News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Museum today opened its newest exhibit, “Behind the Scenes: Forensic Science Programs at DEA," which will be on display through fall 2019. The exhibit is part of the DEA Museum and Visitors Center, located at 700 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, Virginia, 22202. The museum is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, and is closed on federal holidays.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service at the Eisenhower National Historic Site and the Gettysburg Foundation invite you to celebrate this holiday season at the home and farm of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower. The Eisenhower home will be decorated for Christmas, December 1 through 31, 2018. The celebration includes...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: Two Additional Mississippi Real Estate Investors Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Rig Bids at Public Foreclosure Auctions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gwendolyn Alcazar, 36, of Pasadena, Calif., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Derrius Smalls, 20, of Rochester, New York was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Bangor, Maine to three years in prison and a three year term of supervised release, including a six month term of community confinement, following his conviction for possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine and heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: How long can tiny gears and other microscopic moving parts last before they wear out? What are the warning signs that these components are about to fail, which can happen in just a few tenths of a second? Striving to provide clear answers to these questions, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method for more quickly tracking microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) as they work and, just as importantly, as they stop working.
By State Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following remarks on the House floor today in support of H.R. 6207, the Democratic Republic of Congo Democracy and Accountability Act, which passed the House today...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Equanzick Howell a/k/a “Pookie," “Big Pook," and “Pook Pook" (31, Tampa) to 11 years and 2 months in federal prison for theft of government property and aggravated identity theft. Howell had pleaded guilty on Aug. 16, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: A Guatemalan man who used another person’s social security number to complete employment paperwork was convicted by a jury on Nov. 26, 2018, after a one-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jeremy Brown, 27, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 60 months in prison for possessing a firearm while trafficking fentanyl. Brown will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A City of Orange tax return preparer has pleaded guilty in a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service out of hundreds of thousands of dollars through the submission of fraudulent federal income tax returns for both himself and his clients.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today is pleased to announce that Stephen Vaden was approved by the U.S. Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of San Antonio, Texas, has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months incarceration on his conviction of Threatening Interstate Communications, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today named an Inglewood man in a three-count indictment that accuses him of stealing two government vehicles and illegally charging more than $15,000 on U.S. government gas cards for gas that he sold to friends at a discount.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the release of United Nations Emissions Gap report...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the following statement after the House passed an amended bill reauthorizing the U.S. Coast Guard. The bill includes the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (VIDA) - a bipartisan ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Cedar Lake, Indiana Latin Kings gang member, was sentenced to 324 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit racketeering activity and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana for his role and ...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following the release of a report by the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) showing that the administration waived background checks for staff members at the Tornillo Influx facility...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida, Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade State Attorney, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the release of United Nations Emissions Gap report...
