News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: Hot Springs, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Steven Nelson a.k.a Steven Varnes, age 40, of Lonsdale, was sentenced yesterday to 78 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Receiving and Possessing an Unregistered Firearm. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Hot Springs.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation’s vote to approve the nominations of Heidi King to be Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Peter Feldman to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 168 months in prison for his leadership role in a massive drug distribution ring responsible for selling millions of dollars’ worth of heroin out of a residential building near a high school in Newark, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MOHAMED H. ABDI, also known as “Vic," 26, of Worcester, Massachusetts, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 135 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for sex trafficking.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Brenda Burman, Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, announced that five individuals were awarded a total of $47,500 for their innovative solutions to protect large hydraulic steel structures from corrosion during Stage 1 of the Long-Term Corrosion Protection of Existing Hydraulic Steel Structures Prize Competition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERIC SMITH, also known as “Hood," 30, of Hartford, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 40 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing heroin and crack cocaine in Hartford.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Democratic Ranking Members of eight House Committees with jurisdiction over the Department of Commerce sent a letter to the Agency’s Inspector General, Peggy Gustafson, requesting an investigation into Secretary Wilbur Ross’s compliance with federal ethics requirements, his ongoing issues with conflicts of interest, and his potentially false comments regarding certain financial holdings.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Senator Tom Carper D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), top Democrat on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Attorney General Jeff ...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 27, 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 markup on H.R. __, Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2018, H.R. 959, H.R. 1676, H.R. 3728, and H.R. 5385...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: In response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s release this week of its proposed 2019 Renewable Volume Obligation levels for ethanol, biodiesel and other renewable fuels, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin C. Peterson released the following statement, calling on EPA to address the larger issue of exempting oil refiners from their obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standard...
By State Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the committee will meet TOMORROW, Thursday, June 28 at 10 a.m. to consider...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody has sentenced Lecardo Albury (32, Tampa) to 10 years and 8 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published the 2018 Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs) primer that highlights the resource potential of NGLs, with a focus on the Appalachian region. This publication provides an important update of a previous version from 2017, reporting even larger projections for ethane production from the Marcellus and Utica shale plays than previously estimated.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ- Grand Canyon National Park would like to invite the public to the 7th.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Robert Gibeault, Jr., age 49, of Gansevoort, New York, appeared today in federal court on charges that he distributed child pornography over the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Chief United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner sentenced Nathan A. Ott, age 34, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, to 210 months’ imprisonment for conspiring to distribute fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is accepting the public’s input on a proposal to amend the Arizona Strip Resource Management Plan (RMP) as part of its evaluation of the proposed Lake Powell Pipeline route in the Kanab Creek Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC), located south of the Kaibab Paiute Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted four Georgia men for the May robbery of an east Alabama bank, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a markup considering five public health measures.
