News from August 2018
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, spoke on the Senate floor and led a number of Senate Democrats in highlighting how the Trump Administration's proposal to replace the Clean Power Plan would lead to more toxic air pollution, higher energy costs and increased carbon pollution.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recognized 19 Better Buildings Challenge partners who achieved their energy productivity goals for 2018 and 26 partners who have set new Challenge goals after meeting their initial goals. Since the start of this voluntary program, Better Buildings Challenge partners together have saved $3.1 billion in energy-cost savings and 380 trillion British thermal units of energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Jose R. Almonte-Tejeda, 40, formerly of Lawrence, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to unlawfully possessing with the intent to distribute over 500 grams of cocaine.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Today 66 House Democrats urged Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler to suspend efforts to finalize a proposed rule that would roll back safety and security standards for chemical facilities established under the Obama Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A local woman has been ordered to federal prison following her conviction of 12 counts of mail and wire fraud and four counts of filing a false tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Gwendolyn M. Berry pleaded guilty Feb. 5, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: On Wednesday, the CL-215 “Super Scoopers" dropped water on the southwest edge to slow growth as the fire approached the Inside North Fork Road. Helicopters dropped water on spots near Camas Creek and in the Rogers Lake area to slow fire spread.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: TUSCALOOSA - A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a former Mexican federal police officer on drug possession charges for packages of cocaine and morphine found hidden in the exhaust manifold of a pickup truck he was traveling in through Alabama last year, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Ontario Lowery, 39, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 24 months in federal prison after the second revocation of his supervised release.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Top House and Senate Democratic health leaders released a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report today that exposes the deficiencies in the Trump Administration’s management of the 2018 Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) open enrollment period.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, SD - United States Attorney Ron Parsons joined Acting Associate Attorney General Jesse Panuccio and Office on Violence Against Women’s (OVW) Acting Director Katherine Sullivan at the 13th Annual Conference on Violence Against Women Tribal Consultation held at the Sioux Falls Convention Center on August 21-22, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Arlene Viridiana Moya, 23, of Texas, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge William H. Barbour to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Jere T. Miles of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations New Orleans Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal jury today convicted a Lancaster doctor of conspiracy for his role in a Medicare kickback conspiracy involving a Los Angeles-area home health agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal jury today convicted a Lancaster doctor of conspiracy for his role in a Medicare kickback conspiracy involving a Los Angeles-area home health agency.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), sent a letter to EPW Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) calling for an immediate hearing on the Trump administration's effort to freeze the fuel economy and vehicle greenhouse gas emissions ...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Today 66 House Democrats urged Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler to suspend efforts to finalize a proposed rule that would roll back safety and security standards for chemical facilities established under the Obama Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: BOISE - A multi-faceted, large-scale Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation has resulted in the federal indictment of sixteen defendants on drug trafficking, fraud, money laundering and counterfeit goods trafficking charges, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. The indictments were issued last week by a federal grand jury sitting in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Florida man was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston with conducting an extensive cyberstalking campaign that targeted his former classmate, a 30-year-old Massachusetts woman.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland -Dontaze Purnell Drake, age 41, of Baltimore, Maryland pleaded guilty today to involuntary manslaughter. Drake admitted that he caused a fatal collision on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway on Sept. 24, 2017, in which he was speeding, his blood-alcohol level was over the legal limit in Maryland, and he was driving on a suspended license.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: The sentence rendered today is the longest received by a defendant for an unauthorized disclosure of national defense information to the media. It appropriately satisfies the need for both punishment and deterrence in light of the nature and seriousness of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Stoughton man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston to 21 years in prison on kidnapping and drug charges.
