News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: EL PASO - This afternoon, U.S. Magistrate Judge Anne T. Berton ordered 36 year-old Martin Arody Sanchez Aguirre held without bond pending trial on federal drug trafficking charges. Sanchez Aguirre is one of five individuals indicted earlier this month for trafficking in cocaine and heroin throughout...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Alaska couple has been charged for allegedly defrauding an Anchorage medical practice of at least $550,000.
By State Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the committee will convene a hearing on Thursday, October 5 to discuss the U.S. response to Burma’s escalating violence against the Rohingya. The hearing, entitled “The Rohingya Crisis: U.S. Response to the Tragedy in Burma, " will begin at 9 a.m.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Another rockfall occurred on the Southeast face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park this afternoon at 3:21 p.m. The rockfall is significantly larger than yesterday's rockfalls. Geologists are assessing the size and weight of the rockfall and these estimates are forthcoming.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign is designed to educate GA pilots about the best practices to calculate and predict aircraft performance and to operate within established aircraft limitations.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A panel discussion at the recent National Cleanup Workshop highlighted the importance of new technologies and other fresh approaches to tackle high-level tank waste challenges.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. -- With the return of cooler weather and reduced wildfire dangers, the Bureau of Land Management will rescind fire restrictions on public lands managed by the Eagle Lake and Applegate field offices in Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Sierra, eastern Shasta and eastern Siskiyou counties in California and in Washoe County, Nevada. Restrictions will be lifted Friday, Sept. 29.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: SEPT. 28, 2017 - This survey provides national summary data on the revenues, expenditures and composition of assets of the largest defined benefit public employee pension systems for state and local governments. The report produces three tables: Tables 1 and 3 include data on cash and security holdings, and Table 2 provides data on earnings on investments, contributions and payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Northfield, New Jersey, man today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers out of millions of dollars by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick and New Jersey Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A 54-year-old Muscle Shoals, Alabama resident was arrested on Sept. 27, on a federal criminal complaint charging him with producing child pornography, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town of the Northern District of Alabama.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 3823, the Disaster Tax Relief and Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2017, which included some short-term extensions of health policies that would expire on Sept. 30, 2017. These provisions can be found in sections 301, 302, and 303.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - ZB, N.A, formerly known as Zions First National Bank, N.A. (Zions), of Salt Lake City, Utah, settled allegations by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania that Zions and its affiliated payment processor facilitated consumer fraud by providing payment...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former investment advisor was arrested today and charged with deceiving and manipulating his former clients concerning the management of their retirement savings as well as lying to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Today a federal magistrate judge unsealed a superseding indictment charging Brexton Redell Lloyd, 54, of Eagle Springs, with one count of conspiracy and thirteen counts of violating the animal fighting prohibitions of the federal Animal Welfare Act, announced Acting United States Attorney...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A six year U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Philadelphia investigation led to the largest civil settlement agreement ever levied by ICE.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management will offer a special fall colors bike ride and bike shuttle Saturday, Oct. 21, on the Bizz Johnson National Recreation Trail near Susanville, as a great way to get some exercise and enjoy spectacular fall colors in the forest and the Susan River Canyon.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Anna B. Holt Pleaded Guilty to Embezzlement.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: The unified framework to fix our broken tax code is a major step forward for tax reform.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Judiciary Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) held a joint Democratic Forum to review recent studies highlighting the advances in sports research on traumatic brain injuries due to contact sports and pathways to move forward.
