News from April 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) sent a letter to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel today requesting an investigation into whether there is a pattern of prohibited personnel practices taking place at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Concord - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray and Albert Angelucci, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New England Field Division, announced today that 45 individuals have been charged with participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. Also participating...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that LUQMAN GOTTI, formerly known as Timothy Pennington, 37, of Manchester, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with receiving and soliciting child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: SAN ANGELO, Texas - Lorenzo Hale, 52, of Coleman, Texas, appeared in federal court this afternoon and pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge E. Scott Frost to one count of convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, California. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) National Response Team (NRT) arrived on scene today to help investigate the three-alarm fire at the apartment complex that was under construction at 905 Galindo St., Concord, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND- James Struensee, 48 years old, of Dyer, Indiana, was sentenced before Hammond District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen following his plea of guilty for accessing an internet connected computer system with intent to view child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Superintendent Barbara Tagger invites the public to visit Horseshoe Bend National Military Park during the month of May to learn more about the history and wildlife associated with Horseshoe Bend. “All of our programming is free and open to the public. National Parks belong to all Americans, so come and visit anytime.".
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Under the leadership of Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), the Democratic Caucus of the House Natural Resources Committee met today to select a new ranking member of the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular, and Alaska Native Affairs (IIANA). The meeting was necessary to replace the former IIANA Subcommittee Ranking Member Norma Torres (D-Calif.), who recently resigned from the Committee to serve on the House Rules Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening statement for the markup of H.R. 1689, the Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: “Today Chief Judge Colleen McMahon notified me that the Court, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 546 (d), has appointed me United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. I thank the Court and I am grateful for its confidence in me. I look forward to continuing the great tradition of this Office...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass. - Cape Cod National Seashore is hosting two special events in collaboration with the Outer Cape Chorale as a prelude to the chorale’s upcoming May concerts that feature Mary Oliver poems and other works inspired by Cape Cod. Both national seashore programs are free and open to the public.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management is inviting the public to comment on its environmental analysis of a proposed amendment to a mining operations plan which would allow an additional 1.2 million tons of refractory ore to be hauled from the Cortez Hills Open Pit Mine to the Goldstrike Mine over an 18-month period.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that two inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution at Beckley were sentenced for being in possession of weapons. The cases were investigated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ahead of a proactively-titled full committee oversight hearing today at 2 p.m. ET, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) called out Committee Republicans for holding another in a long-running series of misleading hearings designed to undermine the National Environmental Policy...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Thank you to Chairman Reichert for holding this hearing today, and thank you to Mr. Owen and Mr. Cintron for being here today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: In an advance that could shrink many measurement technologies, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and partners have demonstrated the first miniaturized devices that can generate desired frequencies, or colors, of light precisely enough to be traced to an international measurement standard.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Must Forfeit Over $18 Million in Seized Cash and Money Orders.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that an Oak Hill man pled guilty to a gun charge in federal court in Beckley. Jordan Goard, 27, pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Stuart applauded the efforts of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the United States Marshal Service CUFFED Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys David Leshner (619) 546-7921 and Matthew Brehm (619) 546-8983.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a Federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned a three-count indictment charging HASAN EMINOF, age 20, of Wilmington, North Carolina, with two counts of Making False Statements to a Federal Firearm Licensee and one count of Possession of a Firearm by a Person Adjudicated Mentally Defective or Committed to a Mental Institution.
