News from September 2017
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, EPW Committee Democrats, led by Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt requesting information on EPA's active reduction of its workforce to historic lows. The Senators cited concerns that adoption ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Giuseppe “Pino" DiMeo, 49, of Eagleville, Pennsylvania pled guilty today to two counts of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS"), and nine counts of filing false tax returns announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. DiMeo admitted that he conspired with...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen today announced an indictment charging Denis Kelliher, 47, of Toms River, NJ, with wire fraud. According to the indictment, between 2013 and 2016, Kelliher was the manager of Trenton Marine’s Toms River, NJ marina and acted as a broker for...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARYBETH HARVEY, 35, of Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 12 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine. Judge Meyer also ordered HARVEY to forfeit $4,800.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Good morning and welcome. Today we will examine the Lifeline program, one of four programs funded by the Universal Service Fund. Congress established the Universal Service Fund in 1996 under the premise that “[c]onsumers in all regions of the Nation, including low-income consumers and those in rural, insular, and high cost areas, should have access to telecommunications and information services.".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Zachary Schmelzer, 20, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to one month of imprisonment, a $5,000 fine, and four months of home detention following his incarceration, for embezzling from a bank. Schmelzer pleaded guilty to two counts of embezzlement by bank employee on June 26, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Albuquerque Bank Robber Flees on Sport Bicycle.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kirbyville, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining several public health workforce programs.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Members of the public interested in experiencing the 67-mile Backbone Trail across the Santa Monica Mountains will soon be able to have a chance to apply for the National Park Service's 15th annual group-led hike of the trail. The lottery for the hike, which takes place over eight Saturdays in the winter and spring of 2018, will be open from September 20 to 30, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: It’d be great if what I’m hearing about the goals for individual tax reform actually lined up with the details of the plans that are reportedly in the works, but that just isn’t the case. Not even close.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management National Historic Trails Interpretive Center will host Butch and Christina Lynn Martin Tuesday, Sept. 19 at 10 a.m. during the free musical performance, “Time Travels Through the American West."
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining several public health workforce programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Callista Suzena Chiwocha, of Okemos, Michigan was sentenced in U.S. District Court to ten years in prison for conspiring to defraud the government by filing false tax returns, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge. The ten-year prison sentence imposed by Chief U.S. District...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 14, 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 regarding his meetings with four Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) nominees - Dr. Michael Dourson, EPA Nominee for Assistant Administrator of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: A man who threatened to kill a Cedar Rapids woman was sentenced Sept. 13, 2017, to ten years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Jonathan Bowers, 29, of Winthrop, Maine pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to reports that the Trump Administration will cut funding for some Affordable Care Act (ACA) Navigators by as much as 60% percent...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (MI-13) today submitted the following statement to the record in opposition to H.R. 3697, the so-called “Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act"
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: “Today’s House passage of inadequate and partisan Appropriations bills gets us no closer to enacting full-year funding that will support middle-class families, invest in critical priorities, and keep the American people secure at home and abroad.
