News from March 2018
By EPA Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Subcommittee on Environment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today announced the dates of three additional budget and oversight hearings for the committee.
By State Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: Memorandum of Consultations. Delegations representing the United States of America and the Republic of Guinea met on December 8, 2016, in Nassau, Bahamas, at ICAN 2016 and, through subsequent communications, reached agreement, ad referendum, on the text of a bilateral Air Transport Agreement (the “Agreement").
By State Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after an hour-long meeting with Mike Pompeo, President Donald J. Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary of state.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- Storytellers weave tales about water at 7 p.m. on March 24, 2018, for a “story slam" and campfire on the grounds of the Dante Fascell Visitor Center. The free event is hosted by Gabriela Fernandez of the Moth in Miami. The event comes with s’mores and telescopes for viewing the night sky.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A Guatemalan man, illegally residing in eastern Iowa, was sentenced in federal court Monday for presenting fraudulent documents to obtain work less than a week after he was arrested for illegally entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A brother and sister from Plainfield, New Jersey, were indicted today on drug distribution, felony possession of a firearm, obstruction of justice, and other charges resulting from a violent encounter with law enforcement officers in October 2017, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: New Jersey and Chicago-Area Defendants Convicted as Part of Operation Grand Champion.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on March 16, 2018, LUIS RIVERA, JR., also known as “Pop" and “Gordo," 43, of New Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Alfredo Cardenas-Suastegui (Cardenas), 57, of Michoacán, Mexico, was sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana in the Sequoia National Forest, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill also ordered Cardenas to pay $5,233 in restitution to the U.S. Forest Service for the damage to public land and natural resources.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the three House Democratic leaders of the Committees with jurisdiction over health care, Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), released a joint statement denouncing the Republicans’ partisan proposal regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joseph P. Kelly announced that Lenn W. Zuhlke, age 56, of Bancroft, Nebraska, was sentenced today by the Honorable Laurie Smith Camp having previously pled guilty to aiding and abetting a bank robbery at the First Bank of Bancroft. Zuhlke was sentenced to 17 months’ imprisonment and 2 years’ supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man today admitted robbing seven banks - and attempting to rob an eighth bank while brandishing a firearm - committing one carjacking and attempting to commit three additional carjackings, and taking a hostage at gunpoint while fleeing, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will grant Cawelo Water District $750,000 for its Famoso Basin Pipeline Project through a 2016 CALFED Water Use Efficiency Grant.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Farmers Best of NYC Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KEVIN SAM, age 43, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to a Superseding Bill of Information charging him with conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute heroin, possession with the intent to distribute heroin, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Peter Hankish, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 57 months incarceration for firearm and drug charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement about the Turkish offensive in Afrin, Syria.
By State Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Roger Shane John, 32, of Turlock, pleaded guilty today to aiming the beam of a laser pointer at a Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department helicopter, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Gustavo Millan-Arizmendi, 29, an illegal alien from Mexico, was sentenced today by US. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 82 months in federal prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Thomas M. Annello, Acting Special Agent in Charge of U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
