News from March 2018
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Tombigbee Pioneer Group will demonstrate pioneer era crafts and skills at the Parkway Visitor Center, from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm on Saturday, March 24, 2018. The demonstrations will show the challenges faced and creative solutions developed by those Americans who lived in the area from the 1700s to around 1840.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: Cody Mann Enticed a 4-Year-Old Child to Engage in Illegal Sexual Activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Committee Members Bonnie Watson Coleman sent a letter asking Chairman Trey Gowdy to issue a subpoena to compel officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to produce documents they have been withholding from Congress since November relating to their communications with corporate lobbyists and other matters.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROBERT WALTER MURRAY was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for manipulating the market for the stock of Fitbit, Inc. (“Fitbit"), by filing a sham tender offer with the Securities and Exchange Commission...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host four public scoping meetings as part of the ongoing land use planning for Bears Ears National Monument (BENM) and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM). Scoping efforts were initiated Jan. 16, 2018, for the BENM - Indian Creek...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Granby man was arrested last night and charged in federal court in Springfield with child exploitation offenses.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has launched a regional campaign to raise awareness about the four leading safety hazards in the construction industry. The “Focus Four Hazards" campaign will serve employers and employees in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has launched a regional campaign to raise awareness about the four leading safety hazards in the construction industry. The “Focus Four Hazards" campaign will serve employers and employees in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that David Castro, age 28, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine, before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - Dr. Jerrold N. Rosenberg, 63 of Warren, the operator of a now-defunct pain management practice in Rhode Island, was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison for committing healthcare fraud and for conspiring to solicit and receive kickbacks in return for prescribing the drug Subsys, a fast-acting, powerful, and highly-addictive version of the opioid drug Fentanyl.
By State Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming committee events...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement on the Department of Education’s announcement asserting that state laws protecting students do not apply to student loan companies.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has launched a regional campaign to raise awareness about the four leading safety hazards in the construction industry. The “Focus Four Hazards" campaign will serve employers and employees in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted KATHERINE T. CANCIENNE, age 40, on multiple counts of wire fraud in connection with a scheme to embezzle more than $387,000 from her employer, Engineers & Constructors International, Inc. (“ECI"), a consulting firm that provides engineering and managerial staffing to oil and gas companies. If convicted, the defendant faces a significant prison term, fines, and restitution orders.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), and Representative Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters to Citigroup and Apollo Global Management seeking information on reports...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and U. S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that Jarvis Hardy, 28, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged in a nine-count superseding indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for conspiracy to distribute 280 grams or more...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Zidre Cephas, of Wilmington, was detained pending trial Friday after being indicted[1] by a federal grand jury earlier this week for illegally possessing a firearm. According to court documents, Cephas ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, and sent letters requesting...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. -The owner and operator of a stock trading operation today admitted participating in a multi-year insider trading scheme that made over $3 million in illicit profits by exploiting material information in violation of confidentiality agreements, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2018
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, March 24, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a special 1-hour talk at Chickamauga Battlefield exploring the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion and their service during WWII. This talk will take place inside the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center.
