News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - An indictment unsealed today charges Xiaoqing Zheng, age 56, of Niskayuna, New York, and Zhaoxi Zhang, age 47, of Liaoning Province, China, with economic espionage and conspiring to steal General Electric’s (GE’s) trade secrets surrounding turbine technologies, knowing and intending that...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Secretly Exposed Foreign Workers to Mercury Waste to Increase Corporate Profits and Enrich Themselves.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Saugus man was arrested and charged today on drug and firearm offenses.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee Leaders wrote today to Google CEO Sundar Pichai expressing their concern about reports of a massive database of precise location information on hundreds of millions of consumers, known inside Google as “Sensorvault, " and requesting a briefing and answers on how this information is used both inside and outside the company.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two Trenton police officers have been charged with civil rights and obstruction of justice charges for allegedly assaulting a man they were arresting, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that KEndal J. Harris, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 54 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Harris pleaded guilty to this charge on Jan. 3, 2019. His prison term will be followed by a three-year period of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, April 30, at 10:30 am in 2322 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Prescription Drug Coverage in the Medicare Program."
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Currently, the Big Ledge Mine area encompasses approximately 122 acres of ground disturbance on split estate land. The proposed action includes expanding the Plan boundary by 15.4 acres and increasing the disturbance by 15.8 acres on split estate land for the catchment basin and the regrading of the west WRF. The proposed action will add 15.8 acres, increasing total disturbance to approximately 138 acres.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - Forrest Queen has advanced his career quickly, going from Washington State University graduate to ventilation engineering manager at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in just four years.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court in Johnstown to charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, April 30, at 10:30 am in 2322 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Prescription Drug Coverage in the Medicare Program."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Former GE Engineer and Chinese Businessman Charged with Economic Espionage and Theft of GE’s Trade Secrets.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - With robust public participation over the course of 16 prior events, the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative continues to remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to misuse, theft or abuse by family members...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A St. Joseph, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm following an 11-hour standoff with law enforcement officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - With robust public participation over the course of 16 prior events, the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative continues to remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to misuse, theft or abuse by family members...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee Leaders wrote today to Google CEO Sundar Pichai expressing their concern about reports of a massive database of precise location information on hundreds of millions of consumers, known inside Google as “Sensorvault, " and requesting a briefing and answers on how this information is used both inside and outside the company.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee Leaders wrote today to Google CEO Sundar Pichai expressing their concern about reports of a massive database of precise location information on hundreds of millions of consumers, known inside Google as “Sensorvault," and requesting a briefing and answers on how this information is used both inside and outside the company.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Michael A. Deshong (619) 546-9290.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Terry Mills, Jr., 21, of Leakesville, Mississippi, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to 49 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces the arrest after a federal grand jury sitting in Raleigh previously returned an indictment charging FURMAN ALEXANDER FORD, 49, of Raleigh with eleven counts each of Mail Fraud and Wire Fraud.
