News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: A federal jury in Central Islip returned a guilty verdict today against Fernando Clarke, an investigator with the New York City Correction Department, on seven counts of transportation, receipt and possession of child pornography. Clarke faces a minimum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000, when he is sentenced by United States District Judge Arthur D. Spatt on April 13, 2018. Clarke remains in custody.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Kenai Fjords National Park has opened the Exit Glacier Developed Area to off road snowmachine use. Open areas include, the Exit Glacier Road, a designated route through the Exit Glacier campground to Exit Creek, and the Exit Glacier outwash plain.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Tonight, Subcommittee on Environment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) will host a special order in which he and other members of Congress will discuss the importance of getting H.R. 3053, the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act, signed into law.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Today, the three Democratic leaders of the Committees with jurisdiction over health care introduced a comprehensive bill that would improve the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces by making health care more affordable and by reversing the harmful Trump Administration actions that have sabotaged the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Kadoka, South Dakota, woman convicted of Wire Fraud was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Kesia Quinette Jackson has been sentenced for her role as an organizer in an armed robbery spree that spanned five counties, and target seven Wal-Mart Stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of New Hampshire announced that the Honorable Scott W. Murray was sworn in today as the United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire. Chief U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante administered the oath of office at the federal courthouse in Concord.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A former marriage and family therapist who was convicted by a jury of possession and receipt of child pornography and for soliciting a child to have sex with him was sentenced today to 300 months in prison and lifetime supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Division.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Democratic leaders sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt today regarding serious concerns of impartiality of current EPA political appointees, and to request additional information regarding appointees engaged...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - Matthew J. Higgins-Vogt, 25, of Decatur, Ill., was sentenced today to 60 years in prison for his role in an armed robbery of a Decatur Circle K convenience store and the murder of a 19-year-old Decatur woman, in April 2015. A jury convicted Higgins-Vogt’s co-conspirator Kelton Snyder in April 2016. On Oct. 24, 2016, Snyder was sentenced to life in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Barrett Johnson, 34, of Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute MDA, also known as “Molly," a Scheduled I controlled substance, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to 105 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., encouraged the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to implement agricultural provisions in the Bipartisan Budget Act in a timely, transparent, and producer-friendly way.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Tonight, Subcommittee on Environment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) will host a special order in which he and other members of Congress will discuss the importance of getting H.R. 3053, the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act, signed into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the convictions of Craig A. Morgenstern, age 49, of Nine Mile Falls, Washington, that resulted in 12 life terms of imprisonment. In 2016, a federal...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Democratic leaders sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt today regarding serious concerns of impartiality of current EPA political appointees, and to request additional information regarding appointees engaged...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management has removed some parcels in South Central Montana originally included in an upcoming March oil and gas lease sale in order to evaluate potential environmental impacts.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.) issued the following statement today in response to a proposed rule published by the EPA late last week to dilute requirements put in place in 2016 for the safe disposal of coal ash...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
Release: ERIE, Penn. - To ensure the security of airline passengers and the nation’s airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will begin implementing new, stronger screening procedures for carry-on items at Erie International Airport (ERI) beginning Tuesday, March 6th. The new procedures, which...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Tonight, Subcommittee on Environment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) will host a special order in which he and other members of Congress will discuss the importance of getting H.R. 3053, the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act, signed into law.
