Mustafa family crime organization for their roles in a multi-million dollar conspiracy to traffic stolen cellular phones and other electronic devices. KANAN T. MUSTAFA, 40, JAMAL MUSTAFA, 45, and NIZAR MOHAMAD MUSTAFA, 26, were sentenced this week before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: Due to very dry conditions and increasing fire danger in Southeast Utah, Superintendent Kate Cannon has announced fire restrictions for Arches and Canyonlands national parks, and Natural Bridges and Hovenweep national monuments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 50 year old Avery, Texas man was sentenced to federal prison for crimes he committed in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, “Examining the Extension of Safety Net Programs:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 37-year-old Mark Grimes was sentenced to 185 months in federal prison for distribution of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr. and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding a backlog of recommendations issued by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) that date back to almost 30 years. The letter was signed by full committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Lake County man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for his role in a conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining the extension of funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). Funding for both programs is set to expire at the end of September.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Law enforcement authorities have arrested a Monterey Park woman on federal charges of injecting a currently unknown substance - possibly silicone - into a woman’s buttocks during cosmetic procedures that caused so much damage the woman needed a major operation to correct the problem.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding a backlog of recommendations issued by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) that date back to almost 30 years. The letter was signed by full committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX).
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced witnesses for the Committee’s upcoming hearing on conservation and forestry.
