News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Sterling man with obstructing a terrorism investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: James Arbaugh Admitted to Traveling to Haiti, Sexually Abusing Multiple Children.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has canceled its withdrawal application and the Department of the Interior’s proposed withdrawal of 1.3 million acres of national conservation lands from location and entry under the mining laws in the California Desert Conservation Area. In making its...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office and the Swanton Sector of the United States Border Patrol announce that Irvin Munoz-Diaz, 23, a citizen of Mexico who now lives in Canada, and Candido Emanuel Noriega-Quezada, 20, a Guatemalan citizen who lives in Rhode Island, appeared yesterday in United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Wilson, North Carolina, tax return preparer pleaded guilty today to filing a false claim for refund with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Wintersville, Ohio man was indicted today by a federal grand jury on a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: John H, Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DIANE DALMY, 63, of Denver, Colorado, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of conspiracy stemming from her role in a securities fraud scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders will hold a press conference open to credentialed members of the media this afternoon to provide an update on their ongoing investigation into alleged pill dumping in the state of West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Quincy man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for bank robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Honolulu - Pearl Harbor Survivor Alfred Rodrigues is turning 98 years old, and the public is invited to help celebrate. Join us at the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center’s Aloha Court at 10:30 AM on Wednesday, February 7, to wish him a happy birthday! Celebrations will include jazz music, a Hawaiian blessing, and a speech by monument historian Daniel Martinez. The media is welcome to cover the event.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Energy hearing on “DOE Modernization: Advancing the Economic and National Security Benefits of America’s Nuclear Infrastructure:"
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following news reports that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt will ask the National Marine Fisheries Service to reconsider a decision it made earlier this year that the controversial pesticide chlorpyrifos jeopardizes endangered salmon...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held its second hearing as part of the committee’s ‘DOE Modernization’ series. #SubEnergy examined issues associated with the current domestic nuclear supply chain, international market opportunities, and options for future development and deployment of advanced nuclear technologies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Two illegal aliens residing in Pharr have entered guilty pleas to conspiring to interfere with commerce by threats or violence and to carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government, by a vote of 245-182. A number of important health care provisions were also included in the bill, including the permanent repeal of the Medicare therapy caps and funding for Community Health Centers.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today held a press conference to provide an update on their ongoing investigation into alleged pill dumping in the state of West Virginia. The leaders spoke to continued stonewalling by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), despite numerous requests for basic information.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government, by a vote of 245-182. A number of important health care provisions were also included in the bill, including the permanent repeal of the Medicare therapy caps and funding for Community Health Centers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: New York Man Sentenced to 18 Years for ISIS-Directed Terrorist Attacks in New York City.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) announced changes to the Democratic Leadership and membership of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Allegedly submitted fraudulent medical claims for reimbursement.
