News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Victor Coleman a/k/a "Stone," 33, of Laurel, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 360 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Jere T. Miles with Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans. Coleman was also ordered to pay a $10,000 fine.

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: In the 20 townhalls I’ve held across my district, it seemed like inevitably someone would ask “can’t something be done about robocalls?" I share their frustration and remain committed to working with the Chairman to address these calls with action from Congress.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2020 bill.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Paul Bernard Jones, 59, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 70 months’ imprisonment on a federal bank robbery charge for a hold-up last summer in downtown Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Nancy McNamara, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Sedalia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and prescription opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Cameron, Mo., woman has been sentenced in federal court for her role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Bodmer Overlook will be closed from May 1-15, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced that it is seeking public nominations for positions on 31 Resource Advisory Councils (RACs) nationwide. These citizen-based committees assist in the development of recommendations that address public land management issues.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Chair of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the fiscal year 2020 budget requests for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education.

By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Mark French, director of the projects and facilities division at EM’s Richland Operations Office (RL), was named the 2018 Department on Energy Federal Project Director (FPD) of the Year at the 2019 DOE Project Management Workshop last week. It is the first time the award has gone to an FPD at Hanford.

By EPA Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: In the 20 townhalls I’ve held across my district, it seemed like inevitably someone would ask “can’t something be done about robocalls?" I share their frustration and remain committed to working with the Chairman to address these calls with action from Congress.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - The EM Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) prime contractor earned nearly $10.8 million, or 86 percent, of the available award fee for fiscal 2018, according to a recently released scorecard from EM’s Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO).

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Alexey Aguilera, 38, and Jorge Alberto Perez, 57, both of Miami, Florida, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Jere T. Miles with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.

By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2020 bill.

By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
Release: CHARLESTON, WV – Today, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette met with West Virginia Governor Jim Justice in Charleston, WV to discuss energy issues impacting the state. The Deputy Secretary noted the Administration’s support of a strong and vibrant West Virginia economy and the important economic potential from the state’s abundant energy resources.

By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Prescription Drug Coverage in the Medicare Program:"
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman caught selling heroin last year in Huntington pled guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Tonya Lynn Thompson, 36, entered a guilty plea to distributing heroin in federal court in Huntington. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the FBI Drug Task Force and the Cabell County Sheriff’s Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: CONCORD -United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Santos Guerrero Morillo, 39, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison for his leadership role in a heroin trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Stephen J. Taubert Threatened Congresswoman and Former President Obama.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), Chair of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the fiscal year 2020 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security.