News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI offers $1, 000 for information on Navajo Nation Suspicious Death.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed H.R. 3990, the “National Monument Creation and Protection Act" or the “CAP Act." Introduced by Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), the bill protects archeological resources while ensuring public transparency and accountability in the executive’s use of the Antiquities Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the guilty plea of DONALD THOMAS PERRIN, 57, a registered sex offender, to child pornography charges. PERRIN, who was charged in a criminal complaint on November 9, 2016, pleaded guilty yesterday morning before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright, moments before his jury trial was set to begin in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A former congressional staffer pleaded guilty today for his role in orchestrating a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from charitable foundations and the individuals who ran those foundations to pay for personal expenses and to illegally finance a former congressman’s campaigns for public office, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez and Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Senators Tom Carper (D-DE) and John Barrasso (R-WY), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, respectively, along with Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), Rep. Rob Wittman (VA-01), Rep. Frank LoBiondo (NJ-2), Rep. Sam Graves (MO-6), Rep. Raul Grijalva ...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at the Energy and Commerce Committee Opioid Member Day, which serves as an opportunity for all members of Congress to testify before the Committee on the national opioid epidemic...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: Judge ordered Seng Xiong to pay more than $1.2 million in restitution to victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Zachariah Nez, 22, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to six years in prison for his conviction on a voluntary manslaughter charge. Nez will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: NEWCASTLE, Wyo. - Partial fire restrictions were lifted for BLM-administered public land in Crook, Weston and Niobrara Counties, as of Oct. 10, 2017. This decision was reached in coordination with our county partners. Partnerships and inclusion are vital to managing sustainable, working public lands managed by the BLM.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: STRONG CITY, Kansas: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is planning to conduct a number of prescribed burns starting soon, weather depending.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that the following Cherokee County residents, all previously convicted on federal methamphetamine conspiracy charges, were sentenced in federal court to the following terms of imprisonment.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: Join park rangers in celebrating fall and plan for winter at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore). The colors are starting to change, the crispness is in the air, and the heat of summer has gone; a perfect time to celebrate the season with a few special events in October at the National Lakeshore.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: RUSSELLVILLE-Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Anthony Lemons, Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), William McCrary, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, New Orleans Field Division...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously passed S. 920, the National Clinical Care Commission Act, by voice vote. Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) authored the House companion bill, H.R. 309, which passed the House by voice vote earlier this year.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at the Energy and Commerce Committee Opioid Member Day, which serves as an opportunity for all members of Congress to testify before the Committee on the national opioid epidemic...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following statement after U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Chris Giancarlo’s announcement to extend the $8 billion de minimis threshold phase-in termination date by one year to December 2019. This extension gives the CFTC time to complete the rule in 2018.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today held a “Member Day, " allowing members both on and off the Energy and Commerce Committee to share local and personal stories and highlight potential legislative solutions to combat the opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of SENG XIONG, 49, to 87 months in prison for operating an affinity scheme targeting members of the Hmong community. XIONG, who was found guilty on Jan. 26, 2017, following an eight-day jury trial, was sentenced today before Judge Susan Richard Nelson in U.S. District Court in Saint Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 25-year-old Mission man has received a 10-year prison sentence for transporting cocaine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Mario Alberto Garrido pleaded guilty to possessing with the intent to distribute 23 kilograms of cocaine on Nov. 8, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HAROLD LEVINE, a Manhattan tax attorney, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff to 24 months in prison for tax evasion and obstruction of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS"), stemming...
