News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Pittsburgh-area residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of unlawfully distributing controlled substances and health care fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement on press reports that the Republican tax proposal may cap the amount of pretax money working families can contribute to their retirement plans...
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming committee event...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: A former MS-13 gang member was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for assaulting and impeding a transportation officer for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: With new stories about cyber threats frequently making headlines, cybersecurity has never been as present in the minds of Americans as it is today. Fortunately, the U.S. energy sector has been working to prepare for and respond to the cybersecurity threat for years to ensure a secure and reliable energy system across the Nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Christian Delgado, 27, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $1,000,000 or both.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is asking for answers from the Department of Defense after a report published today showed that a significant number of trainees from the Afghan military went missing after coming to the United States on various training programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee continued its ongoing investigation into government-wide abuse of the Federal and Presidential Records Acts (FRA) (PRA), as Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) sent letters to 16 federal agencies and the White House following-up on the Committee’s Sept. 25, 2017 request for documents.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: PORT ANGELES, WA: Olympic National Park is reopening the Hoh, Quillayute, and Dickey Rivers to recreational fishing within park boundaries on Saturday, October 21. Recent rain events over the last 48 hours drastically increased river flows, allowing for unimpeded upstream migration of salmon and the re-opening of sport fishing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Tina Brown, 42, of Bronx, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud affecting a financial institution, before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Georgia man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with a scheme to defraud Framingham-based Staples Inc. of more than $1.4 million.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
Release: RENO, Nevada - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has implemented new and stronger carry-on baggage security screening procedures at Reno-Tahoe International Airport (RNO).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: Second Conviction for Distributing Misbranded Drugs.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: UPDATE Nov 16, 2017: In anticipation of falling temperatures, certain facilities in Bullfrog, Halls Crossing and Hite have been winterized. These amenities will start to be reopened on March 15, 2018. The following facilities are closed for the winter season:. * Bullfrog, Halls Crossing and Hite fish...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: U.S. Postal Inspection Service to Hold Media Event.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Tracey D. Montaño, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announced today that Allan Siebert, 75, of Little Rock, agreed to waive indictment and pleaded guilty to a two-count federal information charging him with tax evasion and operating an illegal gambling business.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: Maria McTague Alvarado, Felix Chujoy Admit to Harboring, Employing Undocumented Immigrants.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former supervisory deputy jailer at the Kentucky River Regional Jail has been sentenced to 108 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release related to his role in an unprovoked violent assault of a detainee who was being held at the jail, and for subsequently covering up the beating.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the follow activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Pittsburgh-area residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of unlawfully distributing controlled substances and health care fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
