News from March 2017
By DOE Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Also Charged with Defrauding Nursing Home, Family Friends.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, led his colleagues in calling for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt to address the apparent conflict of interest regarding his participation in EPA's ...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today held a hearing to continue the Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s discussion of opportunities to improve and expand American infrastructure. Tuesday’s hearing focused on infrastructure beneficial to federal lands and waters, as well as the people and communities who live near and rely on them.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Six people were indicted for their roles in a conspiracy to bring methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine to Ohio from California and then sell the drugs here and in West Virginia, Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARC HENRY JOHNSON pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman to acting as an accessory after the fact to a narcotics offense. As alleged in the Indictment to which JOHNSON pled guilty and the related criminal Complaint, JOHNSON helped move an unresponsive woman’s body out of a Manhattan apartment where the woman had overdosed on cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation and PacifiCorp may be increasing releases from Upper Klamath Lake at Link River Dam to maintain adequate flood control capacity in Upper Klamath Lake. The increased releases, if needed, would be a result of increased inflows to Upper Klamath Lake due to recent and forecasted precipitation in the Upper Klamath Basin. The exact timing and magnitude of increased releases will be
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Tuesday, March 28, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining FDA’s Medical Device User Fee Program."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: Beth Drake (803) 929-3000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Louis Frances Bradley, age 66, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty on March 20, 2017, to production of child pornography. Bradley has four previous state convictions on charges related to the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Norman Yazzie, 56, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to ten years in prison followed by four years of supervised release for discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to discuss the FDA user fees agreement. Senator Murray, along with all 11 Democrats on the HELP Committee, had pushed.pdf) Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) to focus the hearing on the House Republicans’ Trumpcare bill that could be on the House floor in a matter of days.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: A former Tukwila and Snoqualmie Police Officer was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to nine months in prison and one year of supervised release for Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law for an attack on a handcuffed man at a Seattle hospital, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former Butler County resident has been sentenced in federal court to six months imprisonment and six months of home detention, to be followed by five years of supervised release, on her conviction of bank fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today. The defendant was also ordered to pay $62,842.57 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: FBI Announces Executive Appointments. FBI Director James B. Comey has announced the following leadership appointments: Arlene Gaylord Named Assistant Director for the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity Affairs. Ms. Gaylord most recently served as the section chief of the Global Intelligence Section...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Joseph Spradlin (41, Cape Coral) to 30 years’ imprisonment for producing and possessing child pornography. He pleaded guilty on December 9, 2016.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ahead of today’s #SubOversight hearing, Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) previews the growing public health threat of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Jarratt A. Turner, 35, of Nashville, Tennessee pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Nashville, to 16 counts of Production of Child Pornography and one count of Transportation of Child Pornography, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Broadband: Deploying America’s 21st Century Infrastructure:"
