News from June 2017
By DOE Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River Site (SRS) continues to expand its use of passive groundwater cleanup systems that rely on nature to help lower costs, consume less energy, and reduce carbon emissions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Blas Aleman has been sentenced to 17 years, 11 months in federal prison after being convicted of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine. Aleman participated in the drug conspiracy in 2008, and after that time was believed to be on the run in Mexico. In March 2016, following his apprehension in Mexico, Aleman was extradited to the United States to face the federal drug trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Wheeling man had his initial appearance in federal court today after being indicted on drug charges by a federal grand jury in Wheeling on June 6, 2017, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced James Donald Jacola (54, Green Cove Springs) to five years in federal prison for receiving images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children over the Internet. He must also serve a 10-year term of supervised release, register as a sex offender, and forfeit his computer equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Cordelle Joseph (45, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago) to six years and three months in federal prison for possessing more than 100 grams of heroin with the intent to distribute it. He pleaded guilty on May 13, 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - EM relies on new technologies to address challenging deactivation and decommissioning (D&D) projects. Ensuring such tools integrate into the cleanup program safely and smoothly is critical.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -David Abrisz, 55, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty this morning in federal court to child pornography charges. The guilty plea was entered under a plea agreement that recommends that Abrisz be sentenced to a 25-year term of imprisonment followed by up to a lifetime of supervised release. Abrisz, a previously convicted child sex offender, will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three individuals appeared in federal court today to face allegations that they conspired to distribute multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine in the New Brunswick, New Jersey area, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: In Austin, 64-year-old pilot Wayne Douglas Brunet faces up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty this afternoon to possession with intent to distribute between 50 and 100 kilograms of marijuana announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: Concord, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Mohammed Abdul Baten, 65, of Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty today to aiding and abetting visa fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that four additional defendants were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a conspiracy to use online escort and massage ads to lure robbery victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: Defendants flooded Leech Lake Indian Reservation with methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Collaboration between two EM sites thousands of miles apart will result in a safer, more efficient risk-reduction effort involving the relocation of radioactive capsules.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: Defendant allegedly flew armed 28 times from Logan Airport while not on official police business.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today welcomed the nomination of the committee’s Staff Director, Chris Campbell, to serve as Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Treasury Department and announced the committee's Policy Director, Jay Khosla, will succeed Campbell as Majority Staff Director.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Cordelle Joseph (45, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago) to six years and three months in federal prison for possessing more than 100 grams of heroin with the intent to distribute it. He pleaded guilty on May 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jose Dominguez, age 52, a resident of the Dominican Republic, was indicted by a federal grand jury with conspiracy to defraud the United States in relation to federal tobacco excise taxes.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - In keeping with the Administration’s America First Energy Plan, the Bureau of Land Management today released an updated environmental assessment of a proposed oil development project 15 miles southeast of Grand Junction for public review.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - A federal grand jury in Portland has charged W. Joseph Astarita, a member of the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) based in Quantico, Va., with three counts of making false statements and two counts of obstruction of justice. Astarita was one of a number of FBI agents assigned to the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and was present during the shooting of Robert LaVoy Finicum on Jan. 26, 2016, in Harney County, Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that United States District Judge James M. Munley sentenced Rehan A. Merchant, age 40, of Bushkill Falls, Pennsylvania, to 54 months’ imprisonment and a three-year term of supervised release, for conspiring to commit wire fraud and for committing aggravated identity theft.
