News from February 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
Release: BOSTON- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is holding a one-day, “fast track" hiring event Saturday, March 9, to recruit full-time and part-time TSA officers to work at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS). TSA is looking to hire more than 50 full-time and part-time transportation security officers to work at the airport before the summer travel season. The goal is to have many of the new employees onboard ahead of the busy summer travel season.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 501, the Poison Center Network Enhancement Act of 2019, by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Giordano Jackson, 40, of Teesto, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to life imprisonment for the murder of the victim. Jackson was convicted at a jury trial in November 2018 on all charges, including first degree murder, two counts of assault with a dangerous...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - John Jackson, 30, appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller for a preliminary and detention hearing after his arrest on Saturday by Homeland Security Investigations for Production of Child Pornography, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. At this time Jackson remains in custody pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Armin Harcevic, 41, pled guilty today to an indictment in this case that charged him with one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and one count of providing material support to terrorists. Harcevic appeared today before Judge Catherine D. Perry who accepted his plea and set his sentencing for June 7, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Shayne Kniss, 43, formerly of Lake Oswego, Oregon, was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for defrauding clients of his investment firm, Iris Capital Management Group, LLC. Kniss was also ordered to pay more than $529,000 in restitution to his victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Roaring Springs, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of theft of government funds, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: ODESSA, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has renewed an alliance with West Texas Safety Training Center to help protect the safety and health of oil and gas workers involved in service, transmission, exploration, and production throughout West Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: A Mexican man who used another person’s social security number and a fraudulent “green card" to get a job was sentenced on Feb. 21, 2019 to five months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: New York Times Opinion (Published Feb. 22, 2019).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man caught selling fentanyl and methamphetamine last year in Huntington pled guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Brandon Scott Kidd, 39, entered a guilty plea to distributing fentanyl and methamphetamine in federal court in Huntington. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the FBI Drug Task Force and the Cabell County Sheriff’s Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Derek Whitfield, 36, of St. Louis, pled guilty to federal charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm; possession with intent to distribute fentanyl; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime. He appeared in federal court this afternoon before U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey who accepted his guilty plea and set sentencing for May 28, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 501, the Poison Center Network Enhancement Act of 2019, by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - A federal jury has convicted Jerry Drake Varnell, 24, of Sayre, Oklahoma, for attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction at BancFirst in downtown Oklahoma City, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC) sent a letter to Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) requesting that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein publicly testify before the Committee alongside...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-DE) have asked the Acting Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate whether EPA officials William Wehrum and David Harlow helped reverse the agency’s position in a major enforcement action to favor a client of their former law firm.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (D-Del.), spoke to an at-capacity crowd of students, scientists, environmental advocates and congressional staff about the urgent need for congressional action on climate change. The ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that the crime rates in Monroe have dropped in the wake of collaborative efforts to reduce violent crime.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: A project to replace the restroom facility at the Ocracoke Day Use Area was recently started by contractor APEX Construction, Inc. (Ocean City, MD). The new, fully accessible restroom facility is expected to be completed and reopened by mid-June 2019.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-DE) have asked the Acting Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate whether EPA officials William Wehrum and David Harlow helped reverse the agency’s position in a major enforcement action to favor a client of their former law firm.
