News from June 2018
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM Assistant Secretary Anne White joined local community leaders here last week to break ground for a new and improved underground ventilation system at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).
By DOL Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on an extreme new right-wing proposal from Republicans that would undermine health care for patients, gut patient protections, and send health care costs skyrocketing. This proposal recycles the worst elements of the repeal proposals that failed in Congress last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - A Fairmont, West Virginia man was indicted today by a federal grand jury on a methamphetamine distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Jonathan F. Cowles, 47, of Honolulu, Hawaii, and formerly of Rowley, Massachusetts, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to six months in prison and three years of supervised release for wire fraud. Cowles was also ordered to pay $359,784.90 in restitution. He pled guilty on Jan. 22, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Copper Center, Alaska - Last weekend members of the Kennecott and McCarthy communities joined National Park Service staff to cut a ceremonial ribbon and celebrate the opening of the first interpretive exhibits at the Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark. The celebration also marked the twentieth...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ONEL ARANA-GERVACIO, also known as “Arana Ricardo Leon Cepeda," 44, a citizen of Mexico last residing in Houston, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 48 months of imprisonment for heroin trafficking and immigration offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Jessica Fithian, 34, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced in federal court to 6 months in prison for purchasing a firearm for a Massachusetts felon, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that VOLVY SMILOWITZ, a/k/a “Zev Smilowitz," pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy to corrupt the electoral process, in connection with an election in Bloomingburg, New York. SMILOWITZ pled guilty before United States District Judge Vincent Briccetti in White Plains federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Defendant Admitted to Using Messaging App to Induce More Than 25 Children to Send Explicit Videos, Photos.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Mexican Man Used a False Name and Social Security Number While Avoiding Being Sentenced for Aggravated Identity Theft.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after the Trump Labor Department finalized a rule easing restrictions on Association Health Plans (AHPs), which are exempt from some Affordable Care Act consumer protections...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: St. Louis -Scott Walsh, 46, of Kirksville, was taken into federal custody today on an Indictment charging him with enticing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct. Specifically, it is alleged Walsh contacted a minor online and caused him to produce an obscene video of himself and share it with...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM Carlsbad Field Office management and operations contractor Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP) recently announced the hiring of Pete Graham as the new chief of mining at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 48-year-old Edward Eugene Lowe, Jr., to 40 years in federal prison on child pornography charges, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Aleck Walker, 25, of Lapwai, Idaho, was sentenced today to a total of 166 months in federal prison by United States District Court Judge David C. Nye, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Judge Nye sentenced Walker to 46 months in prison for assault with a dangerous weapon and an additional...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Used Another’s Social Security Number to Get Work and Register a Car.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: A former federal grand juror pled guilty today to obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that Samuel Bobby Wright, age 67, and Horace Edmond Wright, age 52, of Charleston, South Carolina, pled guilty to multiple counts of Distribution of Heroin, in violation of Title 21 U.S.C. § 841. Additionally, Samuel Bobby Wright...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Marlin E. Beckner, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on methamphetamine distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Fernandino Rodriguez-Colon, age 39, of York, Pennsylvania, was indicted on June 13, 2018, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
