News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Robert Oathout, 37, of Hartford, Conn., was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I., on Monday to 63 months in prison for defrauding elderly family members and family friends of more than $447,000. According to court documents, Oathout told the victims that he needed to...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Bigfork, Montana, woman was charged in federal district court with 35 counts of Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Philadelphia - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging two Philadelphia-area political consultants with conspiracy, causing unlawful campaign contributions, causing the filing of false reports to the Federal Election Commission, causing false statements to the Federal Election Commission and making false statements to the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Joshua Harrison, 35, of Augusta, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 10 years in prison to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release for possessing child pornography. Harrison pleaded guilty on Dec. 15, 2016.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - This Saturday, Oct. 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and its local law enforcement, community and tribal partners will give the public its 14th opportunity in seven years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Two Men Indicted for Conspiring to Cause False Statements to the Federal Election Commission.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - A broad group of stakeholders vocally support the Wildfire Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2017. Local leaders, conservationists, outdoor enthusiasts and others have outlined their support for the draft legislation. The legislative language was released this week by U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), with Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), John Thune (R-SD), and Steve Daines (R-MT).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The U.S. Attorney’s Office today charged a fourth sales representative for a Haleyville, Ala.,-based compounding pharmacy for participating in a conspiracy to generate prescriptions and defraud health care insurers and prescription drug administrators out of tens of millions of dollars in 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of its commitment to improve the visitor experience and ensure America’s national parks are protected in perpetuity, the National Park Service (NPS) is considering increases to fees at highly visited national parks during peak visitor seasons. Proposed peak season entrance fees and...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the following statement in response to the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) report highlighting the annual multi-billion dollar costs of climate change.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: A one-count information was filed charging a federal prison employee with providing a prohibited object to an inmate, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Fall River man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to his role in a heroin and fentanyl trafficking organization that operated in Taunton and Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Nurse Practitioner and Physician Indicted in Compounding Pharmacy Fraud Schemes.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: We’re pleased with where general aviation safety is headed. The numbers aren’t final, but it looks like 2017 will end up being our safest year yet. Working together with industry to meaningfully address safety is making a difference and we’re going to continue our collaboration to make GA even safer.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to producing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Senior United States District Judge Callie V.S. Granade sentenced Isaiah Anderson-Harrison on Oct. 16, 2017 to serve a term of imprisonment of 46 months followed by 3 years of supervised release for committing Access Device Fraud on March 27, 2014, in violation of 18 USC § 1029(a)(3). The defendant entered a guilty plea before the Court on July 17, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM and Idaho Cleanup Project contractor Fluor Idaho recently completed the 50th shipment of Cold War weapons waste from the Idaho Site to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) since the New Mexico repository reopened earlier this year. “The Idaho Site is very pleased that we’re able to continue to ship waste to WIPP for disposal," said Jack Zimmerman, deputy manager for DOE’s Idaho Operations Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) criticized today’s National Park Service announcement regarding increased entrance fees at seventeen highly-visited parks. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke claims the fee hikes are necessary to address the deferred...
