News from July 2017
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Office of River Protection (ORP) contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently completed the first operating campaign of the year at Hanford ’s 242-A Evaporator, creating approximately 200,000 gallons of double-shell tank storage space.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - A 45-day program review underway aims to enable timely and effective EM decision-making, Acting EM Assistant Secretary Jim Owendoff told more than 50 people at the latest procurement forum on July 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Kamyar Jahanrakhshan, aka “Kamyar Jahan Rakhshan," “Andy or Andrew Rakhshan," “Andy or Andrew Kamyar," and “Kamiar or Kamier Rakhshan," 32, of Seattle, Washington, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with extortion by threats to cause damage to the Dallas, Texas hosting company for Leagle.com, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following joint statement on tax reform...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - Jonathan Andrew Hydro, 59, of Abilene, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 120 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in April 2017 to one count of receipt of visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the need for leadership at the Department of Homeland Security following the abrupt departure of Secretary John Kelly...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former senior official with the General Services Administration and her husband were sentenced today to 18 months and 1 year in prison, respectively, for engaging in a nepotism hiring scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: JULY 28, 2017 - The 2015 Rental Housing Finance Survey (RHFS) are now available on census.gov. This survey provides measures of financial, mortgage, and property characteristics of rental housing properties in the United States. Statistics include property, residential structure(s), and mortgage characteristics, ownership status, commercial use of space and benefits received. Internet address: /www.census.gov/programs-surveys/rhfs.html>.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Donald Ray Fritcher, age 36, of Salt Lake City, will spend 330 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to distribution of child pornography. U.S. District Judge Dale A. Kimball, who imposed the sentence, also placed Fritcher on supervised release for life when he finishes his federal prison sentence. There is no parole in the federal criminal justice system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that THOMAS HEAPHY, JR., 42, of East Moriches, N.Y., waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to conspiracy and tax offenses stemming from his role in a securities fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: Join us at our Van Buren Visitor Center on Sunday, August 6th, 1-4 pm, for a program on one room schoolhouses in the Ozarks. A Park Ranger will share the history of one room schools that were found along the Current and Jacks Fork Rivers. Hear stories about local Ozark schools and learn...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Andrew Fudge, an employee with Hanford Site contractor Mission Support Alliance’s cyber security team and member of the Washington Air National Guard, was recently awarded an Air Force Commendation Medal for helping develop intelligence for preventing cyber attacks against the Air Force.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) honored a Savannah River Site (SRS) contractor who has worked in engineering for more than 50 years.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- Storage levels in Fresno and Nelson Reservoirs are expected to continue declining through the middle of August. Both facilities primarily store water for irrigation and municipal use for the Milk River Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Janeski, age 38, of Edison, New Jersey was sentenced on July 27, 2017, by United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane to serve 360 months’ imprisonment for sexual exploitation of a child.
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement welcoming Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh - who was sentenced by a Vietnamese court to 11 years in prison for leading a Christian congregation in Vietnam - to the United States...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: CRATER LAKE, OREGON - Although there was an above average winter snowfall, the park has been experiencing above average temperatures and below average precipitation since mid-June. This has increased the fire danger at Crater Lake National Park. The outlook is for above normal temperatures and below normal precipitation for the next several months.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report requested by House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) and former Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) on government-wide efforts to reduce Social Security number (SSN) use.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Hanford Site crews are modifying a testing and training structure that will ensure safety and efficiency in the removal of radioactive soil under a building a few miles north of Richland.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign is designed to educate GA pilots about the best practices to calculate and predict aircraft performance and to operate within established aircraft limitations.
