News from September 2018
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: HINES, Ore. - The next Steens Mountain Advisory Council meeting is set for Thursday and Friday, September 27 and 28, at the Frenchglen School, Highway 205 South, in Frenchglen, Oregon. The schedule for the two-day meeting is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday for a field tour on Steens Mountain, and 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday for a regular business session. The public is welcome to attend all portions of the meeting.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Pocatello, Idaho -Join us in celebrating your public lands during the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) National Public Lands Day volunteer event in Pocatello on Saturday, September 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: POCATELLO - Jamey Lynn Doshier, 34, of Pocatello, was sentenced last Wednesday to 42 months in prison for the theft of firearms from a federally licensed firearms dealer, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. His co-defendant, Anthony Robert Mariani, 42, also of Pocatello, was sentenced to 28 months...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: (MILES CITY, Mont.) - The BLM Glendive Short Pine OHV Area is the recent recipient of a new concrete loading ramp thanks to local and national organizations willing to partner with the bureau to invest in this popular off-road destination.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Sept. 17, 2018 - An illegal alien and MS-13 gang member from El Salvador was convicted today by a federal jury of using physical force to tamper with a witness; being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm; illegally re-entering the United States after previously being deported;...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Dr. RAMIL MANSOUROV, 49, of Darien, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to health care fraud and money laundering offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement in response to an announcement that President Donald Trump has directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice to immediately declassify materials related to the Russia investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Penn Hills, Pennsylvania resident pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of income tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Sept. 17, 2018 - An illegal alien and MS-13 gang member from El Salvador was convicted today by a federal jury of using physical force to tamper with a witness; being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm; illegally re-entering the United States after previously being deported; ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal jury in Bridgeport today found THOMAS J. CONNERTON, 66, of Stamford, guilty of numerous offenses stemming from an investment scheme that defrauded individuals, including several women he met on a dating website, of more than $2 million.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: WINNEMUCCA AND ELKO, Nev. - In the aftermath of Nevada’s largest wildfire in 2018, the Bureau of Land Management’s Winnemucca and Elko District Offices will begin an emergency wild horse gather on or about September 21 within the Owyhee Complex located in Humboldt and Elko Counties, Nevada. The Martin...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), committee member Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI), and committee member Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), along with Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI), today introduced the PFAS Federal Facility Accountability Act of 2018. This bipartisan legislation requires...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Johnny Wayne Harjo Jr., age 41, of Okemah, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Aggravated Sexual Abuse, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1153, 2241(a) and 2246, punishable...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Ranking Member Michael Capuano (D-MA) sent a bipartisan letter, signed by 27 Members of Congress, to Secretary of...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Jose Rivera, 58, former Branch Manager of TERMINIX INTERNATIONAL USVI, LLC (TERMINIX USVI), pleaded guilty today to four counts of an indictment charging violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) for illegally applying fumigants containing methyl bromide in multiple...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and #SubEnergy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement on the Labor-HHS appropriations bill, which includes critical funding for the landmark 21st Century Cures (Cures) Act and additional efforts to combat the opioid crisis.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In January 2018, the Bureau of Reclamation signed a Finding of No Significant Impact to acquire up to 8,863 acre-feet of water for the East Bear Creek Unit of the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge through Aug. 25, 2018. Reclamation has prepared a Finding of No Significant Impact extending the agreement through July 15, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: FBI Requests Public Assistance to Identify Imperial Valley Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Westmoreland County woman was sentenced today to six years in prison for possession with intent to distribute Oxymorphone, which she had obtained with a valid prescription.
