News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Largest Increase in AUSAs in Decades Allocates Prosecutors to Focus on Violent Crime, Civil Enforcement, and Immigration Cases.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: FARMINGTON, Pa., The Friends of Fort Necessity announced the speakers and dates for the 2018 Lecture Series at Fort Necessity National Battlefield. The programs will be held the second Saturday of June, July, and August at 3:30 p.m. in the Visitor Center of Fort Necessity National Battlefield.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings and Rep. Gerry Connolly, the Ranking Member and Vice-Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Chairman Trey Gowdy requesting he issue a subpoena for documents being withheld by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) relating to Administrator Scott Pruitt’s multiple abuses of authority in using agency staff for his own personal purposes.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is announcing that it will retain the current public scoping period for the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program environmental impact statement (EIS), scheduled to close on June 19, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Lori Lynn Pawielski ordered to pay $511,433 to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Largest Increase in AUSAs in Decades.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in a scheme that fraudulently obtained more than $24 million from the Post 9/11 GI Bill, a federal education benefits program designed to help veterans who served in the armed forces following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - An Owyhee, Nevada, man was sentenced today to 180 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release for second-degree murder of a person on Duck Valley Indian Reservation, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced they will issue new state by state scorecards.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Dinosaur, Colorado & Jensen, Utah - On Sunday, June 3rd, at approximately 6:10 pm, a motorist reported a wildfire north of Highway 40, near Dinosaur National Monument Headquarters. The fire is estimated to be approximately 17 acres and is expected to be contained by 6:00 pm on June 4th.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $24 million in funding for 10 projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program: Modeling-Enhanced Innovations Trailblazing Nuclear Energy Reinvigoration (MEITNER). MEITNER teams will identify and develop innovative technologies that enable designs for lower cost, safer, advanced nuclear reactors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Las Vegas, Nev., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine in Greene County, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Latasha Ellis, age 44, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today by the Honorable Laurie Smith Camp. Ellis had previously entered a plea of guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government. Ellis was sentenced to 6 months’ imprisonment to be followed by 3 years of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay $280,442 in restitution to the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Largest Increase in AUSAs in Decades Allocates Prosecutors to Focus on Violent Crime, Civil Enforcement, and Immigration Crimes.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after new reports disclosed that Facebook gave phone and electronic device makers access to vast amounts of user data...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Everitt Aaron Jameson, 26, of Modesto, pleaded guilty today to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona, as part of the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Childhood initiative, is hosting the ‘Be Here for Kids’ event on Friday, June 8, 2018 at the University of Arizona’s Student Recreation Center, located at 1400 E. 6th Street. The event will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Darryl Smith, 41, the manager of a Southeast Washington barbershop, pled guilty today to federal narcotics and firearms offenses stemming from an investigation into drug trafficking at the business and surrounding area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Williamsburg man who told an FBI undercover employee that he wanted to commit jihad was sentenced today to five years in prison for passport fraud and making false statements in his application to join the United States military.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today released the first video in a series featuring committee members highlighting their legislative efforts to combat the opioid crisis. These videos will highlight just a handful of the 57 legislative solutions the committee advanced to the full House in May.
