News from March 2017
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management has extended the public scoping period for the Canyonlands West and Grand View Travel Management Plans’ (TMP) environmental analyses through April 21, 2017. This extension is in response to multiple public requests to allow more time for review and to provide feedback about issues to be considered in the environmental analyses.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In their latest attempt to manufacture opposition to popular and effective environmental laws, House Republicans are holding a hearing at 10 a.m. today to attack the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and wrongfully blame the Act for delaying development and infrastructure projects. Republican...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement in reaction to President Trump’s most recent executive order related to domestic energy production.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - ATF’s International Response Team (IRT) Team Supervisor Paul Claflin and a lead certified explosives specialist will arrive on the Island of Saint Lucia today to assess the March 21 explosion scene that occurred at the Rayneau Quarry. The explosion killed three and injured more than 20 individuals, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held an oversight hearing on delays and uncertainty related to Endangered Species Act (ESA) consultations. Subcommittee Chairman Raúl Labrador (R-ID) reacted to testimony from witnesses that recounted personal experiences with extensive delays as a result of ESA consultations that ultimately jeopardized human health and safety, harmed small businesses and, in many cases, further imperiled species.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Southbridge man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with being a felon in possession of a firearm, distributing drugs and attempted money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A former U.S. Congressman and one of his associates were indicted today for their roles in orchestrating a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from charitable foundations and the individuals who ran those foundations. Some of the funds were used to illegally finance the politician’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: Iraqi Refugees Arrested and Charged With Immigration Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: Vlad Diaconu, 36, of Bucharest, Romania, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Nashville, to one count of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jack Smith of the Middle District of Tennessee and Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former salesman at Bayway Lumber, a Linden, New Jersey company that sold commercial and industrial products to numerous public and private entities, was charged today with defrauding Bayway Lumber customers and knowingly making false statements before a federal grand jury, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Shawn Brown pled guilty to one charge of mail fraud. Brown appeared today before United States District Judge Ronnie L. White. Sentencing is set for June 29, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a Lafayette man was sentenced to 41 months in prison for possessing a pistol and ammunition after being convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: The United States Will Seek More Than $26 Million in Forfeiture From The Defendants Upon Their Convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Five defendants appeared in federal court and admitted robbing the Education Credit Union in Amarillo, Texas on Sept. 23, 2016, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: Fugitive Douglas Pereira Lemes Arrested in Panama.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Carrollton, Mo., woman was convicted in federal court today of a $185,000 bank fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Celvin Eulice Ramos-Meija, a/k/a “Cadejo," age 21, of Columbia, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy and attempted murder in aid of racketeering related to his membership in La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: March 28, 2017 - The U.S. Census Bureau delivered its planned subjects for the 2020 Census to Congress, which include gender, age, race, ethnicity, relationship and homeownership status.
By State Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks at the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations hearing on East Africa’s quiet famine...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Three Canadian residents and their company have been charged by Information in Pittsburgh with conspiring to distribute wholesale quantities of misbranded prescription drugs made for the foreign market and money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
