News from March 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement following the Senate’s passage of a resolution of disapproval from Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) that will roll back Federal Communications Commission (FCC) broadband privacy protections and prevent the commission from instituting similar protections in the future...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ring in spring with a visit to a national park during National Park Week, April 15 through 23. Throughout the country, hundreds of programs and events will encourage visitors to explore new places and enjoy new experiences. More information is available at www.nationalparkweek.org.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of STERLING KYLE ANDERSEN, 24, to 30 years in prison for second degree murder. ANDERSON, who was indicted on Feb. 1, 2016, pleaded guilty on November 9, 2016, before U.S. District Judge Ann D. Montgomery in Minneapolis, Minn.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Draft Environmental Assessment and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed long-term exchange agreements (through Feb. 28, 2030) between the California Department of Water Resources, Del Puerto and Oak Flat...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - David A. McComb Jr., 32, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 77 months in prison for possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joel Martinez, 31, of Socorro, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 60 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: FBI Statement on Arrest in Israel in Connection with Threats to Jewish Organizations.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued an updated score detailing the effects of TrumpCare...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: An osteopathic doctor pled guilty for his participation in a multi-million dollar health care fraud and money laundering scheme that involved the filing of fraudulent insurance claim forms and defrauded health care benefit programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A citizen of Mexico, who had been removed from the United States multiple times in recent years, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke on Federal immigration charges, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Blair County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today issued the following statement after the Senate passed a broadband privacy CRA. Chairman Blackburn has introduced an identical privacy CRA in the House.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today issued the following statement after the Senate passed a broadband privacy CRA. Chairman Blackburn has introduced an identical privacy CRA in the House.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Date: March 23, 2017. TUCSON, Ariz. - Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Tucson Field Office released its plan to prune two ailing cottonwood trees located in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area. With the potential for catastrophic trunk failure, falling branches present hazards...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued an updated score detailing the effects of TrumpCare...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing on the nomination of former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue to be the next U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MICHAEL TAYLOR, age 48, and LESLIE PECK, age 35, both of Houston, Texas, were sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a two-count Indictment for violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act. TAYLOR and PECK each pled guilty to conspiring...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging MARYSE LIBURDI with defrauding...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced a federal indictment charging EDWARD S. ADAMS, an attorney and university law professor, with orchestrating an elaborate fraud scheme to embezzle millions of dollars of investors’ funds. ADAMS is expected to make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis later this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Ringgold man was sentenced to 63 months in prison for possessing 11 firearms and ammunition after being convicted of a felony.
