News from March 2018
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Katmai National Park & Preserve, King Salmon, AK - A panel of National Park Service judges selected a design submitted by Naknek resident Ashlie Anderson as the winner of the 2018 Brooks Camp Bear Pin Design Competition.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - A 27-count indictment was unsealed today in the District of Puerto charging ten defendants with racketeering, conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, firearms conspiracy, interference with commerce by robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, and brandishing a firearm in relation to...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittees on Energy & Environment hearing on “Fiscal Year 2019 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Budget:"
By DOE Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) and the Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) today held a joint hearing examining the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Fiscal Year 2019 budget request.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) and the Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) today held a joint hearing examining the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Fiscal Year 2019 budget request.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - James D. Falkowski, a/k/a “Jamie Falkowski," 42, of Buffalo, New York, pleaded guilty on March 20, 2018 in federal court to criminal charges for which he was indicted including eleven counts of wire fraud, and one count of conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) today held a hearing examining the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) role in combating the opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Cape Girardeau, MO - Cory Hutcheson, 34, of East Prairie, MO, appeared today in United States District Court in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, following his indictment on eleven felony counts of Identity Theft in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028(a)(7). The indictment charges Hutcheson...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Payza.com Allegely Processed More Than $250 Million of Proceeds From Ponzi Schemes and Other Criminal Enterprises.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On March 19, 2018, Ronald Glen Shupe, 44, of Butler, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 37 months in federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance, and the use...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Van Buren, MO - Ozark National Scenic Riverways is hosting a river cleanup effort on April 7 with the Ozark Heritage Project. Following the historic flooding in 2017, we’ll be cleaning up flood debris that remains, focusing on heavily impacted areas near Eminence and Van Buren. Staff from Ozark National...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: Drug Trafficking Organization thought it was Buying Cocaine, Instead Law Enforcement Arrested Transporter with Meth Stored at ‘HomeAway’ Rental.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael White II, 18, of Canton, OH, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with a misdemeanor count of assaulting a federal officer. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.
By State Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), the Chair Emeritus of the Committee, today welcomed USAID’s provision of humanitarian assistance to Venezuelan refugees in Colombia and urged further support. The authors of the House-passed Venezuela Humanitarian Assistance and Defense of Democratic Governance Act of 2017 (H.R.2658 ) issued the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today outlined a three-part, pro-growth trade strategy that would put American leadership on center stage and focus on job creation at home. Hatch, who delivered the keynote address at an event co-hosted by the Business Roundtable (BRT)...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: During today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) renewed his call for the House Judiciary Committee to conduct oversight. Nadler and Committee Democrats have long called on the Judiciary Committee majority to hold hearings on the Trump Administration, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Graysville man to more than 20 years in prison for a 2016 carjacking in Forestdale, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - Justin Douglas Jones, 42, of Medford was sentenced today to 155 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release for armed robbery and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) today held a hearing examining the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) role in combating the opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 30-year-old Corpus Christi man has admitted he possessed child pornography, announced U.S. Ryan K. Patrick.