News from September 2018
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) decision to grant authority over uranium recovery activities to the state of Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Roberto Paul Mendoza, 28, of Palm Beach County, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks to 240 months in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release, after previously pleading guilty to three counts of distribution of heroin, carfentanyl, and cocaine, one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin, and one count of knowingly possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed four bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee bills that will modernize our nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve and address key challenges facing America’s nuclear energy industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Defendant caught in back seat of car with drugs and a firearm while on parole.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Redwood National and State Parks, Save the Redwoods League, and Redwood Parks Conservancy are hosting Stand for the Redwoods Festival in Orick, Calif., on Sunday, October 7, 2018, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - David Prejean, a former Sergeant in the K-9 Unit of the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office (IPSO), was sentenced Monday to serve 30 months in prison and one year supervised release on his guilty plea to violating the civil rights of a detainee, announced David C. Joseph, the U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Brent Hercules, a/k/a “Herc," 32, of Rochester, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Senior Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 87 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack.".
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement on the Senate confirmation of Peter Feldman to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today the sentencing of four local physicians, a biller, and office manager following a four week trial that ended on May 9, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders from committees of jurisdiction in both the House and Senate today announced an agreement on sweeping legislation to combat the opioid crisis. In June, the House passed H.R. 6, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act by a vote of 396-14. On September 17th, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Charlotte Man Convicted of Conspiracy to Defraud the Government.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved the Hatch-Goodlatte Music Modernization Act (H.R. 1551), bipartisan legislation that updates several key provisions of U.S. copyright law regarding music licensing. This consensus legislation is a product of the House Judiciary Committee’s comprehensive copyright ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Troy Tavares pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Joanna Seybert to armed bank robbery and a firearms possession charge related to his role as the getaway driver in the gunpoint robbery of the Bridgehampton Savings Bank in Hewlett, New York. When sentenced, Tavares faces up to 25 years’ imprisonment for the bank robbery and a minimum of seven years’ imprisonment and up to life in prison for the firearms charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: A superseding indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Queens-based criminal defense attorney John Scarpa, Jr., and Charles Gallman, also known as “T.A.," with violating the Travel Act by bribing a witness who testified in a double-homicide trial in Suffolk County Supreme Court.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Former teacher Yaira Tanies Cotto-Flores was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison followed by eight years of supervised release for transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual conduct. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) conducted the investigation that led to the arrest and subsequent conviction of Cotto-Flores.
By State Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding President Trump’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Mushtak Al Mosaadi, a/k/a Mo, 47, and Omran Al-Khazraji, a/k/a Omarwas, 47, with conspiracy to damage and destroy a building used in interstate commerce by fire, and damaging...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. the Department of Energy (DOE) released a $5.8 million funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to support the research and development (R&D) of advanced tools and controls that will improve the resilience and reliability of the nation’s power grid. Under this FOA, DOE’s...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today requested additional information on costs incurred by New Century Consulting (NCC)-a contractor that McCaskill’s previous efforts revealed had left taxpayers on the hook for over $50 million in questionable costs, including seven luxury vehicles and exorbitant salaries for significant others of corporate executives.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Grandview, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
