News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Former Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold, 41, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., was sentenced today to 50 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, after pleading guilty earlier this year to fraud and corruption charges, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jack Smith of the Middle District of Tennessee and Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following statement after the House passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA)...
By DOL Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement after the House passed the American Health Care Act...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: James Johnman Jr., 36, of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania and a registered Megan’s Law offender, was charged today by Indictment with attempted enticement of a minor, distribution of child pornography, and possession of child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By USDA Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Contact: USDA Press Office, press@oc.usda.gov. Washington, D.C., May 4, 2017 - Secretary Sonny Perdue announced today that the first shipment of fresh U.S. beef has arrived in Brazil following a 13-year hiatus. The entrance of American beef into the Brazilian market ushers in promising long-term economic...
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: The agreement between NOAA’s Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, off the coast of Massachusetts, and the Yarari Marine Mammal and Shark Sanctuary of the Caribbean Netherlands offsite link in the Dutch Lesser Antilles, provides for joint whale research, monitoring, education and conservation.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service is putting its water shortage action plan into effect, following the state’s call to cease withdrawing water from Annie Creek. Crater Lake National Park staff are asking all visitors and employees to use water wisely during the water supply shortage.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Harrison AR: Buffalo National River Superintendent Kevin Cheri invites the public to attend an open house meeting for the park’s Boxley Valley Comprehensive Area Plan. The National Park Service will be hosting two open houses for the public. The purpose of these open houses is to collect information...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 29-year-old Corpus Christi man has been ordered to prison following his two convictions of sexual exploitation of a child, otherwise known as production of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Mark Hamauei pleaded guilty Jan. 6, 2017, admitting he took sexually explicit videos of both a 13 and 14-year-old victim.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: OAKLAND - A federal grand jury in Oakland indicted Eugene Latrell McNeely on April 20, 2017, for transporting a minor from Oregon to California with the intent that the minor engage in prostitution, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation, Special Agent in Charge, John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Deborah Branch Pleads Guilty to Two Federal Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Alan Fernando Gomez-Paniagua, 25, a citizen of Mexico residing in Delano, charging him with conspiring to cultivate, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, cultivating marijuana, damaging public land and natural resources, and being an alien in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: In Alpine today, 59-year-old Karl Henry Peterson admitted to setting the U.S. Post Office in Alpine ablaze last year announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez, U.S. Postal Investigation Service, Houston Division.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: MAY 4, 2017 - The U.S. Census Bureau released the 2016 Current Population Survey Fertility table package, which includes fertility data for women ages 15 to 50. The tables show measures of childlessness and children ever born to women by demographic characteristics such as age and marital status. In addition, historical tables and figures show trends in fertility, many of which include data going back to 1976.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Kansas man was charged in U.S. District Court here Wednesday with producing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after the House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act, which will now be sent to the Senate...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Former Tennessee Sheriff Sentenced on Federal Corruption Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A Smith County couple has been sentenced for health care fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Clarksburg, West Virginia man was arraigned today in federal court, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By USDA Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a hearing on May 11, titled, “Pesticide Registration under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act: Providing Stakeholders with Certainty through the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act."
