News from October 2018
By DOE Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - On Oct. 4, the EM Los Alamos Field Office and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B), with support from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), safely and successfully completed the first waste shipment from Technical Area 54’s Area G at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) since WIPP resumed operations in January 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - About 8,500 gallons of low-level liquid waste from an underground waste tank at Savannah River Site (SRS) have been treated and transferred to Saltstone Disposal Unit (SDU) 6, making this the first transfer of radioactive liquid waste to the mega-volume unit.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A San Diego woman has been arrested on federal fraud and identity theft charges that allege she ran a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme in which she solicited funds from investors by falsely claiming their money would be used to make short-term construction loans to other investors seeking to defer capital gains taxes through “1031 like-kind exchanges.".
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - A former Erie County, New York Democratic party chair pleaded guilty today to conspiring to illegally cause a $25,000 campaign donation from a foreign source to a New York state official running for reelection.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), introduced the Fairness for Every Driver Act. This legislation will save billions in taxpayer funds by ending the federal electric vehicle tax credits and strengthen the Highway Trust Fund by ensuring that alternative fuel vehicle drivers pay into it.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in robbing the PNC Bank branch in Marlton, New Jersey, on Dec. 8, 2017, as well as two other bank robberies, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The co-owners of a Boston-area home healthcare company were charged in federal court in Boston today for underreporting income to the IRS resulting in over $1 million in losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, Leroy Scott, a resident of Queens, pled guilty at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, to armed bank robbery and a related firearms possession charge. When sentenced, Scott faces up to 25 years’ imprisonment for the bank robbery and a minimum of seven years’ imprisonment and up to life imprisonment for the firearms charge.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court's announcement that it will not hear litigation over an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation restricting certain ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Gerald W. Mercer, 42, was sentenced on Thursday to 191 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. District Judge Curtis V. Gomez also sentenced Mercer to five years of supervised release, 400 hours of community service, and a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the sentencing of PAUL LEWIS AXELSON, 42, a registered sex offender, to 216 months in prison on one count of receipt of child pornography. AXELSON, who pleaded guilty on Feb. 13, 2018, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A former Missouri state trooper was sentenced in federal court today for transmitting sexually explicit photos of a teenage victim.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: Following the announcement today of year-round sales of fuel blends containing 15 percent ethanol, or E15, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member and Congressional Biofuels Caucus Co-Chair Collin Peterson, D-Minn., welcomed the news and pushed for legislation to make progress on renewable fuels more permanent.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - A broad group of stakeholders have voiced support for S. 3021, America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Assigns Additional Prosecutor & Reaffirms Commitment to Purchase and Pennyrile Regions through Project Safe Neighborhood Efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A convicted felon was sentenced Tuesday to 77 months in federal prison for illegally possessing four firearms, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced JOHN DEVERE BATTLE, 25, of Durham, to 1,272 months imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release. He...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A 57-year-old man from Fairhaven, MA, was sentenced today to 97 months in federal prison for traveling in interstate commerce to engage in sexual activity with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shawn Sylvia, 35, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, was sentenced to serve 62 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was also ordered to pay $283,851.53 in restitution to victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Nilda N. Morton, 33, was sentenced on Thursday to 37 months in prison, to be run consecutively from any other sentence she is currently serving, for her contempt of Court for her refusal to testify in a revocation proceeding, after being ordered by the Court to respond to questioning...
