News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE RODRIGUEZ, also known as “Juice," 48, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine and crack cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today rolled out legislation to give working Americans the flexibility to save for the future while having enough money to make their student loan repayments. Wyden’s introduction is in preparation for next year when it is expected that broader conversations on how to improve retirement policies will be debated in the 116th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Ahmed Mohammed El Gammal Helped a New York City Man Travel to Syria to Train with and Fight for ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: IAV GmbH (IAV), a German company that engineers and designs automotive systems, has agreed to plead guilty to one criminal felony count and pay a $35 million criminal fine as a result of the company’s role in a long-running scheme for Volkswagen AG (VW) to sell diesel vehicles in the United States by using a defeat device to cheat on U.S. vehicle emissions tests required by federal law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Dec. 17, 2018, Shawn Sanapaw (age: 38), of Keshena, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release by Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach after a conviction for Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury. The sentence was the result of a July 2, 2018, guilty plea entered before Chief Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Myles Davis, age 30, of Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo to five years’ imprisonment and four years on supervised release for his role in a Monroe County-based heroin and cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.-The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) last week recognized more than 190 staff members for their service to the country.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) and Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler demanding EPA immediately finalize its proposed ban of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Brandon L. Heaton, age 35, of Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 21 months’ imprisonment yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo for possession of stolen mail and bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A former employee pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling nearly $150,000 from Eldon Drug Company in Eldon, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Chassidy Dawn Burke, age 37, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(D), punishable by not less than 10 years and not more than life imprisonment, up to a $10,000,000.00 fine, or both.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
Release: Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 2018 - The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service today announced that representatives from the North Pole were among the visitors checking out the Agency’s new traveler information web page. The site, launched in September ...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: “Like trees in autumn shedding their leaves, going to dust like beautiful days to night, proclaiming as with the tongues of angels the natural beauty of death.".
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Savannah River Site (SRS) security contractor Centerra-SRS earned an overall “excellent" performance rating and $2.97 million, or 94 percent of the available fee for the DOE evaluation period of April 1, 2018 through Sept. 30, 2018, according to an award fee determination scorecard.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 252 months in prison for robbing 14 hotels in New Jersey and New York, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Defendants Had Been Drinking With the Victim Prior to the Shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today a new effort underway to reduce violent crime in the Rapides Parish area by partnering with federal, local and state law enforcement through the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: As part of this week’s funding opportunity (FOA) announcement from the Energy Department's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Office for approximately $37 million, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) expects to fund more than 100 new projects, totaling approximately $20 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DOUGLAS E. CASTLE, the owner of Global Edge Technologies Group LLC, a financial consulting firm located in Somers, New York (“Global Edge"), was sentenced yesterday to 50 months in prison for defrauding...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) today released the transcript of the second day of former FBI Director James Comey’s interview before the Committees.
