News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that David Barraclough, 32, of Tonawanda, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 240 months in prison and lifetime supervised release by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By USDA Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that David Barraclough, 32, of Tonawanda, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 240 months in prison and lifetime supervised release by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By Homeland Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - After the Department of Energy disagreed with findings of the government’s top watchdog about their ability to identify and prevent contracting fraud, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today wrote Energy Secretary Rick Perry with concerns about the department’s commitment to fraud prevention.
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 458,000 visitors to Cape Lookout National Seashore in 2016 spent $20,931,700 in communities near the park. That spending supported 322 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $22,945,100.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with defrauding the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of tobacco excise taxes between 2012 and 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Andrew Beezub, 33, of Keene, pleaded guilty in the United States District Court to one count of possessing child pornography. A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Aug. 14, 2017. Beezub was placed in the custody of the U.S. Marshal pending sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Anthony Corsa, age 31, of York, Pennsylvania, was indicted on April 19, 2017, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges. The indictment was unsealed on April 28, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Anthony Johnson, age 49, a resident of York, Pennsylvania, was indicted on April 19, 2017, by a federal grand jury on robbery and federal firearms charges. The indictment was unsealed today.
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif - In the coming weeks, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will start burning small brush piles to get rid of fire fuel to improve public safety, and as a result, residents of the Cameron Park area near the BLM Pine Hill Preserve may start seeing and smelling smoke. The prescribed burning will start in May and will continue as weather conditions allow.
By Homeland Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on the FY2017 Omnibus Appropriations Act.
By EPA Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued a statement about the spending deal reached by bipartisan and bicameral leaders. The deal includes a number of committee priorities, namely additional resources for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as provided by the landmark 21st Century Cures Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Brighton man was sentenced Thursday, April 27, 2017, in federal court in Boston for possession and receipt of child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2017
Release: Successful Competition Highlights Importance of Investing in Next Generation of Leaders in Science
By USDA Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today joined U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue in announcing much-needed regulatory flexibility for the National School Lunch Program.
By DOL Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement as Congress nears passage of a bipartisan appropriations bill free of poison pill riders on women's health.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man involved with others in distributing heroin in 2016 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Philip Reed Starkey, 48, entered his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Crimes Took Place in District of Columbia and Maryland.
By Commerce Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) responded to President Donald Trump’s claims on CBS Face the Nation yesterday that the Trumpcare bill guarantees protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions...
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued a statement about the spending deal reached by bipartisan and bicameral leaders. The deal includes a number of committee priorities, namely additional resources for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as provided by the landmark 21st Century Cures Act.
