News from March 2017
By State Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at a press conference with Democratic committee members to discuss the threat to American security and leadership posed by the Trump Administration’s proposed draconian cuts to the international affairs budget...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Watch The Full Hearing Here . At a hearing to reexamine the structure of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and senior Judiciary Member and Subcommittee Ranking Member Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today called out President Donald Trump’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney John Stuart Bruce announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced RGB, Inc., a business known as Godwin Music in Selma, NC, and Raleigh Amusements in Garner, NC to 4 years probation. RGB pled guilty to Conducting...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that an Angolan national was sentenced to six months in prison for refusing to leave the country twice after being ordered to depart.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Gettysburg National Military Park’s Artist-in-Residence for March/April will be Itamar Reiner, an International artist from Israel, who will pursue contemporary interpretations of classic subjects through digital media and plein-air painting during his month-long residency on the Gettysburg battlefield.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: In work that could help make possible a faster, longer-lasting and lower-energy method of data storage for consumers and businesses, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have developed a technique for imaging and studying a promising class of magnetic devices with 10 times more detail than optical microscopes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALEX LICHTENSTEIN, a/k/a “Shaya," was sentenced in Manhattan federal court today to 32 months in prison for bribery and conspiracy to commit bribery in connection with his payment of tens of thousands...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Operating Under a Deputy of Osama bin Laden, the Defendant Participated in Attacks Against U.S. and Coalition Soldiers in Afghanistan Resulting in the Death of Two American Service Members and Conspired to Attack U.S. Diplomatic Facilities in Nigeria.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today made the following statement on President Trump’s 2018 Budget Request.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: Lance Crick (864) 282-2105.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Patrick E. Churchville, 48, owner and president of ClearPath Wealth Management, LLC, formerly located in Providence and Barrington R.I., was sentenced today to 84 months in federal prison for orchestrating a $21 million dollar Ponzi scheme that deceived more than 110 investors; stealing $2.5 million dollars of investors’ funds to purchase a waterfront home; and failing to pay more than $820,000 in personal federal income taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Neil Sweeney, 51, was sentenced on Monday, March 13, 2017, by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to 17 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release. In October 2016, Sweeney was convicted by a federal jury of possessing and distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Matthew Muller, 39, of South Lake Tahoe, was sentenced today to 40 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: At a press conference today, Democratic members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs spoke out against the Trump Administration’s budget proposal, which would cut the international affairs budget by nearly a third. The members underscored that cutting diplomatic and development efforts would harm...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: “In response to allegations of misconduct, this Office, along with the FBI, has been investigating fundraising by and on behalf of Mayor Bill de Blasio for his 2013 election campaign, the Campaign for One New York, and the 2014 State Senate effort. We have conducted a thorough investigation into several...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Yesterday afternoon a federal jury convicted two South Florida men for their participation in an alien smuggling ring that moved Cuban-born baseball players and their families to third countries and then the United States, without official authorization from the U.S. Government.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement on President Donald Trump’s FY2018 Budget...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Federal Lands held an oversight hearing on ways to improve infrastructure and management at the National Park Service (NPS) and the Forest Service (USFS).
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: President Trump's 2018 budget request is a betrayal of his promises, and would have a disastrous impact on job security; health; schools; safe, clean, and secure communities; and American leadership. It is a framework to shift more and more burdens onto the shoulders of working families.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. March 16, 2017 - Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and Sequoia Parks Conservancy are happy to announce that a new Executive Director for the Conservancy has been chosen. After an intensive search, Karen Dallett, will lead the organization into summer 2017 and forward.
