News from April 2018
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Salt River Bay’s Exhibit. The exhibit Pieces of the Past - The Human Story of Ancient St. Croix will reopen to the public in the second floor exhibit space of Fort Christiansvaern (Commandant’s Quarter). It will be available to visitors from Monday-Friday 9:00 AM-4:00 PM.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Socorro, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Socorro Field Office and Gila National Forest are delaying implementation of joint prescribed fires in east-central Catron County, due to fire activity within the state. Originally set to begin this week, the burns are now not expected to begin until May, weather permitting.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced today Roger Darryl Brooks, 49, of Dallas, Georgia, to 100 months in prison and five years of supervised release for trafficking methamphetamine, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By State Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A resident of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months’ incarceration, followed by three years’ supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in partnership with DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the American Wind Energy Association, released the United States Wind Turbine Database (USWTDB) and the USWTDB Viewer to access this new public dataset.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SAJID JAVED, an owner and operator of nine different pharmacies in the New York City area, pled guilty today to participating in a health care fraud scheme that used his pharmacies to submit more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Richard Conway, Chief of the Port Chester Police Department, announced today the unsealing...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced Kevon Melendez (22, Bradenton) to five years and three months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute carfentanil and cocaine. He pleaded guilty on Jan. 12, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: The financial manager of Atius Technology Institute (“Atius"), a privately owned, non-accredited school specializing in information technology courses, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to bribe a public official at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in exchange for the public official’s facilitation of over $1.4 million in payments that were supposed to be dedicated to providing vocational training for military veterans with service-connected disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Gregory Keith Clinton, of Kearneysville, West Virginia, was found guilty today by a jury of drug and firearm charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who allegedly sold hundreds of firearms without a license, some of which were subsequently used in crimes, was charged in federal court today, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: The Honorable Elaine L. Chao. Secretary. U.S. Department of Transportation. 1200 New Jersey Avenue S.E. Washington, D.C. 20590. Dear Secretary Chao: Less than two days after a provocative media exposé on weak Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) oversight of a low-cost carrier, the longest period...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Residents of California and Ohio were sentenced to more than five years in federal prison today for trafficking more than fifteen kilograms of methamphetamine into Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston felon who possessed a firearm in August 2017 was sentenced yesterday to five years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Vincent Deward Beatty, 40, previously pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the investigation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Gloria Harris, 56, of Memphis entered a guilty plea to a charge of bank fraud in connection with the theft of approximately $292,500 from her former employer, Crescent Medical Corporation. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the plea today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: APRIL 19, 2018 - Construction led all sectors in the largest rate of employment growth with an increase of 5.0 percent from 2015 to 2016, according to new U.S. Census Bureau economic statistics released today. Overall, construction employment grew from 6.0 million in 2015 to 6.3 million in 2016. In addition...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Albert Angelucci, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Shelly A. Binkowski, Inspector in Charge for the Boston Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment today charging seven individuals with trafficking cocaine from Puerto Rico to Connecticut through the U.S. Mail.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - All 24 Energy and Commerce Democrats sent a letter today to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar expressing serious concerns regarding HHS’ recent decision to, against longstanding Congressional intent, rescind existing guidance on the rights of Medicaid beneficiaries...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today announced details for the Thursday, April 26, 2018, hearing entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2019 Environmental Protection Agency Budget." The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt will be the sole witness.
