News from September 2018
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 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 the Senate passed the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that 45-year-old George Goodrie was sentenced to 38 months in prison, 2 years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided over the hearing.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Savannah, Ga. - Fort Pulaski National Monument reopened Monday, September 17 at 11 a.m. following Hurricane Florence. Park officials completed an assessment of the park’s facilities and resources on Sunday and found no damage. The national monument closed on September 13 in anticipation of tropical impacts from the slow-moving, powerful hurricane.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park is pleased to announce reopening on Saturday, Sept. 22 at 10 a.m., National Public Lands Day. Park visitors should anticipate heavy traffic, long lines and delays, and one third fewer parking spaces when visiting the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Quentin Scott, 30, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, was sentenced on Sept. 13, 2018, by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to 59 months in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms. Scott pleaded guilty to this charge on July 3, 2018.
By DOE 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: PROVIDENCE, RI - Two of three Pawtucket residents indicted by a federal grand jury for their participation in a conspiracy to traffic heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine have been sentenced to federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today that on Sept. 14, 2018, United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., sentenced Sherman Clemons, age 36, of Oakland, California, for his conviction for Credit Union Fraud. Clemons was sentenced to twenty-four months’ imprisonment, a five-year term of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $33,000.
By EPA 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 Homeland Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the daughter of a World War II veteran, today announced a new bill that would honor Arla Harrell-a Missouri World War II veteran intentionally exposed to mustard gas-by naming a Missouri post office for him. This proposal comes on the heels of new data from...
By EPA 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 USDA Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
Release: Washington, DC, 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 in North Carolina to buy hot foods with their benefits through Oct. 31, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: FBI and Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Issue Joint Statement on Human Trafficking.
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 DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Marco Bisa Hawkins Moran, 45, of Raymond, pled guilty Thursday before U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to a Criminal Information outlining his role in a more than $22 million dollar scheme to defraud TRICARE, the health care benefit program serving our nation’s military, veterans...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 17, 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 the Senate passed the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018.
By Commerce 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: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service will publish a final rule tomorrow in the Federal Register regarding the transportation of unloaded bows and crossbows. Individuals on foot or horseback no longer need to obtain a permit to carry unloaded bows and crossbows across National Park Service property. The new rule will take effect on Oct. 18, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced Friday, Sept. 14, 2018 three indictments of United States Postal Service employees. JACQUELINE M. BATISTE, a/k/a/ JACQUELINE BATISTE FRANCOIS (“BATISTE"), age 47, of Harvey, Louisiana, was indicted for Misappropriation of...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Donald Halmy, the Chief of the Peekskill Police Department, announced that...
