News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - An employee of PixarBio Corp., a Boston-based biotech company, pleaded guilty yesterday to securities fraud charges in connection with a scheme to defraud investors and manipulate the company’s shares.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Anthony Michael Cobb, age 49, of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania was sentenced on February 6, 2019, by United States District Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to 300 months’ imprisonment followed by a 6-year term of supervised release after his conviction on firearms possession and drug trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Al T. Hughes, age 60, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on February 7, 2019 before United States District Court Judge James M. Munley to tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Fled to Colorado and Was Arrested in the Rocky Mountain National Park Following the Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Joseph Demond Towers, 37, of Jackson, pled guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - To begin the process of replacing a 2.8-mile section of an overhead utility line on the Schoodic Peninsula within Acadia National Park staff will begin with vegetation removal under the lines on Monday February 11. This utility line supplies electricity, phone, and internet services...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A suburban Pittsburgh resident has been sentenced in federal court to 15 months’ imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $4,845.24 in restitution on her conviction of unlawfully distributing controlled substances and health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Nevada Salesman, His Domestic Partner, and Reno Businessman Indicted for Conspiring to Defraud the IRS.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Timpanogos Cave looking for input on a proposal for food trucks, with a Request for Expressions of Interest.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: A two-time felon who possessed multiple handguns and methamphetamine was sentenced today to ten years in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $30 million for new research using modern data science approaches to accelerate discovery in chemistry and materials sciences.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host two Artists in Residence this summer, one for the Dalton Highway and one for the Pinnell Mountain National Recreation Trail.
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Jim Risch (R-ID) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today announced subcommittee chairmen and membership assignments for the 116 th Congress.
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the Administration’s failure to meet the deadline to report to Congress on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714, Robert Huie (619) 546-7053 and Patrick Hovakimian (619) 546-9718.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: A winter storm warning has been issued for the southern Sierra Nevada starting Friday afternoon that will impact travel into and within Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Justice Department Files First of its Kind Action to Stop Tennessee Pharmacies’ Unlawful Dispensing of Opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: St. Louis - Richard McKinnon, 38, of St. Roberts, Missouri, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Thursday for theft of Government property. He appeared in federal court before U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was arrested today on a charge of aiming the beam of a laser pointer at an aircraft and at the flight path of an aircraft on Dec. 6, 2018, in Rockford.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced introduction of S. 420, the Marijuana Revenue and Regulation Act, legislation that would responsibly legalize, tax and regulate marijuana at the federal level.
