News from May 2017
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: BOULDER, Colo.-National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physicists have solved the seemingly intractable puzzle of how to control the quantum properties of individual charged molecules, or molecular ions. The key: use the same kind of “quantum logic" operations designed for carrying out computations in future quantum computers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that BRIAN THOMAS GREEN, age 44, of Mount Pleasant, Texas, pled guilty to USE AND CARRY OF A FIREARM DURING AND IN RELATION TO A CRIME OF VIOLENCE, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 924(c)(1)(A), 924(j)(1) and 2; punishable by any term of years up to life imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement regarding the tunnel cave-in at the Hanford Site containing contaminated materials and equipment from Cold War operations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), a branch of FEMA, is hosting its annual Arson Awareness Week from May 7 to 13. This year’s theme is “Preventing Arson at Houses of Worship." Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler for the Southern District of Alabama is encouraging our local religious communities...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: A man who made false statements to Farm Credit Services of America (FCSA) pled guilty on May 9, 2017, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Tyrone Goodrum, age 45, of Florence, has been sentenced to 46 months imprisonment for Conspiracy, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. He also was ordered to pay over $146,000 in restitution to the federal government. Goodrum...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Amanda K. Wentzell, 26, of Augusta, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to stealing mail while being a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Christopher Mark Heath, 38, a former deputy sheriff of the Yuba County Sheriff’s Office, California, was convicted of possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, conspiracy to manufacture and distribute 100 kilograms of.
By EPA Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a legislative hearing for Wednesday, May 17, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Initiatives to Advance Public Health."
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - A Mexican citizen unlawfully present in the United States was charged Wednesday in federal court for fraud and being in possession of forged alien registration card. The charges stem from an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removals Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Omar Beasley and his co-conspirators trafficked heroin and other drugs to the Red Lake and White Earth Indian Reservations from Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Raleigh County man was sentenced today to five years in federal prison and ordered to pay a $25,000 fine for a witness tampering crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Mark Radcliffe, 60, of Shady Spring, was convicted in October 2016 of conspiracy to tamper with a witness following a three-day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - - James P. Shroba, Special Agent-in-Charge of the St. Louis Division announced that a California man pled guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine that was shipped from California to Springfield, Missouri.
By State Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: New York Times. The Opinion Pages | OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS. A Better Way to Help the World . By BOB CORKER and CHRIS COONS. MAY 10, 2017. The suffering today in northern Uganda and South Sudan should move even the most hardhearted among us. As members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, we often ...
By US DOT Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), the top Democrat on the Fisheries, Wildlife and Water Subcommittee, led their EPW colleagues in calling on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator ...
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: (Pinedale, Wyo) - The BLM’s Pinedale Field Office has taken an important step toward finalizing analysis of The Riley Ridge Development in Sublette County, Wyoming by releasing a Draft Environmental Assessment. The release of the EA begins a 30-day public comment period that will close on June 8, 2017. The EA is available for review at.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Matthew Sutton (619) 546-8941.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Two men were sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a fraudulent scheme to obtain and re-sell more than $330,000 in new cell phones.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - On Tuesday, May 9, 2017, Dr. Robert M. Ritchea, 54, of LaGrange, Georgia, was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison for operating a “pill mill" through his medical practice and for money laundering, announced Acting United States Attorney A. Clark Morris. A “pill mill" is a medical clinic created to dispense controlled substances inappropriately, unlawfully, and for non-medical reasons.
