News from March 2017
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Twenty wild horses gathered this winter from the Sand Wash Herd Management Area in northwestern Colorado will be available for adoption April 21-22 in Fruita.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to burglarize residences in Columbia, Mo., and sell the stolen items - including firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: A North Miami resident was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Kathleen M. Williams to 40 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for possessing over 1,000 pieces of personal identifying information of other individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Kevin Ray Stephenson, age 44, of Greenville, South Carolina was sentenced in federal court in Greenville, South Carolina, for Possession of Child Pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A. Senior United States District...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, wrote Acting Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Michael Young to seek information about the Department’s response to recent reports of food safety corruption in Brazil that ...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 22, 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), delivered the following remarks at a committee business meeting to consider S. 512 , the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act. The bipartisan legislation later passed the committee with a vote of 18 to 3.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, March 29, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Federal Energy Related Tax Policy and its Effects on Markets, Prices, and Consumers."
By DOL Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today questioned Alexander Acosta, nominee for Secretary of Labor, about his commitment to prioritize workers and the mission of the Labor Department at a HELP Committee...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA), which needs to be reauthorized before its expiration in September 2017. PDUFA supports the review and regulation of innovative drug products and helps ensure patients receive timely access to safe and effective new therapies.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that PETER SENESE, the Founding Director of the I CARE Foundation (“I CARE"), a purported non-profit organization allegedly dedicated to preventing child abduction and trafficking, was sentenced in Manhattan...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced today that WADE BARBAY, age 54, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has pled guilty before U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles to engaging in a wire fraud scheme to defraud his former employer Axiall Corporation. Through the scheme, BARBAY embezzled approximately $1,406,080. His sentencing date has not yet been determined.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Katie Marie Reavely, age 26, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, entered a guilty plea in federal court in Greenville to Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud, in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. § 1349. United States District Judge Bruce H. Hendricks of Charleston accepted the guilty plea and will impose the sentence after she has reviewed the presentence report, which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX) spoke about the success of the Prescription Drug User Fee Agreement (PDUFA) and the need to quickly reauthorize the agreement at a subcommittee hearing titled, “Examining the Prescription Drug User Fee Agreement Reauthorization:"
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This afternoon, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) met with a South Korean delegation, including Foreign Affairs Minister Yun Byung-Se and Ambassador Ahn Ho-Young, to discuss the importance of the U.S.-South Korea alliance and their concern over North Korea’s recent belligerent actions. Specifically, they discussed H.R. 1644, introduced by Chairman Royce yesterday, which...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced today the unsealing of a 39-page federal indictment charging 18 defendants in Operation Dirty Bird, an extensive federal, state, and local investigation aimed at dismantling a large scale heroin trafficking network based in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Hussain Abdullah, age 39 of Forestville, Maryland, pleaded guilty on March 21, 2017, to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and being a felon in possession of a firearm, related to a scheme to use victims’ stolen identity information to obtain credit. The conspirators used the fraudulent credit cards to obtain money and merchandise.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Cipriano Anaya, 35, of Roswell, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 108 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTONIO FREELAND, also known as “Frezzie," 27, of Burlington, North Carolina, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 52 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for drug trafficking.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following remarks for the record at an Environment Subcommittee hearing titled, “H.R. 806, the Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2017", which would weaken Clean Air Act standards...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., today released new information about the impact of the Republican health care legislation, known as TrumpCare, on Medicare Part B premiums. Specifically,...
