News from May 2017
By EPA Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today announced the following staff announcements for the Communications and Technology Subcommittee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater sentenced three defendants, including a doctor, a pharmacist, and the owner of McAllen Medical Clinic, today for their involvement in a “pill mill" operation, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By State Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOE Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: The Democratic staff of the Energy and Commerce Committee today released state-by-state analysis of the impacts President Trump’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget would have on all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced that Sean Michael Fitzgerald, 35, of Boca Raton, Florida, was convicted today by a federal jury of operating a common carrier under the influence of alcohol. Chief United States District Judge Robert J. Jonker presided over the four-day trial. Fitzgerald faces a statutory maximum term of imprisonment of fifteen years at the time of sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: On May 25, 2017, Acting United States Attorney Sean R. Berry of the Northern District of Iowa and United States Attorney Kevin VanderSchel of the Southern District of Iowa presented awards to numerous Iowa law enforcement officers at the 31st Annual Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee’s Executive Training Conference. The awards are presented to law enforcement officers who have gone above and beyond the call of duty in their efforts to make our community safer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Faith, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on May 15, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: Seven members of an Atlanta-based robbery crew have been sentenced for their roles in the February 2015 armed robbery of the Wells Fargo bank at the intersection of Virginia and North Highland Avenues in Atlanta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A St. Marys man was sentenced Thursday to five years in federal prison for tax evasion, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. He was ordered to pay more than $8.4 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: California man allegedly defrauded former Indianapolis Colts player out of over $4.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen announced that Abington Memorial Hospital, which does business as Abington Hospital - Jefferson Health (AMH), has agreed to pay the United States $491,672, to resolve allegations that an AMH employee forged physician signatures on forms submitted to the Medicare program for home care services. These forms required physicians’ genuine signatures for such claims to be reimbursed by Medicare.
By State Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Congressmen Brian Mast (R-FL), Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NY), Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) this week introduced the Palestinian International Terrorism Support Prevention Act (H.R.2712). The bipartisan...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that Jose Manuel Garcia Vargas, 41, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha on May 26, 2017, for receiving child pornography. The Honorable Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Garcia Vargas to five years of imprisonment. There is no parole in the...
By Commerce Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today announced the following staff announcements for the Communications and Technology Subcommittee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - May 26, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. -Carlos E. López-Soto, a.k.a. “Chemito" was sentenced to 744 months (62 years), in prison and 5 years of supervised release for his participation in a gang that committed fourteen (14) armed robberies in Puerto Rico announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: FBI Observes National Missing Children’s Day.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming State Office has posted its proposed list of parcels for the quarterly competitive oil and gas lease sale scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. This sale is being held online at energynet.com.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged William P. Elschlager, 48, of Marietta, Ohio, with cyberstalking and deprivation of rights under color of law in an indictment returned here today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.--When a ballerina pirouettes, twirling a full revolution, she looks just as she did when she started. But for electrons and other subatomic particles, which follow the rules of quantum theory, that’s not necessarily so. When an electron moves around a closed path, ending up where it began, its physical state may or may not be the same as when it left.
