News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today that on January 4, 2019, Lee Hueckstaedt, (age 32) of Rhinelander was sentenced in federal court to 72 months in prison for conspiring to distribute oxycodone and using a firearm in furtherance of that conspiracy. Hueckstaedt had previously pleaded guilty to both of those charges.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after President Donald Trump announced he would nominate David Bernhardt to be Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI).
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and committee ranking member Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), praised the committee's passage of S. 268, the Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver (WILD) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRANDON SPENCE, also known as “Spun," 31, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a loaded handgun.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, Qatar’s Minister of State for Energy Affairs, CEO and President of Qatar Petroleum, H.E. Saad Al-Kaabi, and ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Darren Woods announced that approximately $10 billion will be invested in the Golden Pass LNG terminal near Sabine Pass, Texas. Qatar Petroleum will invest more than $8 billion and ExxonMobil more than $2 billion in the project.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 10 am in 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building on the Department of Energy’s (DOE) delay of 16 appliance...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Randy Lee Donahue, Jr., and Lauren Hedges, both of Wheeling, West Virginia, were indicted by a federal grand today on drug charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: The Finance Committee meets this morning to organize for the 116th Congress, adopt committee rules, and vote on four nominations. First let me thank all our members for their interest in joining Finance Subcommittees. I’d note there will be more members on the Finance Subcommittee on Health Policy than on the entire Senate Judiciary Committee, which I take as a positive sign that there is no shortage of health policy wonks in this room.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota announced a full Committee meeting to consider organizational business for the 116th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: FBI Announces Results of Human Trafficking Operation for Super Bowl LIII.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Joseph McLaughlin entered a guilty plea to the felony offense of fraudulently obtaining Social Security Administration benefits, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. McLaughlin, 38, of St. Albans, West Virginia faces up to 5 years of incarceration when he is sentenced on...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: In honor of Black History Month, the Oak Ridge History Museum will be hosting “Atomic Integration," a photography exhibition focusing on African-American life during the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The exhibit will open on Friday, February 8, and will be open every Friday and Saturday during the month of February.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - For Ben Vannah, with the EM Richland Operations Office (RL), commitment to his job is all about the people and the environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to 40 months in federal prison for selling stolen guns to an undercover agent, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: INTERNTIONAL FALLS, MN: Voyageurs National Park staff seeks public comments regarding an Environmental Assessment to improve the facilities and add a hiking trail at the Mukooda Lake small campground in Voyageurs National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: FBI Announces the Arrest of an Alleged Serial Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Florence, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that James Latron Sumter, a/k/a “T", age 35, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has pled guilty in federal court to conspiring to distribute a quantity of cocaine and heroin, the use of which resulted in serious bodily injury or death. This charge potentially carries a mandatory sentence of 20 years to life in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: David Sommers pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to trafficking protected turtles. On July 10, 2018, a grand jury charged Sommers with smuggling a package containing diamondback terrapins to Canada and several Lacey Act offenses for mislabeling the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice filed an amicus brief today with the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit opposing a class action settlement that would provide consumers coupons worth only part of the price of a new pressure cooker, while awarding class counsel millions of dollars in attorney’s fees and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: The former treasurer of Jackson County, Kentucky, pleaded guilty today to devising a scheme to defraud the Jackson County Fiscal Court of over $160,000 and to misusing the identity of a Jackson County employee to facilitate her theft. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s ...
