News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: A former Napoleon police officer was sentenced to two years in prison for child pornography crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging MICHAEL IMAN WHITE, 19, with robbery and attempted robbery of multiple Walgreens pharmacies.[1] WHITE, who was arrested on a federal criminal complaint on Aug. 22, 2018, will be arraigned tomorrow afternoon before a Magistrate Judge in U.S. District Court.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
Release: MENLO PARK, CA – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $120 million over five years to renew the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub devoted to advancing battery science and technology, led by Argonne National Laboratory.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A political consultant from Essex County, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for her role in a fraud scheme related to contracts with the Newark Watershed Development Corp. (NWCDC) and kickbacks to officials there, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a draft Environmental Assessment to disclose potential environmental effects and solicit public comments associated with the Siskiyou County project.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 18, 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 after the Department of Interior issued a final rule that weakens the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Methane and Waste Prevention Rule. This follows the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposal to weaken methane emission standards under the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) that Senator Carper spoke out against.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man admitted today that he possessed a firearm as a previously convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Brooklyn, New York, has pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Kristopher Douglas McKay, 36, of Boise, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to 108 months in prison followed by five years supervised release, for possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. McKay pleaded guilty on May 2, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), and William Cheung, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: Ramon X. Nunez-Polanco, 59, a citizen of Mexico and lawful permanent resident of the United States, has been sentenced to 80 months in federal prison for his participation in a drug conspiracy and firearms trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, ...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after President Trump signed H.R. 5385, the Dr. Benjy Frances Brooks Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2018, into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Melinda Bulgin found Guilty on all Fifteen Counts of Transnational Crime including Fraud and Conspiracy to Commit International Money Laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas W. Pilchak and Andrew J. Galvin (619) 546-9709 and (619) 546-9721.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: John Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that, on Sept. 14, 2018, MILTON WESTLEY, also known as “Reese," 20, of New Haven, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to a federal racketeering charge stemming from his role in a New Haven street gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Sept. 17, 2018 - David Hamilton Soderbom, 51, of Winchester, Tennessee, was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison for producing child pornography and for possessing thousands of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of minors, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Marlborough business owner was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester in connection with a scheme to commit bank fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Federal Emergency Management Agency WASHINGTON – FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), postponed the nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) until October 3 due to ongoing response efforts to Hurricane Florence.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: SNAP participants may use benefits to purchase hot and prepared foods and receive additional time to report food losses WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 2018 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture yesterday approved a waiver that will allow participants in the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in North Carolina to buy hot foods with their benefits through Oct. 31, 2018.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 17, 2018 – Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that USDA is investing $392 million to help rebuild and improve rural water and wastewater infrastructure in 42 states.
