News from May 2017
By DOE Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Scott Gottlieb as the next U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: DETROIT - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and more than 4,200 of its law enforcement and community partners collected more unused prescription drugs than at any of the 12 previous National Prescription Drug Take Back Day events.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JASON PRAWL, also known as “Boots," 29, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Cape Cod man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Boston today in connection with trafficking heroin and money laundering.
By DOE Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Bipartisan committee leaders sent a series of letters on Monday to pill distributors and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) following recent reports of extremely high amounts of opioids being distributed in the state of West Virginia. The letters were sent by full committee Chairman Greg Walden...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A citizen of the Dominican Republic pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to passport fraud and identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Jeremy Walker (26), a former corrections officer cadet with the Elmore Correctional Facility in Elmore, Alabama pleaded guilty in federal court to a civil rights violation for assaulting a handcuffed man, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama A. Clark Morris, and Acting Assistant Attorney General Tom Wheeler of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Walker is a resident of Montgomery, Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Joseph Goldman, age 35, of Baltimore, Maryland today to one year and a day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possessing unregistered firearms and for making a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Santa Ana man was arrested today by special agents with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service after he was charged with unlawfully selling feathers from a bald eagle and other protected migratory birds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of wire fraud and engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714 and Patrick Hovakimian (619) 546-9718.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, announced that New Jersey residents turned in 15,929 pounds or 7.9 tons of expired, unused, and unwanted prescriptions during National Prescription Take Back Day on April 29. Nationally, 900,386 pound or 450 tons of prescription medications were collected. This was the 13th National Take Back Day sponsored by the DEA.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: DETROIT - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and more than 4,200 of its law enforcement and community partners collected more unused prescription drugs than at any of the 12 previous National Prescription Drug Take Back Day events.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), today issued the following statement after the administration nominated two of three appointees to fill the vacancies at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
By US DOT Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt seeking more information on the Agency's abrupt dismissal of 12 scientists from its Board of Scientific ...
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: (Calumet, MI) The Keweenaw NHP Advisory Commission and the National Park Service at Keweenaw National Historical Park announce that 24 Keweenaw Heritage Grants were awarded for projects throughout Upper Michigan’s Copper Country. The grants were distributed both inside and outside of the Quincy and Calumet...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolinians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) thirteenth National Prescription Drug Take Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 29, 2017, turned in 7,404 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This amount exceeded the last take back event by 2,436 pounds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Jill M. Evans, age 51, of Littleton, Colorado, was recently sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane to serve 84 months (7 years) in federal prison for wire fraud and money laundering, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, FBI and Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigations announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the guilty plea of CHRISTOPHER BARRY, 46, for stealing trade secrets from his former employer, Lutonix, Inc. BARRY, who was charged by felony information on April 5, 2017, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard H. Kyle in St. Paul, Minn.
