News from October 2018
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Workers continued cleanup progress after recently removing a 2,000-pound dust collector from a facility slated for demolition at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Investigation Targeted Sales of PCP, Crack Cocaine, and Heroin.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former executive vice president of State Street Corporation was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with engaging in a scheme to defraud at least six of the bank’s clients through secret commissions applied to billions of dollars of securities trades.

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement on the U.S. Trade Representative’s office announcement today that it intends to open trade negotiations with the European Union, Japan and United Kingdom.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Menard Hazelwood, age 29, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to assault of a federal officer and brandishing a firearm in the course of a crime of violence, in connection with the May 26, 2017, assault on two undercover Special Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: The United States has reached an agreement with Nomura Holding America Inc. and several of its affiliates (“Nomura"), which will pay a $480 million penalty to resolve federal civil claims that Nomura misled investors in connection with the marketing, sale and issuance of residential mortgage-backed securities...

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Demand by travelers interested in enrolling in the Transportation Security Administration’s TSA Pre✓® program has been so strong that a temporary application center will be stood up in the Asheville Regional Airport (AVL) from Oct. 29th until Nov. 9th.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: The 2018 CEDS Peer Review offers energy industry stakeholders the best opportunity to explore and provide input on cutting-edge cyber R&D.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that a federal jury in Bridgeport has found CHRISTOPHER HAMLETT, also known as “Cadi" and “Cadillac Black," 25, of Hartford, with multiple federal offenses related to the sex trafficking of minors.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Valerie A. Nickerson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a member of the Grape Street Crips gang was indicted today on additional charges in connection with the murder of a bystander at a summer cookout in 2010.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A member of the Grape Street Crips gang was indicted today on additional charges in connection with the murder of a bystander at a summer cookout in 2010, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a meth-trafficking conspiracy that resulted in a fatal shooting.

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, Ways & Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the United States Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer notified Congress that the Trump Administration intends to initiate new trade negotiations with the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Japan, respectively...

By USDA Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Unified Ltd., doing business as Pan American Banana (Pan American Banana), Los Angeles, Calif., for failure to pay for produce.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty in federal court today to the armed robbery of a hotel in Columbia, Mo., on May 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: MACON-- United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, Charles E. Peeler, announced Tuesday that 26-year-old Robert Murphy of Macon was sentenced by United States District Judge Marc T. Treadwell on Oct. 15, 2018, to 36 months imprisonment, followed by 25 years of supervised release and $3,000 restitution to three separate victims for possession of child pornography.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: The 2018 CEDS Peer Review offers energy industry stakeholders the best opportunity to explore and provide input on cutting-edge cyber R&D.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: TAOS, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management will conduct prescribed fires in the Río Grande del Norte National Monument during an approximate one-month period, beginning Oct. 22, 2018. The burns are located at Cerro Montoso and Cerro del Aire, 12 miles northeast and 4 miles northeast of Tres Piedras...

By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: ASHLAND, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today that the access road to the un-improved boat ramp will remain closed. Because winter is approaching, construction operations will discontinue through about April 1, 2019. The areas adjacent to the access road will remain closed until construction is completed in late 2019.