News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 42-year-old Mexican national has been sentenced to prison for illegally re-entering the country after removal or deportation, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. A federal jury deliberated for only approximately 30 minutes before finding Candelario Lucio-Garza guilty on Jan. 23, 2018.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: -As Prepared for Delivery-. “Mr. Chairman, this is a flawed bill that is the result of a bad and nontransparent process. I oppose it and urge my colleagues on the Committee to oppose it as well. More than nine months ago, we began discussions on a bipartisan farm bill. I saw this process as a way to...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the 21st Century Cures Act, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today the second round of grants to help states and territories combat the opioid epidemic. The $485 million in grants will be administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and be used toward the prevention of opioid abuse and treatment to those affected. The first round of grants was announced in April 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina--------United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Charles Rayford Hunt, Jr., age 40, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was charged in a multi-count indictment with misprision of felony in connection with concealing the distribution of cocaine and heroin the use of...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “The Appropriate Role of States and the Federal Government in Protecting Groundwater." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today advanced five bills to the full committee that ensure the Department of Energy has the tools it needs to execute its core energy security missions and to promote domestic energy infrastructure and capitalize on the nation’s energy abundance.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Today, the top Democrats of four House Committees sent a letter to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Brock Long requesting an extension of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) mission to restore power in Puerto Rico, which is currently scheduled to expire on May 18, 2018. The letter comes as news reports indicate an island-wide power outage hit Puerto Rico earlier today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jerry Lynn Gragg Jr., 41, a former police officer with the Savanna Police Department in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, was sentenced today in federal court in Muskogee, Oklahoma, to 100 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release. Gragg previously pleaded guilty to...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee delivered a speech on the Senate floor today, urging her colleagues to votes against the nomination of Carlos Muniz, Secretary DeVos’ nominee for the General Counsel of the Department of Education.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the second cohort of innovators to join Chain Reaction Innovations, the Midwest region's first entrepreneurial research and development (R&D) program based at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), the nation's first national laboratory. Six innovators were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants and will begin work at ANL in May 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Joseph Manuel Hunter, a U.S. citizen and former member of the U.S. Army, and two co-defendants, Adam Samia and Carl David Stillwell, both U.S. citizens, were convicted by a federal jury...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell sentenced Harold Halman, II, 58, and Alexander Schaap, 62, to 36 and 30 months in prison, respectively. Both must serve 3 years of supervised release following their prison sentences. The Court also ordered them to pay $4.5 million in restitution. Craighton Boates, 44, New River, Ariz., was also sentenced to 5 years’ probation.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Today, the top Democrats of four House Committees sent a letter to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Brock Long requesting an extension of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) mission to restore power in Puerto Rico, which is currently scheduled to expire on May 18, 2018. The letter comes as news reports indicate an island-wide power outage hit Puerto Rico earlier today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: HONOLULU - Garrett Okubo, of Honolulu, Hawaii, pled guilty today in federal court to four counts of health care fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1347.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the 21st Century Cures Act, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today the second round of grants to help states and territories combat the opioid epidemic. The $485 million in grants will be administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and be used toward the prevention of opioid abuse and treatment to those affected. The first round of grants was announced in April 2017.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Tonight, Subcommittee on Health Chairman, Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), will host a special order on the House Floor in which he and other bipartisan members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will discuss the committee’s ongoing efforts to combat the opioid crisis.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Pinnacles National Park Seeks Public Review of Proposed Action for Replacement of the East Side Entrance Station.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Brian Napier, age 34, of Waterford, New York, pled guilty today to accessing a child pornography web site available only through an anonymous Internet network.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Nicholas T. Richard, 39, of Lewiston, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 262 months in prison and supervised release for life for receiving child pornography images. He was also ordered to pay $7,500 in restitution to the victims depicted in the images. Richard pleaded guilty on Nov. 20, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Roosevelt, AZ- Effective on April 18th, all districts of the Tonto National Forest and the Tonto National Monument are going into Stage 1 First Restrictions.
