News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Clifton Burch and Peter McKean Convicted After Trial of Submitting False Bid for Construction of Lawrence Berkeley Lab Facility.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, announced that the Committee has rescheduled its public hearing with President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, in room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - The National Weather Service is predicting a heavy snowfall for Zion National Park and vicinity beginning Wednesday evening. A Winter Storm Warning has been issued from noon on Wednesday through 4:00 p.m. Friday. 6 to 24 inches are expected. Higher elevations will be hit hardest.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced the first members of his Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB). Today’s announcement is the first of multiple installments of the board.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Michigan resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Michael Shawn Mayberry, age 24, of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment, and 3 years of supervised release for Assault With A Dangerous Weapon In Indian Country, in violation...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building, on the current measles outbreak and response efforts. The hearing is entitled, “Confronting a Growing Public Health Threat: Measles Outbreaks in the U.S."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ernest Clayburn Cauley, Jr., 27, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a fine of $5,000,000.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
Release: KAHULUI, Hawaii - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is holding a one-day recruitment and hiring event Saturday, Feb. 23, on Maui to recruit full- and part-time Transportation Security Officers to work at Kahului Airport (OGG). Starting pay is $21.82 per hour, with opportunities for pay increases after six months.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos: We are writing to request information about troubling actions by the Department of Education with regard to the Office of Inspector General (OIG). Last month, Acting Inspector General Sandra D. Bruce was suddenly replaced with Deputy General Counsel Philip H. Rosenfelt. The decision...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on the Blue Collar to Green Collar Jobs Development Act of 2019, on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The legislative hearing is entitled “Clean Energy Infrastructure and the Workforce to Build It."
By USDA Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 20, 2019-An exciting collaboration between the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA ) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Pheronym (Alachua, FL), will send nematodes (small round worms) into space to the International Space Station (ISS ). The mission represents a look into the future where food crops will be grown in space.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell man was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Congressman...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, S.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge David C. Norton sentenced the former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Berkeley County School District, Brantley Denmark Thomas, III, to 63 months in prison on charges of embezzlement, money laundering, and public corruption, announced the U.S. Attorney’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found Eddy Pena, 30, of Providence, R.I., guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Andres Garcia-Mora, 32, of Mexico, pleaded guilty today before Chief Judge Maurice Hicks Jr. to one count of re-entry of a removed alien, U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell man was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Fray Cayetano, 23, of Lawrence, Massachusetts was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to 69 months in prison and three years of supervised release for distributing fentanyl and conspiring to distribute fentanyl and cocaine base, commonly known as, “crack." Cayetano pled guilty on Oct. 17, 2018.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the 12 collegiate teams selected to participate in the 2020 Collegiate Wind Competition. Three new schools have been selected along with nine returning teams from previous competitions. The colleges and universities selected to participate in the Collegiate Wind Competition 2020 are...
