News from May 2017
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS: Still young and going strong at 79 years old! Drop in, eat a cupcake while they last, and wish a happy birthday to the Natchez Trace Parkway. This national park transverses the state of Mississippi, nips the corner of Alabama, and lands straight in the heart of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Escape from Custody was sentenced on May 12, 2017, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- Steve McVay was sentenced today to 56 months in prison for concealing assets in a bankruptcy proceeding, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Judge, following a guilty plea entered by McVay on Jan. 25, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on May 16, 2017, Childlove Gelin, 25, was sentenced to 66 months in federal prison after his guilty plea to charges that he distributed heroin and cocaine base, and that he conspired to distribute heroin and 28 grams or more of cocaine base. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss also ordered that Gelin serve four years of supervised release after his prison term.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Brookline, Mass. - Brookline is the hub of activity for the celebration of President John F. Kennedy’s 100th birthday on Monday, May 29. John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site, the JFK birthplace, and several partner organizations have put together a lineup of activities throughout the day and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New...
By State Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Reps. Kristi Noem (R-SD) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) alongside House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) today introduced H.R.2484, the Women, Peace, and Security Act. This bipartisan legislation would require the U.S. to develop a comprehensive strategy to increase and strengthen women’s participation in peace negotiations and conflict prevention globally.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House Ways and Means Committee today announced the witnesses testifying before the Committee on May 18th at a hearing entitled “How Tax Reform Will Grow Our Economy and Create Jobs.".
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is using virtual reality technology to improve the reactor deactivation and decommissioning (D&D) process. This innovative approach is being used to close the dormant C Reactor at EM’s Savannah River Site (SRS).
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statement after the Senate voted to confirm Robert Lighthizer as United States Trade Representative (USTR)...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, woman today admitted her role in a scheme to defraud a bank and bank regulators, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Workers have finished removing more than 11,000 items from Savannah River Site excess inventory by disposing or giving them to other DOE sites, universities and the local community reuse organization.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former inmate at Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, Mass., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to threatening to kill the President of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Fifteen men (12 from St. Louis and 3 from Arizona) were indicted in St. Louis on charges of conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin and cocaine base (“crack" cocaine).
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Wilmington, Del. - David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Uriel Erendira Nava, age 42, pled guilty today to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Baraboo, Wisconsin, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A former Shelby County resident will spend six months in federal prison for illegally accessing email and cloud storage accounts of more than 50 women to obtain personal data, including explicit photographs, announced acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Gardner, Mass., man was charged today in federal court in Boston for his role in a conspiracy to traffic counterfeit steroids.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) and House Oversight and Government Reform Information Technology Subcommittee Chairman Will Hurd (R-TX) announced yesterday that the Subcommittees will hold a joint subcommittee hearing entitled, “Protecting...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Jack A. Hoogasian, 44, of Johnston, RI, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence on Tuesday to possession with the intent to distribute heroin and possession of a pill press. A pill press is used to produce counterfeit narcotics, in this case, oxycodone.
