News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Christopher Daniel Smith, of Elkins, West Virginia, was indicted today on drug and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment on Nov. 20, 2019, charging Anthony Boen, the current Sheriff of Franklin County, Arkansas, with federal civil rights offenses. Boen, age 49, is charged with three counts of deprivation of rights under color of law, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 242.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Louisiana resident and owner of a freight forwarding company, pleaded guilty on Dec. 16, 2019 in federal court in the Eastern District of Louisiana, on a charge of trafficking exotic birds protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO, Ill. - Today, the Chicago Police Department began receiving real-time intelligence on its local gun crime from ATF’s NIBIN National Correlation and Training Center located in Huntsville, Alabama, which enhances CPD’s already robust usage of the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network (NIBIN).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Who: Bureau of Reclamation and Friant Water Authority
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $145,452 civil penalty against the Sioux Gateway Airport for numerous alleged safety violations at the Iowa airfield.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: This week marks the second anniversary of the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that KAREEM DAVIS, a/k/a “Reem," a member of a violent, Bronx-based street gang known as “Killbrook," was convicted of the April 2011 murder of Bolivia Beck, as well as participating in a racketeering conspiracy. DAVIS was convicted following a one-week trial before U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Four former residents of Sinaloa, Mexico, and a former resident of Sonora, Mexico, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Robert A. Karmann, 53, of Clayton, pleaded guilty today to his participation in a massive fraud scheme involving a solar energy company in Benicia that defrauded investors of approximately $1 billion, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Office of River Protection for the performance evaluation period of Oct. 1, 2018 through Sept. 30, 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The first team of chemists is setting up shop at EM Hanford ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), marking another step toward startup of the Direct-Feed Low-Activity (DFLAW) system.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on health care provisions included in H.R. 1865, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on health care provisions included in H.R. 1865, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) applauded the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for issuing its proposed rule establishing emergency preparedness requirements for advanced nuclear technologies to account for smaller, safer nuclear reactor designs. Barrasso also congratulated the Tennessee Valley Authority for receiving NRC approval to site an advanced nuclear reactor.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Democratic House and Senate Committee leaders sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today reiterating their March 2019 request for information and documents concerning Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma’s lavish use of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds on private consultants who were brought on to polish her public image.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $55 million in funding for two programs to support the development of low-cost electric aviation engine technology and powertrain systems.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) sent a letter to Administrator Andrew Wheeler of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expressing his strong disapproval of the Trump Administration’s plans to move forward with rolling back protections for our Nation’s waterways-a clear and destructive priority of this Administration.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Good morning. Today we will consider the USMCA, a transformative agreement that creates a new highwater mark for U.S. trade deals moving forward. The implementing bill before us is the result of many months of negotiations between the House Democrats and Ambassador Lighthizer, and I’m very proud of the outcome we’ve reached.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: SENTENCING - NELSON PABON. On December 6, Nelson Pabon, 48, was sentenced to 16 years and 8 months in federal custody for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Pabon had informed undercover officers that because of his advance knowledge of canine sweeps of luggage, he was well-positioned...
