News from March 2018
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Modifications are complete to two of the reaction vessels of the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU), and crews are re-assembling the facility’s components in preparation for the next demonstration run this spring at EM's Idaho Site. The IWTU is designed to treat 900,000 gallons of liquid waste stored in underground tanks at the site.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: 23 Ghostface Gangsters Federally Indicted on Racketeering Conspiracy and Other Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Wilkin Andre Beltre Arias, 39, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced on Monday to serve 54 months in federal prison for participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed substantial quantities of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Today, Emmanuel Ahumada Flores, 32, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 14 years’ imprisonment. Flores had previously pleaded guilty to one count of abusive sexual contact with a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man pleaded guilty today to threatening to murder African-Americans at Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, D.C.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an Emergency Order of Revocation against Kornitzky Group LLC, doing business as AeroBearings LLC, of Arlington, Texas, for improperly overhauling and repairing turbine engine bearings.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that MICHAEL D. MIR, 41, of Waterbury, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to a federal tax offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Numerous Convictions in His Past, Including Attempted Murder.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced up to $7 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0001830, Transformational Pre-Combustion Carbon Capture Technologies. Projects...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - Outdoor enthusiasts have the opportunity to live and work in a beautiful northern California outdoor settings, in volunteer camp host positions offered by the Bureau of Land Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A New York man pleaded guilty today to defrauding a national trade association out of more than $1.1 million in an email phishing scam.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is preparing the Wright Area Coal Leasing 10th Circuit Court Remand Environmental Assessment (EA). The document is in response to the District Court’s Nov. 27, 2017 order requiring BLM to revise the environmental analysis for the leasing decisions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: North Carolina Cybersecurity Business Owner Wins FBI Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Shaiquan Wright, age 21, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty today to unlawfully possessing a firearm as a felon, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Ashan M. Benedict, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF).
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Pittsburgh, PA - Two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories with energy research expertise are joining forces to pursue research on new ways to use coal to create innovative high-value products. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed today by representatives of Oak Ridge National...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Dumont Dunes Subgroup of the California Desert Advisory Council will meet from noon to 2:30 p.m., March 24, at the Barstow Field Office, 2601 Barstow Rd. to discuss Dumont Dunes Recreation Area. The meeting is open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A jury today voted to convict Yana Potapova, age 29, and a Russian citizen residing in Schenectady, New York, of conspiracy to commit marriage fraud following a 5-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that a lengthy federal investigation into an extensive drug trafficking network based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana has resulted in the return of three grand jury indictments charging forty-one (41) separate individuals in more than 80 counts with...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy and Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte’s call for a second special counsel to investigate “potential bias and potential conflicts of interest" in the decisions of the Department of Justice in 2016 and 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Baton Rouge, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that a lengthy federal investigation into an extensive drug trafficking network based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana has resulted in the return of three grand jury indictments charging forty-(41) separate individuals in more than 80 counts with narcotics and firearms-related offenses.
