News published on Federal Newswire in April 2019

News from April 2019


News Release: Cover-up Story Unravels When Defendant Brags About Killing.


News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Social Security Fraud.


Carriage Roads Open to Foot Traffic Only

News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The carriage roads are open for people to enjoy the park for foot traffic only. Park rangers have removed barricades and opened up parking lots beginning on Tuesday April 30. The carriage roads are still too soft for bicycling or horses at this time.


News Release: A former resident of Fort Lauderdale, Florida was sentenced to over twelve years in prison and ordered to pay over $7 million in restitution for orchestrating an international property fraud scheme.


Oak Ridge Workers Prepare Centrifuge Complex for Demolition

News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Workers are preparing to tear down a complex that will help successfully complete the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management’s (OREM), an ambitious goal to finish all demolitions at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) by the end of 2020.


News Release: EM Assistant Secretary Anne White visited the cleanup program's New Mexico sites last week. Following is her report on the trip.


News Release: Defendant Arrested on Interstate 10 with 5 Kilos of Pure Meth.


News Release: Yosemite National Park is hosting a public meeting on Thursday, May 9, 2019 at the Groveland Community Hall (18720 Highway 120, Groveland, CA) to provide an update on two upcoming projects: the Big Oak Flat Welcome Center and the Tuolumne Meadows Parking Relocation Projects. Park staff will discuss implementation and operations for both projects, which will begin construction in 2020.


Nine Individuals Have Pleaded Guilty to Involvement in Staged Accidents

News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Richard Ronald Wells of Spokane, Washington pleaded guilty to multiple criminal charges in connection with his role in a conspiracy to defraud an insurance company by staging an automobile accident...


Foreign Emoluments: Victory for the Constitution and Holding President Trump Accountable

News Release: In a victory for Members of Congress, Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has now denied, in full, President Trump’s motion to dismiss the challenge brought by roughly 200 Members of the Senate and House of Representatives, to hold him accountable to the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause. On learning this news, the lead plaintiffs and their counsel issued the following statement...


News Release: St. Ambrose Catholic Parish Was a Victim of a Business Email Compromise Scheme.


News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers on the Hanford Site recently stabilized a waste storage tunnel at risk of collapsing.


Former District of Columbia Attorney Found Guilty of $2 Million Investment Fraud Scheme

News Release: Former District of Columbia Attorney Found Guilty of $2 Million Investment Fraud Scheme.


News Release: Pharmaceutical Company Agrees to Pay $17.5 Million to Resolve Allegations of Kickbacks to Medicare Patients and Physicians.


News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- The mountain lion known as P-47 was recently found dead in the Santa Monica Mountains, and lab results indicate he may have succumbed to poisoning from anticoagulant rodenticide, commonly known as rat poison.


News Release: The man who shot and wounded Tulsa Police Sgt. Mike Parsons during a traffic stop in July has been ordered to federal prison today, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.


Murray Opposes President Trump’s Pick to Head Agency Protecting Retirement Security of Millions, Hammers Republicans for Unprecedented Obstruction of Democratic Nominees

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, spoke on the Senate floor about her opposition to the nomination of Gordon Hartogensis to lead the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) ahead of the...


News Release: Deadline Reminder-May 1, 2019 FBI Richmond Hosts Third Youth Academy.


Drug User Who Illegally Possessed Gun Sent to Federal Prison

News Release: A man who illegally possessed a firearm was sentenced on April 29, 2019, to more than three years in federal prison.


Cummings, Nadler, Bass, and Booker Reintroduce the REDEEM Act

News Release: Washington, D.C. (April 30, 2019) - Today, Representatives Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform; Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary; and Karen Bass (D-CA), Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security; ...