News from March 2018
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Boulder City, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation issued a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and Final Environmental Assessment (EA) today for the Planet Ranch Conservation Area. The EA details Reclamation’s proposed development and management of a portion of Planet Ranch in northwestern Arizona...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Spokane- Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Nolan Patrick John, III, age 25, of Toppenish, Washington, was sentenced after having pleaded guilty on December 6, 2017, to Voluntary Manslaughter. United States District Court Judge Salvador Mendoza, Jr. sentenced John to 78 months imprisonment, to be followed by a three-year term of court supervision after he is released from federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - More than ten defendants are facing federal drug charges for allegedly trafficking fentanyl, heroin and cocaine on Chicago’s South Side.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa -A longtime developer of low-income housing in Iowa, Jeffrey W. VOORHEES, has been charged with creating a false pass-through company in order to artificially inflate a loan to rehabilitate a housing development located in various towns and cities in Iowa, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID SHALAM pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn to a Superseding Information charging him with the production of child pornography. U.S. District Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein will impose sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ELIAS ESCARRAMAN 35, formerly of Springfield and Worcester, Massachusetts, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park welcomes April visitors with a flurry of opportunities to celebrate the 55th annual Merrie Monarch Festival, and National Park Week.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON ‐ A man using a false identification in a scheme to obtain a fraudulent government loan for damage sustained from Hurricane Irma is set to appear in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- Reclamation's March forecast of the April through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn Basin is as follows...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA). Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. (Remarks as Prepared). This hearing is a critical step in the process for developing the next Water Resources Development Act. Effective and reliable water infrastructure is vital to America’s global competitiveness. It supports...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Sessions and this Administration is wholly committed to working with our federal, state and local partners to ensure the safety of our streets, our families and our children. Frankly, we will no longer tolerate drug dealers, drug traffickers, violent criminals, or illegal guns on the streets of the City of Huntington.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 15-count indictment charging Richard C. Miller, 50, and Joseph Harvey, 54, both of Forestville, NY, with production, distribution, receipt, and possession of child pornography, conspiracy to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina-------United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that a hearing for Thomas Lawton Evans Jr., age 37, of Boiling Springs, South Carolina, has been set for Friday, March 16, 2018, at 11:00 A.M. in the federal courthouse, 85 Broad St., in Charleston, SC. The hearing was recently rescheduled from a later date. Evans is currently charged in a three count indictment and is scheduled to be arraigned on those charges March 16, 2018. ##.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Chicago-based partner in a global consulting firm has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for scheming with a client to bilk their companies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in purported consulting work that was never performed.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Cronan, the Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, announced that EBERHARD REICHERT, a former executive at Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (“Siemens AG"), pled guilty...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on “The Implementation of MACRA’s Physician Payment Policies." MACRA is the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. This hearing will take place on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 in 1100 Longworth House Office Building at 2:00PM.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that NICHOLAS AURORA JR., 33, of Hamden, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of possession with intent to distribute anabolic steroids.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: St. Augustine, FL - In honor of Women’s History Month, Castillo de San Marcos National Monument will host a special evening event on Saturday, March 24, 2018.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy, in partnership with the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), is hosting a free webinar titled “Energy Opportunities in Tribal Housing" on Wednesday, March 28, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mountain Time.
By State Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Dear Mr. President: I am writing to respectfully request that you review whether Russia should be subject to sanctions contained in the Chemical and Biological Weapons and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 following the poisoning of British citizen Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. I am encouraged...
