News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Four men were arrested this morning on charges of heroin distribution and possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Defendant Sold Large Amounts of Heroin and Crack and Illegally Carried Weapons in Brooklyn.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Richard Daniel Lord (58, Jacksonville) to seven years and three months in federal prison for receiving sexual abuse videos of child over the Internet. He was also ordered to serve a life term of supervision and to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A medical doctor who fled the United States nearly 15 years ago and faked his own death to avoid prosecution in a healthcare fraud case was sentenced late this afternoon to 29 months in federal prison for fleeing justice.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said in an interview that he did not want to work Democrats on health care legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Former FCI Ray Brook Officer Charged with Smuggling Cell Phone to Inmate.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers with Hanford Site contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company recently finished retrieving a total of 2,201 drums of waste from trenches in the 618-10 Burial Ground. Buried about 20 feet in the trenches, the drums contained radioactive waste from laboratories in Hanford’s fuel fabrication and research area from 1954 through 1963. Crews will continue remediating the last 14 of 94 waste-filled pipes buried vertically in the burial ground.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: UTICA, NEW YORK - Gilberto Trevizo-Molina, age 46, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to time served (50 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: In El Paso, 41-year-old Joe Vito Venzor faces up to ten years in federal prison after admitting today to illegally accessing his former employer’s computer system and shutting it down announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, today requested a Government Accountability Office (GAO) assessment of the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Office of Natural Resources...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Jeffrey Jackson, age 51, formerly of Baltimore, Maryland today to seven years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for the armed robbery of a post office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Audriana Veneno, 23, an enrolled member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation who resides in Dulce, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a child abuse charge.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Fruit and Vegetable Industry Advisory Committee will host a public meeting May 9-10, 2017, in the Potomac Meeting Room of the Hyatt Regency Crystal City Hotel in Arlington, Va. The committee will meet from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on May 9, and from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 10. The meeting is open to the public. USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service is coordinating the meeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: A 30-year-old Detroit man pleaded guilty today to charges of unregistered possession of destructive devices, Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its primary cleanup contractor URS|CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) are completing comprehensive remediation and final closure of a former pond at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) site.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement regarding the Venezuelan Supreme Court’s move to dissolve the democratically elected National Assembly...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Acting EM Assistant Secretary Sue Cange gathers with students from the DOE-FIU Science and Technology Workforce Development Program at the recent 2017 Waste Management Symposium. Overseen by EM and FIU’s Applied Research Center (ARC), the innovative DOE-FIU Science and Technology Workforce Development...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - EM, Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and United Kingdom nuclear cleanup organizations agreed to develop more tangible collaborative projects at their recent 16th Standing Committee Meeting at the 2017 Waste Management Symposia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Steven Michael Maddox, 56, resident of Anchorage, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline to serve 15 years and 8 months in prison, to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release, for three counts of enticing and attempting to entice minors to engage in sex acts.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: We spend a lot of time in this committee looking at very specific foreign policy issues. Whether it’s the challenges we face as the Mosul campaign in Iraq appears to wind down or the down-in-the-weeds details of Venezuelan politics, we rightly focus much of our attention on the tactical and operational. There’s not much time left for the truly strategic. Let’s face it, that’s the way things have been both at the White House and here in Congress.
