News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska today filed its notice of intent to seek the death penalty against John Pearl Smith II, 32, of Palmer, for the murders of Wasilla residents Ben Gross and Crystal Denardi on June 5, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Alejandro Ascencio-Sotelo, a citizen of Mexico, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on an illegal reentry charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tamara L. Collier, Community Outreach Specialist and Reentry Coordinator for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Pennsylvania, was one of 162 members of the Department of Justice recognized by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) Director James Crowell, IV at the 34th Director’s Awards Ceremony Friday in Washington D.C.
By State Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “U.S. Policy Toward Afghanistan.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Monica Vega, 35, of Roswell, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking charges. Vega’s plea agreement recommends a ten-year prison sentence followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
Release: MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Transportation Security Administration discovered a loaded firearm at the Montgomery Regional Airport (MGM) checkpoint this morning.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM's Richland Operations Office (RL) and its contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC) have begun removing highly radioactive sludge from temporary storage near the Columbia River to a more secure long-term storage location near the center of the Hanford Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced that Cheryl A. Angell (age: 59) of Kaukauna, Wisconsin, was sentenced today in federal court in Green Bay for embezzlement of union funds. Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach sentenced Lewis to a thirteen month term of imprisonment and ordered her to pay $98,711 in restitution to United Steelworkers Local 2. Judge Griesbach also placed Angell on supervised release for three years.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today continued its two-week long consideration of dozens of bills to combat the opioid crisis. Passing the House today were 18 additional bills, including 12 from the Energy and Commerce Committee or that included provisions within the committee’s jurisdiction.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a hearing for Tuesday, June 26, 2018, at 1:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Shifting Geopolitics of Oil and Gas."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kevin DiMartino, 38, of Greece, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, including prepubescent images, was sentenced to 125 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Bruce J. Walker, Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) and Assistant Secretary for the Office of Electricity (OE), recently discussed the Department of Energy’s (DOE) efforts to bolster the resilience of the nation’s power grid, DOE’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Edgar Castillo-Alonso, 21, a Mexican national, pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to cocaine trafficking and child pornography charges arising out of seizures made on April 23, 2018, at the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on Highway 54 south of Alamogordo, N.M.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Bruce J. Walker, Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) and Assistant Secretary for the Office of Electricity (OE), recently discussed the Department of Energy’s (DOE) efforts to bolster the resilience of the nation’s power grid, DOE’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Robert Johnson Named Assistant Director of the Criminal Investigative Division.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a markup for Thursday, June 21, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Trump Administration issued the final rule for Association Health Plans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Greensboro, N.C. - One Lee County man pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an altered or obliterated serial number, and another Lee County man was sentenced for possession of ammunition by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Matthew...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $21 million for new projects to advance solar-thermal desalination technologies. These 14 projects are focused on reducing the cost of solar-thermal desalination and helping the technology to reach new markets, including to areas that are not connected to the electric grid.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Trump Administration issued the final rule for Association Health Plans.
