News from September 2017
By EPA Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has announced it will markup seven bipartisan bills on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, at 1 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A member of MS-13’s Enfermos Criminales Salvatrucha clique in Chelsea, Mass., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to RICO conspiracy involving the attempted murder of a rival gang member.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man who sold heroin in June 2016 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. George Holloway, 45, entered his guilty plea to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Laguna Hills man pleaded guilty today to charges of selling misbranded veterinary medications without a prescription, some of which were not approved for use in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A convicted sex offender from Long Beach was sentenced this morning to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to attempted sex trafficking of a child for responding to an online advertisement that offered sex with a 15-year-old girl in exchange for $200.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. John Katko, the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee’s Transportation and Protective Security Subcommittee, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, were joined by Reps. Trey Gowdy, Michael McCaul, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for attempting to solicit a minor, who was actually an undercover federal agent, to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Indictment Alleges Use of Straw Donors To Fund Election Campaign.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Skagway - Join us for free, 45-minute walking tours of Skagway’s historic district at 1:00 pm on September 14 and 15. The tours will be conducted entirely in Spanish. The topic is Women of Skagway.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Chief United States District Court Judge Kristi K. DuBose sentenced Ernest Lamar Rogers on September 8, 2017 to serve a term of imprisonment of 12 months followed by 3 years of supervised release for illegally...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the 2018 Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program. The program offers training and collaborative research opportunities to scientists, researchers, and policymakers from 40 eligible countries.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Joshua Tree National Park, Twentynine Palms, CA -.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today called on Equifax Inc., to respond to reports that the firm experienced a data breach exposing personally identifiable information such as Social Security numbers, birthdates, addresses and driver’s license numbers of approximately 143 million Americans. In addition, credit card information of more than 200,000 people was compromised.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Democratic leaders sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma today raising serious questions over the Administration’s plans to roll back funding for the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Navigators...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - James J. Mattison, age 46, of Fort Edward, New York, appeared today in federal court on charges that he sexually exploited a child.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: On Monday, July 12, 2017, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park Superintendent Bruce Noble signed a Sister Park Agreement with Tara National Park in Serbia. The agreement was signed in Belgrade, Serbia in the presence of US Ambassador Kyle Scott and Stana Božovi, the State Secretary in the Serbian...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: School Officials Failed to Evacuate Students with Disabilities During School-Wide Evacuation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Abel Cruz-Bautista, age 25, and a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to time served (48 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that DONALD J. McCARTHY, 67, of East Hartford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of tax evasion.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - On the 16th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill-the top Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee and a senior member of the Armed Services Committee-released the following statement...
