News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating the federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - David W. Lipscomb, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to eight months of home confinement to be followed by 28 months of probation for his role in a heroin distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Environment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), and Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement after the Senate passed S. 3021, the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, by a vote of 99-1. The bill now heads to President Trump’s desk for his signature.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man has been indicted for a $2.5 million tax fraud scheme that involved millions of dollars of false income he claimed for himself and his children.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A New Jersey resident was convicted by a federal jury today of two counts of threatening to murder U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo and members of the congressman’s staff, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: One year ago, the Department of Justice announced the revitalization and enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), which Attorney General Sessions has made the centerpiece of the Department’s violent crime reduction strategy. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “From Yellowstone's Grizzly Bear to the Chesapeake's Delmarva Fox Squirrel - Successful State Conservation, Recovery and Management of Wildlife." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Chariman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Chairman Michael C. Burgess M.D. (R-TX) released the following statement after President Donald Trump today signed two important bills into law, S. 2553 the Know the Lowest Price Act of 2018, and S. 2554 the Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has opened a funding opportunity for watershed groups to seek funding to implement on-the-ground watershed management projects for their communities. The funding provided through the Cooperative Watershed Management Program helps local stakeholders develop local solutions that will improve water reliability while reducing conflict, addressing complex water issues and stretching limited water supplies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that PAUL M. ROSENFELD has been charged in U.S. District Court for the Southern...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Request for Information (RFI)/Sources Sought for the Environmental Management (EM) WVDP Phase 1B D&D and Soil Remediation procurement at the West Valley site in western New York. The Phase 1 Decommissioning - Facility Disposition is currently performed by CH2M Hill - BWXT West Valley, LLC and expires on March 17, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a second letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos today seeking answers to a series of questions following concerning new reports on the company’s failure to curtail the sale of counterfeit products on its website. In the letter, Pallone expressed...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Environment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), and Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement after the Senate passed S. 3021, the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, by a vote of 99-1. The bill now heads to President Trump’s desk for his signature.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 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 Bergen County, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for using bogus litigation support companies to obtain millions of dollars from two law firms where she was a partner.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a hearing titled, “From Yellowstone's Grizzly Bear to the Chesapeake's Delmarva Fox Squirrel -- Successful State Conservation, Recovery, and Management of Wildlife."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former Leavenworth inmate was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison for attacking a Leavenworth prison guard with a pair of scissors, said U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister. The defendant also was ordered to pay $18,692 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - Michael Shane McCormick, Sr., 52, of Corbin, Kentucky, was sentenced Tuesday to 23 years in federal prison, by United States District Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, possessing a firearm in furtherance of that drug trafficking offense, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. McCormick, Sr.’s sentence was enhanced because his criminal history qualified him as a career offender and armed career criminal.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) deportation officers are among the most highly trained federal law enforcement officers in the United States. But who teaches them to be deportation officers? Answer: instructors at the Basic Immigration Enforcement Training Program (BIETP), located at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Michael A. Deshong (619) 546-9290.
