News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Benton man was sentenced Monday to 15 months in prison for defrauding a local credit union out of $177,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Cambria County resident was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charge of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOL Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Today, the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL), held a hearing to examine the implications of the opioid epidemic for the Department of Labor’s (DOL) workers’ compensation program for federal employees under the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA).
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MN: The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla #091-30-07 donated ten lifejackets to Voyageurs National Park this year in the hopes to increase youth safety. The Auxiliary was awarded a grant from the National Safe Boating Council to promote youth wearing personal flotation devices (PFD’s). Voyageurs National Park will use the PFD’s for youth at the Rainy Lake, Kabetogama, and Ash River Visitor Centers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: A jury convicted two Cleveland men for their roles in armed robberies of Dollar Tree stores in Cleveland in May and June 2016.
By State Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at a full committee hearing on the Iran nuclear agreement...
By DOE Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: ROSWELL, N.M. - EM Assistant Secretary Anne White recently told the chairs and vice-chairs of the EM Site-Specific Advisory Board (SSAB) that she looks forward to receiving their input as she renews a completion mindset for the cleanup program.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park on Monday announced that new operating hours for visitation will be 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Antwone K. Dean, 37, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, was sentenced to 120 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Martinsburg man and a Kearneysville woman have admitted to federal charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Kristopher Pylant, of Upper Darby, PA, was sentenced on May 3, 2018, to 30 years in federal prison for manufacturing thousands of sexually explicit images of his minor stepdaughter and for his possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Denton Worrell, a/k/a “Lil D", 20, of Rochester, New York, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack.".
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: “I would like to commend the jury for its careful review of the evidence presented in this case. For the past three weeks, the members of the jury patiently listened to many hours of testimony about the fraud perpetrated by David Shulick on the Philadelphia School District and, by extension, the students of Delaware Valley High School’s Southwest School.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after President Trump sent Congress a rescissions package that cuts $7 billion of funding from the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Georgina Fisher, a/k/a Georgina Baratta, 47, of Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of attempting to cause a financial institution to fail to file a transaction report, was sentenced to one year probation by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Yoder, Ranking Member Ryan, and Chairman Frelinghuysen, for your work on this bill.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Fanny Melina Zelaya-Mendez (39, Jacksonville) with three counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and Roger Omar Zelaya-Mendez (33, Jacksonville) with one count of conspiracy to commit...
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to our witnesses for joining us this morning.
By DOE Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) say their commitment to applying lessons learned has helped keep them on track to reach a major milestone in legacy waste disposition later this year.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL), the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government...
