News from May 2018

By DOE Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: MOAB, Utah - A student group from the University of Utah’s Institute of Nuclear Materials Management chapter recently toured the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on May 4, 2018, Charles Cole Memorial Hospital, a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, agreed to pay the United States $373,547.54 to settle allegations from two self-disclosures...

By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: A former contractor at the Military Sealift Command was sentenced to 87 months for his role in a bribery and fraud conspiracy through which he received nearly $3 million in bribes from approximately 1999 to approximately 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Shayne Kniss, 42, formerly of Lake Oswego, Oregon, pleaded guilty today to one count of wire fraud for defrauding clients of his investment firm, Iris Capital Management Group, LLC (Iris Capital).
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Prior Sex Offender Faces at Least 10 Years in Prison.
By DOE Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: In honor of National Small Business Week, held April 29 to May 5, EM Update is highlighting small businesses that work at EM sites across the DOE complex. See a handful of the small businesses supporting the cleanup below.

By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS, Montana -- Reclamation's May forecast of the April through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn Basin is as follows...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of North Versailles, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to ten months’ imprisonment followed by eighteen months of supervised release for violating the terms of his federal supervised release imposed as part of Walls’ 2013 conviction for violations of federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: CLEVELAND - A Lorain man and an inmate at a federal prison in New Jersey were convicted by a jury for their conspiracy to commit murder for hire and to distribute cocaine.

By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Miguel Arias Velasquez, 21, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to participating in a heroin and fentanyl trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Today, United States Attorney John F. Bash announced changes to his supervisory staff within the District.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone National Park and the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center will celebrate World Migratory Bird Day Saturday, May 12, with free public programs and a field trip.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: GREENVILLE- United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced AARON CODY MAYNOR, 28 from Pembroke, to 108 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release for robbery and brandishing a firearm...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Carey Ackies, 36, of Jamaica, Queens, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 230 months in prison and eight years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute heroin and 28 grams or...
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: The Redwood Parks Conservancy invites mountain bikers to take an exhilarating ride through redwood forests and the Mill Creek Watershed in Del Norte Redwoods State Park with Del Norte Trails Alliance founder Joe Gillespie. Riders will meet at the trailhead, then journey up and travel along Rellim Ridge...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Kevin R. Foster, 42, of Montclair, N.J. with charges related to a fraud scheme in a second superseding indictment returned here today.

By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Loveland, Colorado -- The Bureau of Reclamation's Eastern Colorado Area Office will be conducting a routine inspection of Granby Dam Dike No. 3 beginning the week of May 14, 2018. The drilling is part of a periodic evaluation that all Reclamation dams undergo.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Rochelle Pernell, of Fairmont, West Virginia, has admitted to obstructing mail, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.

By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Yoder. As you noted, the bill before us contains $3.81 billion, excluding the $1.07 billion requested by the Senate. The agencies in the Leg Branch bill almost all receive what they requested after taking into account their funding in the FY2018 omnibus. With $456.4 million for...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Cambria County resident was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charge of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.