News from May 2017
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today highlighted four environmental policy areas the Trump administration’s proposed budget would hit especially hard, calling on Republicans to reject it out of hand or explain why they continue to support an administration that has lost all credibility.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Eugene Chung has been sentenced to ten years, six months in prison on federal extortion charges. Chung was the leader of a Gwinnett County, Georgia, gang that specialized in the violent collection of debts from business owners in the Korean-American community. Chung and his gang also shook...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man today admitted participating in the December 2015 robbery of a North Jersey bar and the violent carjacking and kidnapping that took place shortly afterwards, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Subject Facing Federal Drug Charges After Search of Vehicle Yields 15.6 Kilograms of Methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: (PINEDALE, Wyo.) - The Pinedale Anticline Project Office has $250,000 in its mitigation fund and is asking the local community and industry for potential projects to reduce emissions in the Upper Green River Basin.
By Homeland Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Pomona woman was arrested Tuesday morning on federal charges that accuse her of conspiring to procure and illegally export sensitive space communications technology to her native China.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Tony Pedretti, 43, of Whiting, Indiana, admitted to his role in a kickback scheme that ran for three years while he supervised the HVAC shop and the John Cochran Veterans Administration Medical Center in St. Louis from 2012 to 2015. Pedretti appeared before Judge Audrey G. Fleissig in St. Louis. Judge Fleissig accepted his plea and set his sentencing for September 7, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: The “MOB Gang" allegedly responsible for a number of area pharmacy robberies taking prescription narcotics for street sale.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Federal Lands held a legislative hearing on two bills to promote economic development, improve conservation and addresstargeted federal land management challenges.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Brady, for holding today’s hearing on increasing U.S. competitiveness and preventing American jobs from moving overseas. This is an important topic and I look forward to a productive conversation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Defendant Conspired to Cash More than $500,000 in Tax Refund and Social Security Checks.
By State Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON- U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, made the following statement after introducing bipartisan resolution, H. Res. 351, condemning the violence and persecution in Chechnya. Joining Ros-Lehtinen in introducing this resolution were U.S. Reps. Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Darrell Issa (R-CA), David Cicilline (D-RI), Ed Royce (R-CA), and Chris Smith (R-NJ).
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Eugene Chung has been sentenced to ten years, six months in prison on federal extortion charges. Chung was the leader of a Gwinnett County, Georgia, gang that specialized in the violent collection of debts from business owners in the Korean-American community. Chung and his gang also shook...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Michael Rose, 29, of New Carlisle, Ohio, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 12 months in prison for attempted extortion under the color of law.
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today made the following statement on the Trump Administration’s FY 2018 Budget Request which would cut $231 billion from mandatory farm bill spending over ten years.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Roosevelt, AZ - In order to mitigate the number of heat-related incidents and promote visitor safety, Tonto National Monument will reduce summer hours to the Lower Cliff Dwelling from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. starting on June 1, 2017 and ending on Aug. 31, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Gila District is re-opening portions of the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area (NCA) that were closed due to the recent Sawmill fire.
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: President Trump’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget seeks $479.8 million for the Office of Fossil Energy (FE). The request includes.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Please join us at the Buffalo Point Amphitheater this summer for three special concerts as we celebrate Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day. These family-friendly shows are free and open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Dr. Michael Esposito has agreed to pay $100,000 for billing Medicare despite his exclusion from all federal health care programs, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian. Dr. Esposito is an endocrinologist who treated patients in the Capital Region until earlier this year, when the New York State Board of Professional Medical Conduct ordered him to stop practicing medicine because he had engaged in professional misconduct.
