News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey D. Hill (619) 546-7924.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: Democratic leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Science, Space & Technology Committee sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt today expressing concerns and raising questions about the recent dismissal of nine members of the EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker announced the sentencing of DREW WILLIAM GRAVES, 29, to 41 months in federal prison for a violent assault committed on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. GRAVES, who pleaded guilty on Dec. 29, 2016, was sentenced on May 17, 2017, before Senior Judge Paul A. Magnuson in U.S. District Court in.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Timothy Vallier, 31, of Ada, Michigan, was sentenced in federal court for attempted sexual exploitation of children and possession of child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Byerly Birge announced today. U.S. District Judge Gordon J. Quist imposed a sentence of 22 years. In addition to the prison term, Vallier was ordered to serve 5 years of supervised release, to pay restitution, and to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage man was sentenced yesterday in federal court for possession of child pornography and failure to register as a sex offender.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a markup of the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2017...
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: Democratic leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Science, Space & Technology Committee sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt today expressing concerns and raising questions about the recent dismissal of nine members of the EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors.
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee markup of three legislative bills including the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017...
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced today that two pulse flow releases from Whiskeytown Dam into Clear Creek will be made in June to attract adult spring-run Chinook salmon to upstream Clear Creek habitats for holding and spawning purposes.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River Site ’s Containment Fabrication Facility achieved a perfect record in the last year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that COREY SENIOR, 26, of New Haven, was arrested yesterday on a federal criminal complaint charging him with heroin distribution offenses. The charges stem from an ongoing statewide initiative targeting narcotics dealers who distribute heroin, fentanyl or opioids that cause death or serious injury to users.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2017
Release: NEW YORK - The Transportation Security Administration, Delta Air Lines and JFKIAT, LLC jointly launched new automated security screening lanes in Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) today, introducing state-of-the-art checkpoint technology to one of the busiest airports in the country...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for his role in a carjacking, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that, a Federal Grand Jury in Columbia, South Carolina, returned Indictments against the following.
By US DOT Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Vice Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN), and Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Water Resources and the Environment...
By DOL Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today approved with unanimous support bipartisan legislation to improve career and technical education (CTE). Introduced by Reps. Glenn “GT" Thompson (R-PA) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), the Strengthening Career ...
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS S&T Press Office (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON —The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and its counterparts in the Netherlands jointly announced today an opportunity to provide up to $2.6 million of funding for collaborative cybersecurity research projects conducted by joint U.S.-Dutch teams.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 BRUSSELS – Today, European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, Dimitris Avramopoulos, and European Commissioner for Transport, Violeta Bulc, hosted a delegation from the United States in Brussels, led by Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke, to discuss issues related to aviation security and safety.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it reached a settlement agreement with Washington Potato Company and Pasco Processing, LLC, which operate a fruit and vegetable processing facility located in Pasco, Washington. The agreement resolves a discrimination lawsuit the Justice Department filed against the companies on Nov. 14, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Robert Gilbeau was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for lying to investigators to conceal his illicit 20-year relationship with Leonard Glenn Francis, the owner of Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), the foreign defense contractor at the center of a major bribery and fraud scandal.
