News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Victim Shot in Broad Daylight Near Food Market.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement after President Trump signed H.R. 1109, a bill authored by committee member Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), into law last week.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: CAREY, OH - Continental Structural Plastics Inc. faces proposed penalties of $107,168 after an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) found employees exposed to amputation and struck-by hazards at its Carey, Ohio, facility.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is announcing awards of up to $28 million to support the research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) of next-generation tools and technologies to improve the cybersecurity and resilience of the Nation's critical energy infrastructure, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Defendant and three others lured boy in “catfishing" scheme and killed him on public beach.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: DENVER - The leader of a European-based drug trafficking organization, which operated in secret using the Darknet, was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in federal prison for conspiracy to import controlled substances into the United States, and conspiracy to launder money.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Settlement Resolves Federal and State False Claims Act Claims Arising from ABC’s Operation of a Sham Pharmacy that Illegally Repackaged Injectable Drugs Under Insanitary Conditions to Profit from Overfill.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: On Sept. 28, 2018, a former Miami-Dade County resident was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for attempted international narcotics trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) issued the following statement regarding the Sept. 30 expiration of the Land and Water Conservation Fund’s (LWCF) authorization.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Troy Graham, 35, of Louisiana, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 229 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for extortion, brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a robbery, and possession of a firearm by a felon, announced U.S. Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced today that Charles Davis, III, age 46, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Sept. 28, 2018, to three years’ imprisonment and to serve four years on supervised release by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, for his role in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that operated in Luzerne County during February through November 2014.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has signed a strategic partnership with the Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute’s Safety, Health, and Environmental Services Group, and Barton Malow Construction Co. to promote worker safety and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Carlos Cisneros-Razo, 45, of Milton-Freewater, Oregon, was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for dealing methamphetamine. Upon completion of his prison sentence, Cisneros-Razo will be on supervised release for four years.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: WHEELING - On the first day of National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell is applauding the Justice Department’s announcement of more than $6 million in grant funding to West Virginia to combat the opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Robert McLain, 26, of Groveton, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a fentanyl drug trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - Twenty-six individuals have been indicted and more than two-dozen firearms, including three AK-47 and two AR-15 assault rifles, along with significant quantities of heroin, fentanyl, crack cocaine, and methamphetamine have been seized in a series of Project Safe Neighborhoods federal investigations into firearm and drug trafficking in and around Providence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that James W. Pilsner, age 60, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, former Vice President of Rite Aid, pleaded guilty today before United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, to vendor kick-back and tax evasion charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Teresa D. Hudrlik, of Valley Grove, West Virginia, has admitted to committing wire fraud while employed by the City of Wheeling, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Glacier National Park will host a Mt. Brown Hawk Watch Program on Saturday, October 13 from 12 pm- 4 pm near Lake McDonald Lodge. Park biologists will teach volunteers how to identify and count migrating raptors. The event is part of the park’s Year of the Bird celebration.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement after President Trump signed H.R. 1109, a bill authored by committee member Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), into law last week.
