News from June 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (DFL-Minn.), Ranking Member of the House Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, today led House Democrats opposing the fiscal year 2019 Interior-Environment Appropriations bill during the Appropriations Committee’s mark-up of the legislation. House Republicans advanced their bill on a 25-20 vote with all Democrats voting in opposition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of Pittsburgh has been sentenced in federal court to four years of probation with eight months of home detention and ordered to pay $16,700.00 in restitution on his conviction of passing and uttering counterfeit money, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Luis Martinez, 43, Palmdale, California, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 84 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. Martinez pleaded guilty to this charge on March 20, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Deborah Bowers, 63, of Clarence, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and making false statements, was sentenced to time served by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: A paralegal employed by the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, has been arrested on federal child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Two men from Kansas City, Kan., were indicted today on charges of possession with intent to distribute more than two pounds of heroin, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: NISKAYUNA, N.Y. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has completed the last phase of building demolition at the Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU), located at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass. - Cape Cod National Seashore and Cape Cod Healthcare are extremely pleased to announce the fourth season of their partnership initiative that benefits Cape Cod residents and visitors.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Los Angeles resident was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for two child exploitation offenses, including engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places and traveling in foreign commerce for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct, announced John P. Cronan, Acting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that a Taiwanese teenager accused of threatening an attack on a high school in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania has been charged federally.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 40-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been indicted and charged with federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: The U.S. House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2018 (H.R. 8), bipartisan legislation that provides for improvements to the Nation’s ports, inland waterways, locks, dams, flood protection, ecosystem restoration, and other water resources infrastructure that is essential to economic growth and American competitiveness. The bill passed by a vote of 408 to 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: “Far too often in this country, we as a nation have grieved the brutal murders of innocent people as a result of mass shootings and terrorism. Americans should be safe from such terror, no matter who or where they are. Studying in school or going to work, worshiping at church or cheering for friends...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: Defendant is latest to be sentenced out of nearly two dozen defendants after long-term narcotics investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - United States District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced the former owner of a Prince George’s County liquor store, Shin Ja Lee, age 56, of Highland, Maryland, to twelve months and one day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for bribery, in a scheme involving alcoholic beverage licenses in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The defendant also was ordered to forfeit $242,945.43, and to pay an additional fine of $50,000.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing on “Examining the Reauthorization of the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act:"
By EPA Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), held a hearing today to review a discussion draft that would reauthorize the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act. H.R. __, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2018, drafted by Reps.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement on Facebook allowing Chinese technology companies access to data of users and users’ friends without explicit consent.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: Defendants Used Facebook to Market and Sell Firearms Illegally Obtained by Straw Purchasers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: Largest increase in AUSA’s in decades, allocates four prosecutors to the Southern District of Indiana to focus on violent crime and civil drug enforcement.
