News from May 2017
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Under Obamacare, the American people were promised a health law that would deliver better, more affordable care and coverage to all Americans.
By State Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement after a committee briefing on the administration’s proposed FY2018 International Affairs Budget...
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry released the following statement on President Donald J. Trump’s Fiscal Year 2018 budget request for the Department of Energy (DOE)...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Carl J. Kotowski, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging six defendants with operating a national...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Defendants Prosecuted as Part of The Guardians Project.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - May 23, 2017 - Joe Lewis Williams, Jr., of Nashville, Tenn., was indicted on May 18, 2017, and charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
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 Homeland Newswire | May 23, 2017
Release: NEW YORK - More individuals than ever are traveling with disabilities and medical conditions, and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is helping them get through security screening at airports during the busy summer travel season.
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, “U.S. Public Health Response to the Zika Virus: Continuing Challenges:"
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Parkville, Mo., man who was under investigation for hacking into his former employer’s computer system, pleaded guilty in federal court today to both the intrusion charge and to using a computer to view online child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Two conspirators were sentenced by Senior United States District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley in South Florida for importing counterfeit Microsoft software into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Gladys Maria Pena Dominguez, 35, was sentenced on Monday to serve 54 months in federal prison for her role in a scheme to use stolen personal identifying information to file false federal income tax returns and steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from the U.S. Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Defendant previously deported five times. Boston - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to illegally reentering the United States after being deported. Jose Manuel Arroyo, 39, a Dominican national residing in Boston, pleaded guilty to one count of illegal reentry after...
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Celebrate American Hiking Society’s National Trails Day® in Shenandoah National Park on Saturday, June 3, 2017. In partnership with Shenandoah National Park, the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) invites new hikers and experienced backpackers to learn new trail skills at PATC Trail...
By US DOT Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has scheduled a markup for 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 24, 2017, in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Springfield, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2017
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has announced that water levels at most Reclamation-managed reservoirs in eastern Montana are at or above average for this time of year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2017
News Release: MONROE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a Bogalusa man was sentenced to 150 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 59-year-old man from the Conroe area has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of sexual exploitation of a child as well as distribution and possession of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Robert Neal Hatchell pleaded guilty Dec. 19, 2016, admitting he took sexually-explicit photographs and a video of minor relatives and possessed more than 10,000 pornographic images.
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee today released a fact sheet on Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, the first in a weekly series on the national monuments threatened by the Trump administration’s ongoing “review" stemming from an April 26 Executive Order. Democrats...
