News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a St. Joseph, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his second federal bank robbery conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
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By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JEFFERY GATLIN, age 52, of Independence, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information charging him with embezzling Social Security disability benefits.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Next Wednesday, the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation will hold a hearing to examine the state of the U.S. Flag Maritime Industry. At the hearing, the Subcommittee will hear testimony from the U.S. Coast Guard, the Maritime Administration (MARAD), and representatives of the maritime industry.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Five members of a local drug trafficking organization have been ordered to federal prison following their varying convictions on drug and/or firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - An Atlanta, Georgia, man, Jaime Bowling, 28, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 135 months in federal prison for his role in the distribution of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-On Dec. 4, 2017, President Donald Trump issued Proclamation 9682 modifying the boundary of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of important objects of historic and scientific interest. This action is part of a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Enterprise, Alabama- Today, twenty-one suspected methamphetamine and heroin traffickers from the Enterprise and Dothan areas have been arrested during pre-dawn roundups, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. from the Middle District of Alabama. These arrests follow two federal grand...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statement as he announced the subcommittee chairmen and subcommittee assignments for Republican Members of the Committee for the remainder of the 115th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Eladio L. Vazquez, 38, of Indio, California, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, followed by 10 years of supervised release, after pleading guilty on Dec. 26, 2017, to distribution of child pornography. As part of his sentence, Vazquez will also be required to register as a sex offender. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), today announced a hearing for Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, at 9 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Safety of the U.S. Food Supply: Continuing Concerns Over the Food and Drug Administration’s Food-Recall Process."
By USDA Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 320,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today announced that it will markup three bills on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Robert Barteau was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and followed by lifetime supervised release for child pornography charges before United States District Judge Catherine D. Perry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The owner of a Newport News seafood business was charged today by criminal information with conspiring to commit Lacey Act violations for blending foreign crab meat with Atlantic blue crab meat, then labeling the blended crab meat as “Product of USA".
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Ashan M. Benedict, the New York Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF"), announced today that LAWRENCE BROWN was sentenced to 39 years in prison for committing ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
Release: The regulations require pork or pork products: be accompanied by a certificate issued by a Mexican government veterinary officer, and the pork or pork products must come from swine raised and slaughtered in regions APHIS considers CSF-free. APHIS previously recognized specific regions within Mexico as ...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a legislative hearing for Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, at 9:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Legislation Addressing LNG Exports and PURPA Modernization."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that four previously deported aliens were indicted separately on Jan. 10, 2018, by a federal grand jury for illegal re-entry into the United States by a previously deported alien.
