News from June 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will decrease flow from Lucky Peak Dam by 500 cubic feet per second (cfs) Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 8 am.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge has sentenced a convicted felon to eight years in prison for illegally possessing a handgun, which he used to intimidate his ex-girlfriend.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat watch for Lake Mead National Recreation Area June 17-22. Temperatures are forecast to reach 109-114 degrees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, NY, - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced today that Timothy Johnston, 36, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States and commit...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Antonio J. Spiva, 25, and Charles M. McBeath, 33, both of Dayton, were sentenced in U.S. District Court this week for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl that resulted in the death of at least two individuals. Each defendant pleaded guilty in January.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Two McCracken County, Kentucky residents pled guilty in United States District Court yesterday, before Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, to a single charge, in a superseding information, of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jerome Randolph, 33, of Philadelphia, PA, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute heroin, was sentenced to 195 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a committee legislative hearing on S. 517, the Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Greg Walden (R-OR), announced that the following committee activity has been postponed for today, Wednesday, June 14...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the attack on members of Congress, staff, and U.S. Capitol Police this morning...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Daniel Pallis, 29, of Dresden, Maine, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack."
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a markup of nominations for the Department of Treasury and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...
By State Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at. 9 a.m. 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “The FY 2018 Foreign Affairs Budget." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE. Below is Chairman Royce’s opening statement, as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A local man has been ordered to federal prison for 50 years following his conviction of sexual exploitation of children and for knowingly making a false claim in the nature of preparing and filing a false tax return, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez along with Special Agent in Charge D. Richard Goss of IRS-Criminal Investigation (CI) and Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI. Benjamin Douglas Guidry pleaded guilty Sept. 29, 2016.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the attack on members of Congress, staff, and U.S. Capitol Police this morning...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Christopher J. Pratt, age 53, of Albany, appeared today in federal court on charges that he possessed child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that STEFAN LUMIERE, a former portfolio manager at Visium Asset Management, L.P. (“Visium"), was sentenced to 18 months in prison in connection with his conviction following a jury trial for engaging...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: Cincinnati - The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of a Time and Materials task order off an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to STC Environmental Services JV, LLC located in Albuquerque, NM. STC Environmental Services JV, LLC is a Small Business. The task order...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 23-year-old Eagle Pass, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Colleen Calamia, 38, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 12 months and 21 days in prison, which she has already served, followed by three years of supervised release for harboring and concealing a federal fugitive. The sentence was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney and U.S. Marshal Conrad E. Candelaria.
