News from December 2019
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - An EM contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) is the recipient of an award presented by a regional commission for low-level radioactive waste management.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed two legislative packages that together comprise all 12 fiscal year 2020 funding bills. The packages, products of bipartisan, bicameral negotiations, now head to the Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Jaclyn Stahl (619) 546-8456.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
Release: Seven USDA-led Agricultural Trade Missions are scheduled for next year in continuing efforts to increase export opportunities. USDA Radio’s Rod Bain talks to Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney about the 2020 trade missions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The owner of a physical security school pleaded guilty today to defrauding a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program dedicated to rehabilitating military veterans with disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: An Iraqi national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Bangor to willfully failing to comply with the terms of release under supervision, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - A former South Texas school employee was sentenced to seven years in federal prison Dec. 17, 2019, for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Former Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas J. Spota and Christopher McPartland, the former Chief of Investigations and Chief of the Government Corruption Bureau of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office (SCDAO), were convicted today by a federal jury in Central Islip, New York, of all four...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Help us combat disaster fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Jovaun Patterson, 30, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania entered a plea of guilty before United States District Court Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg on charges of one count of attempted robbery which interferes with interstate commerce (known...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Victim Held in Trunk of Car During Kidnapping.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) made the following comments on the deal reached by lawmakers regarding temporary tax code provisions also known as “extenders.".
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to consider the nomination of Mr. Lanny Erdos to be Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) at the Department of the Interior.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man today admitted participating in a conspiracy to carry out a $3.5 million scheme to use bogus information and simultaneous loan applications at multiple banks to fraudulently obtain home equity lines of credit, a practice known as “shotgunning," U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released the following statement regarding critical health program funding included in the year-end appropriations package. Grassley and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) have been leading the charge to lower prescription drug prices in Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: MINEOLA, N.Y. - Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas, Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder and the Long Island Heroin Taskforce announced that 15 people, including three major traffickers, have been indicted for their alleged roles in a drug operation that spanned Nassau, Suffolk, Kings and Queens Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - One former resident of Verona, PA, has plead guilty to federal narcotics charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign helps educate GA pilots about safety, including Loss of Control (LOC), PowerPlant Failure, and Controlled Flight into Terrain (CFIT).
By USDA Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry Chair Abigail Spanberger of Virginia delivered the following statement at today's hearing to review access to conservation programs by Historically Underserved farmers and ranchers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Brandishing a Firearm during and in Relation to a Crime of Violence was sentenced on Dec. 16, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
