News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Defendant Found Guilty By a Jury Last Week of Another Burglary.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Meg Martin (Civil War Trust) 202.367.1861 x7231.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Hartford Police Chief James C. Rovella, today announced the unsealing of a 31-count indictment charging 16 individuals with federal narcotics offenses related to the distribution of heroin and crack cocaine in Hartford. The indictment also charges four of the defendants with firearm and robbery offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Clark Corbin, 41, of Ranson, West Virginia was sentenced in federal court today to 18 months incarceration for heroin distribution, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Assisted in filing at least 65 returns with a loss to the IRS of over $300,000.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: HEYBURN, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation will increase flows from Jackson Lake Dam above the winter flow of 300 cubic-feet-per-second (cfs) to approximately 650 cfs tomorrow, March 9, and again to 1,000 cfs on Friday, March 10. Additional increases from Jackson Lake Dam are likely in the coming weeks. Flood control discharges continue at Palisades Dam, and more increases are likely next week.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that three previously deported aliens were indicted separately by a federal grand jury on illegal re-entry charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a conspiracy to sell more than 1.5 kilograms of cocaine and more than 87 grams of cocaine base in the Trenton area, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore has prepared a Cultural Landscape Report/Environmental Assessment (CLR/EA) for the Sand Point US Coast Guard Life Saving Station in Munising. The park is seeking guidance for addressing critical issues such as universal access, vegetation management, and visitor amenities. The public comment period will be open for 30 days, beginning March 9, 2017.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Dear Mr. Acosta: I am writing today to request that you voluntarily provide three years of tax returns as I have requested of all of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees and specifically those before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (“HELP"). As you may know, in December...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Andre Allen, age 25, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani on Feb. 28, 2017, to 60 months’ imprisonment for possessing a firearm in furtherance of his drug trafficking activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that LEROY SMITH, age 33, of New Orleans East, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute 100 grams or more of acetyl fentanyl and 100 grams or more of heroin, and one count of possessing firearms in furtherance of his drug-trafficking activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Eleven-Year-Old Kaitlyn Stofiel Located. The Warm Springs Police Department located 11-year-old Kaitlyn Stofiel and her father, Thomas Stofiel, a few minutes after 10 this morning, March 8, 2017. An FBI agent and a Warm Springs detective were driving separately down Highway 26 approximately 25 miles...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management announced today it has issued a Decision Record for the Soda Fire Fuel Breaks Project, located in Owyhee County, Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted former Maryland State Delegate Michael Lynn Vaughn, age 59, of Bowie, Maryland, for a bribery conspiracy in connection with a scheme in which he allegedly accepted bribes in exchange for influencing the performance of his official duties, as well...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 8, 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 floor speech urging her colleagues to reject a Congressional Review Act (CRA) that would weaken the Every Student Succeeds Act and give Secretary DeVos a blank check to promote her anti-public school agenda.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Winchester, Ky., man, who previously admitted to hacking and taking control of a high school sports website, to gain publicity for his online identity and harass and intimidate the website owner and others, has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., entered a guilty plea in federal court in Johnstown to a charge of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former New Jersey lawyer was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy that caused lenders to release $40.8 million based on fraudulent mortgage loan applications and laundered the proceeds of the fraud, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing to look at Russia’s global efforts to undermine democratic states. The hearing, entitled “Undermining Democratic Institutions and Splintering NATO: Russian Disinformation Aims, " will begin at 10 a.m.
