News from January 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (MA-01), Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (VA-03), and Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor issued a proposed rule to roll back health coverage protections by expanding association health plans...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Due to continued hazardous conditions as a result of the recent winter storm, Wright Brothers National Memorial will remain closed on Friday, January 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Joseph Sterling Goin, 24, of Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Lodge, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Judge Lodge also ordered Goin to serve three years of supervised release upon his release from federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: With Possession With Intent To Deliver More Than One Kilogram Of Heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -The Bureau of Land Management announces a Decision Record to improve wildlife habitat in the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area through vegetation treatments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: This evening, the New York Times reports that President Donald Trump ordered White House Counsel Don McGahn to stop Attorney General Jeff Sessions from recusing himself from the Russia investigation, that Mr. McGahn carried out those orders, and that an aide to Attorney General Sessions approached congressional staff to ask for information that might damage the reputation of former FBI Director James Comey.
By State Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced a Senate resolution expressing support for the rights of the Iranian people to have their voices heard and condemning the Iranian regime ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: A Madison man was indicted on child pornography charges, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed introduction and conveyance of up to 5,000 acre-feet per year of Kern River water in the Friant-Kern Canal, for use within Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District over a five-year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Clarksburg, West Virginia, man has admitted to health care fraud, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Jan. 2, 2017, Tyrone Kevin Gregg, age 48, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery and specifically admitted to robbing or attempting to rob eight other banks in Maryland and Virginia from December 2016 through June 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: HEADQUARTERS TUPELO, MS - On December 23 and 24, 2017, Natchez Trace Parkway Law Enforcement Rangers conducted operations to detect and apprehend people engaging in illegal activity and disorderly conduct in certain parking lots and hiking trails along the Parkway. These operations resulted in the arrest of five individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A New Orleans woman was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for her involvement in a $2 million home health kickback scheme carried out through eight companies at nursing homes in four states in the Southeastern United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: For Soliciting a Minor to Be Transported Across State Lines for Prostitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Historic, comprehensive tax reform was the crowning achievement of Congress’ 2017 legislative accomplishments. Republican Senators rang in the New Year and new tax code cheering the tax overhaul in local papers across the country. Read more below...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: A federal Grand Jury returned a five-count indictment charging Cleveland Heights with conspiring to distribute marijuana and sending extortionate threats, U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Attorney General Jeff Sessions has selected the Eastern District of Arkansas to receive additional resources for the fight against violent crime. The district will receive an additional Assistant U.S. Attorney to focus exclusively on violent crime, one of 40 new federal prosecutors in 27 selected locations throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: New Orleans Area Woman Sentenced to More Than Four Years in Prison for Role in Approximately $2 Million Home Health Kickback and Identity Theft Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two Boone County residents pleaded guilty today to federal gun charges, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Justin Keith Branham, 34, of Alum Creek, entered his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Alisha Marie Esque, 27, of Julian, entered her guilty plea to aiding and abetting the theft of firearms from a federal firearms licensee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Nicholas Graziano, 54, of Melville, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months incarceration and fined $15,000 for distributing synthetic marijuana, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
