News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Defendants Agree to Forfeit $87,000 in Cash and Three Vehicles; Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) team is putting their own spin on the phrase, "Where the rubber hits the road." Using biotech tools, the team has developed an improved variety of guayule plant as a natural source of tire rubber.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL BENNETT, 29, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 51 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A member of a scheme that used secret card-reading devices and pinhole cameras on PNC and Bank of America ATMs to steal at least $428,581 pleaded guilty today in Newark federal court.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Joshua Tree National Park is asking visitors, specifically those driving in the park, to look out for wildlife on the roadways and in parking lots. In the past week, three desert tortoises have been killed by vehicles. Two of the tortoises were run over by vehicles in a campground.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: KANARRAVILLE, Utah - Maintenance to the town of Kanarraville’s water system will close the hiking trail to Kanarraville Falls through the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Spring Creek Canyon Wilderness Study Area (WSA) to ensure public safety from April 3-6.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment charging Jess A. Leon, 66, of Leetonia, with theft of government property and false statements and fraud to obtain federal employees’ compensation, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., Jim Risch, R-Idaho, Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., Deb Fischer, R-Neb., and Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., this week introduced S. 733, the Sportsmen’s Act of 2017. This bipartisan package expands and enhances sportsmen’s access by making federal lands throughout Alaska and the nation “open unless closed" for fishing, hunting, recreational shooting, and other outdoor activities.
By State Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the abduction and murder of UN investigators and their support staff in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEROME HUNTER, also known as “Rome," 32, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., delivered a statement on the Senate floor blasting a Republican vote to abolish auto-IRA laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSEPH CERVONE, a certified public accountant, pled guilty to tax fraud charges before the U.S. District Judge Nelson S. Román this morning. CERVONE pled guilty to one count of endeavoring to obstruct and impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws and one count of subscribing to false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Davis Jacobs, 27, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced on March 28, 2017, to one year of probation, including six months of home detention, 200 hours of community service, and a $1,000 fine, for unlawful possession of Gamma-Butyrolactone (GBL), Acting United States Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Jacobs was charged in an information.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Dear Administrator Verma: We write regarding the 2018 Advance Notice, released on Feb. 1, 2017, that contains policies that impact the Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D programs. We are concerned that some policy change proposals included in the 2018 Advance Notice would have a negative impact...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - A woman visiting an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Lee County, Virginia has pled guilty to providing that inmate with a prohibited object, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: ting his call for Committee action on the Protecting Our Democracy Act and the SECURE Our Democracy Act, which address Russian interference in last year’s election...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Missouri Man Indicted for $12 Million Tax Refund Fraud, Voter Fraud, Illegal Reentry and Felon in Possession of Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Rosemary Ofume and Donatus Iriele, the husband and wife owners of Medicine Center Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia, have been convicted after a three-week jury trial on federal drug and money laundering charges for illegally dispensing controlled narcotics to customers of the “pill mill" pain clinic...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and Bill Cassidy, R-La., this week sent a letter to President Trump urging him to nominate an economic geologist to be the next director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The letter also encourages the president to refocus the agency on its primary mission, which is to assess U.S. mineral reserves.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: In celebration of National Park Week, on the weekends of April 15 - 16 and April 22 - 23, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is waiving the entrance fee to Point Park, atop historic Lookout Mountain.
