News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: A Canton man was indicted on child pornography charges, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) was confirmed to be the nation’s next Secretary of the Interior by a bipartisan vote of 68-31.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Federal agents arrested seven Baltimore City Police Department (BPD) officers today for a racketeering conspiracy and racketeering offenses, including robbery, extortion, and overtime fraud. The indictment was returned on Feb. 23, 2017, and unsealed today following the execution of arrest and search warrants. One of the officers also was charged in a separate drug conspiracy indictment, also unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: A 45-count indictment was unsealed charging a Toledo man with conspiring to traffic heroin and cocaine, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans held its first oversight hearing of the 115th Congress, Modernizing Western Water and Power Infrastructure in the 21st Century. The hearing examined ways to protect existing water and power infrastructure and alleviate cumbersome regulatory barriers to construct new facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - One man and two women, all of South Texas, have been ordered to federal prison following their guilty pleas to charges of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The sentencing was announced by Special Agent-in-Charge of DEA’s Houston Division, Joseph M. Arabit and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: A Youngstown man pleaded guilty to selling heroin that resulted in a fatal overdose, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: For some, it is a shocking revelation. But most Americans eventually come to accept the fact that a “two by four" board is actually 1.5 inches by 3.5 inches (38 x 89 mm). But is it really? How accurate are the dimensions of boards found at hardware stores and lumber yards? It’s the job of state and local inspectors to answer that question by making measurements periodically at retail locations, or earlier in the supply chain.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: Washington - In a complaint filed on Dec. 14, 2016, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cited American Fruit and Produce Corporation (American Fruit), of Opa Locka, Fla., for failure to make full payment promptly in the total amount of $2,842,249 to 38 sellers for multiple lots of produce in violation of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: Fort Pulaski National Monument Seeks Volunteers for Park Day.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: Dear Chairman Hatch: We write to urge you to use your authority as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance to request the tax returns of the President and his businesses for review by Committee members in closed executive session. As you are aware, there have been numerous reports in the media...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., has returned an indictment charging Jesse Furse, 34, with federal child pornography offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, New Mexico Attorney General Hector H. Balderas, Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the Albuquerque...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI -Selmo Watts, 34, of St. Thomas pleaded guilty in federal court today to breaking into a Post Office, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., has returned an indictment charging Jesse Furse, 34, with federal child pornography offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, New Mexico Attorney General Hector H. Balderas, Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the Albuquerque...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: The DOE-funded Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) is offering a free public webinar that will present a real-time data-driven approach for monitoring and mitigating potential data quality issues. This proposed approach is able to identify bad data during both normal and fault-on conditions. The webinar will also explore the dimensionality reduction of real-world synchrophasor data.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - An Edinburg couple has been convicted for their roles in a sex trafficking of minors conspiracy in which two minor females engaged in commercial sex acts, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced H.R. 1265, the Investing in America: Rebuilding America’s Airport Infrastructure Act. This legislation will generate billions of dollars...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of a South Carolina temporary staffing company was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a multi-year visa fraud conspiracy that placed unauthorized foreign workers at multiple Cape Cod businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 26-year-old federal prison inmate has pleaded guilty to possession of a shank in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), today slammed the federal agency in charge of immigration, after they declined to attend a hearing focused on Missouri and Washington state murder cases in which the alleged perpetrators had entered the United States illegally.
