News from January 2019
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: Update: The power was restored and the park opened to visitors on Saturday, January 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted in federal court for selling fentanyl and heroin last year that resulted in a fatal overdose.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) today released new legislation to reopen and fund most federal agencies through September 30. The legislation, H.R. 648, reflects bipartisan House-Senate conference agreements negotiated by Republican and Democratic appropriators in both chambers last year.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response the Trump Administration’s announcement of the proposed annual Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for the 2020...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: . Environmental Assessment Completed for Use of DOE-Owned High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium Stored at Idaho National Laboratory. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has determined that using DOE-owned high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) stored at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) will not have a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: Chief Judge Gregory K. Frizzell sentenced Stephanie Louise Montgomery, 49, of Claremore to ten months in Federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for providing False Information about Bombs in Schools. As part of the plea agreement, Montgomery will pay restitution in the amount of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: Chief Judge Gregory K. Frizzell sentenced Stephanie Louise Montgomery, 49, of Claremore to ten months in Federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for providing False Information about Bombs in Schools. As part of the plea agreement, Montgomery will pay restitution in the amount of...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chairman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today introduced the Save Oak Flat Act, which cancels a mandated land swap that threatens the sacred Apache Leap site in central Arizona with environmental damage from nearby high-risk copper mining. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is introducing a Senate companion. The House version is available online at.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: A Texas man was indicted for having one kilogram of fentanyl, three kilograms of heroin and three kilograms of cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: The House today approved a Continuing Resolution to reopen all federal agencies through February 28. The House has now passed eight bills to end the Trump Shutdown in the 116th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly and Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson announced today that Randy Kirby, 61, of Hastings, Nebraska, was sentenced Jan. 17, 2019, to a year and a day in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution of more than $130,000 by Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf in Lincoln, following Kirby’s plea to one count of Health Care Fraud. He will be on supervised release for three years following his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: A Maple Heights man was indicted on one count of attempting to provide material support to al Qaeda.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran became the chief federal law enforcement officer in the Western District of Washington today, following his confirmation by the U.S. Senate. U.S. Attorney Moran will lead the office of 76 attorneys and 67 professional staff dedicated to prosecuting federal criminal cases...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last night, Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) sent a letter to Department of Treasury (Treasury) Secretary Steven Mnuchin, inviting him to appear before the committee on Thursday, Jan. 24, at a hearing on the government shutdown’s impact on the Department of Treasury and American taxpayers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: “This tragedy is a heartbreaking reminder of the dangers all law enforcement face while we sleep. While they keep us safe. While they do the job. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the officers, the officer still fighting for life, and the fallen officer whose end of watch came much too soon.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: PLEA - Roberto Rodriguez Salinas. On Jan. 17, Robert Rodriguez Salinas, 38, of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine and conspiracy to launder money. Plea documents reveal Mr. Salinas...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: Springfield, MO - U.S. Marshal Mark S. James, Western District of Missouri, announces the arrest of seven Southwest Missouri fugitives on Wednesday, January 16th, all located in the Springfield area...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement in response to the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Inspector General report released yesterday that found GSA failed to analyze the terms of its lease agreement with Trump Post Office, LLC in violation of the Foreign Emoluments and Presidential Emoluments Clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Roman Harlan, 34, of Macy, Nebraska, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for assault with a dangerous weapon; strangling an intimate partner; and domestic abuse by a habitual offender. Chief United States District Court Judge John M. Gerrard...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Darus Zehrbach, of Westover, West Virginia, has admitted to making a false statement, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
