News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: Stole Company Funds to Buy 2 Porsches, a Mercedes-Benz, 2 Race Cars, and Spent $90,000 at a Steak House, Over $90,000 at Ethan Allen, William Sonoma and Pottery Barn, $55,000 for Washington Redskins tickets, and $14,500 at a Vineyard.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: Concord, N.H.-Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Christopher Clough, 43, of Dover, New Hampshire, was arrested today on charges that he received kickbacks in exchange for prescribing a powerful fentanyl spray to patients in violation of federal law.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - DEA and other federal officials today announced the arrest of Kassim Tajideen, a prominent financial supporter of the Hizballah terror organization. Tajideen is charged with evading U.S. sanctions imposed on him because of his financial support of Hizballah.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael P. Fellicetta, who is handling the case, stated that according to the indictment, between April 2016 and September 2016, the defendants received large quantities of drugs from California that were smuggled into the United States from Mexico. Members of the Drug Enforcement...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today during consideration of TrumpCare, the Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA):
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has prepared a draft Environmental Assessment for an advanced meter system in the City of American Canyon. Reclamation proposes to provide the City with CALFED Water and Energy Efficiency Grant funds to install an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) tower, ...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the Trump administration permitting of the Keystone XL Pipeline.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement upon news that the Trump administration granted a permit authorizing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline this morning...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: In El Paso this morning, 41-year-old Samuel Velasco Gurrola was sentenced to life in federal prison for his role in a murder-for-hire plot announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy, and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in a 1.3 mile, 90-minute hiking tour exploring the devastating effects of Spanish contact on the Mississippian Indians and their ancestors in the Southeast on Saturday, April 8, at 2 pm, at Moccasin Bend National Archeological...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - After a three-day jury trial and four hours of deliberation, Joed Torres-Monge was found guilty of one count of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. United States District Court Senior Judge Juan Pérez-Giménez presided over the trial.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Subcommittee on Environment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today issued the following statement after the State Department approved the Keystone XL pipeline.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Speaker Ryan abruptly ended consideration of TrumpCare in the U.S. House of Representatives...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - Samuel Velasco Gurrola, 41, was sentenced to life in federal prison for his role in a murder-for-hire plot. The sentence was announced by Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy, United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Homeland Security (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, and Federal Bureau of (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- Josué Marrero was sentenced to 72 months in prison for being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Marrero had plead guilty on Nov. 28, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: “The State of the Western Pennsylvania National Parks".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Shawn Collins, 44, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today in federal court to 37 months incarceration for the distribution of oxycodone, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: PRICE, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be hosting three options for guided field tours the first weekend in April as part of the Green River Rock and Mineral Festival in Green River, Utah. These trips are suitable for kids of all ages, although parents with very young children should be aware these trips entail some hiking over rough terrain.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: How fast will a quantum computer be able to calculate? While fully functional versions of these long-sought technological marvels have yet to be built, one theorist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has shown that, if they can be realized, there may be fewer limits to their speed than previously put forth.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 24, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited World Best Tropical LLC, Doral, Fla., for failure to pay for produce.
