News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: In Pecos today, a federal judge sentenced two former Presidio County officials-67-year-old Carlos Eduardo Nieto and 57-year-old Lorenzo Padilla Hernandez-to 30 months and 24 months imprisonment, respectively, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., El Paso Division.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 10:00 am in the John D. Dingell...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today the results of the February 2019 Federal Grand Jury.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, issued the following statement regarding the release of a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Inspector General report to evaluate whether the U.S. Forest Service effectively implemented initiatives to address the agency’s longstanding history of sexual misconduct.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a letter to U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Assistant Administrator David Ross made a clear and firm commitment that EPA will set an enforceable drinking water standard ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOHN FARCHIONE, a former manager at a public utility company, was sentenced last Friday to seven years in prison for fraud and identity theft offenses in connection with his theft of more than $6 million...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: Defendant Admits Causing Up To $3.5 Million In Losses To Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: United States Joins False Claims Act Lawsuit Against Arriva Medical LLC and Alere Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to four years and 10 months incarceration for his convictions of violating federal firearms laws and violating the terms of his supervised release, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: Tucson, Ariz. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) will announce a legislative push for a permanent moratorium on new mining claims near the Grand Canyon at a press conference this Saturday at Mather Point Amphitheater, located just east of Mather Point at the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. Grijalva will unveil the Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act, which he will formally introduce on Feb. 26, the one-hundred-year anniversary of the park’s establishment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man pled guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Curtis Traylor, also known as “Gurt," 51, entered a guilty plea to an indictment charging him with distribution of heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: DILLON, Mont. - Advancing the Trump Administration's priority of increasing public access to the American outdoors, the Bureau of Land Management has finalized the purchase of more than four miles of land along the Madison River for public use. The 307.57-acre purchase was completed using funding from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and lies 23 miles south of Ennis, Montana.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers with EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC) recently removed a radioactive wastewater structure at Hanford.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: On Feb. 14, 2019, Jose Antonio Morales, 33, of Fort Pierce, was convicted, by a federal jury in West Palm Beach, of being a felon unlawfully in possession of a firearm and possessing marijuana with the intent to distribute the controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Lachlan Olen Granite, a/k/a “Scott Edward Bounds," 54, of Center Ossipee, New Hampshire, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal, to 1½ years in prison and three years of supervised release for making false statements to the Social Security Administration (SSA). The defendant pled guilty on July 25, 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 15-count indictment charging Michael Margiotta, 48, of Rochester, NY, with wire fraud, money laundering, and filing a false tax return. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 26, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding a briefing from the company following a troubling consumer complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission that personal health information of certain Facebook users who were participating...
