News from January 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
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By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Doug Collins (R-GA) sent a letter to U.S. Attorney John W. Huber requesting an update on his investigation of the actions taken by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during 2016 and 2017, including the process by which they undertook to comply with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach naval officer was sentenced today to over four years in prison for his role in a $2.7 million procurement fraud scheme, and for lying on his federal income tax return.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK, NY - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Western Waterproofing Co. Inc. - doing business as Western Specialty Contractors - for exposing employees to serious injuries at a New York City construction worksite. The St. Louis, Missouri-based contractor faces $155,204 in proposed penalties.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Robert Pike, P.E., has been selected as the Bureau of Reclamation's Chief of Dam Safety. Pike will oversee the Dam Safety Program, which evaluates safety deficiencies and implements proactive solutions at dams across Reclamation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Hampton man was sentenced today to one year in prison for bribery.
By State Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement on the Democratic Republic of Congo’s election...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced up to $4.8 million in federal funding for research and development (R&D) projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0001991, University Training and Research for Fossil Energy Applications.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways & Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) issued the following statement after speaking on the phone this afternoon with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Five members of an international criminal organization known as the Rendon-Reyes Trafficking Organization (the “Organization") were sentenced last week in federal court in Brooklyn to prison terms of 15 to 25 years by United States District Court Judge Edward R. Korman. The amount to be...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach naval officer was sentenced today to over four years in prison for his role in a $2.7 million procurement fraud scheme, and for lying on his federal income tax return.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced it will award 189 grants totaling $33 million to 149 small businesses in 32 states. Funded through DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, today’s selections are for Phase I research and development.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Boyd Williamson, of Middlebourne, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 18 months incarceration for his involvement in methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin distribution that spanned multiple states, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By State Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement on the Guatemalan government’s effort to immediately close the United Nations International Commission on Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG)...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
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By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that federal charges were filed today against Everett Simpson, 41, formerly of St. Albans, Vermont for his involvement with the kidnapping of a New Hampshire woman over the weekend.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that federal charges were filed today against Everett Simpson, 41, formerly of St. Albans, Vermont for his involvement with the kidnapping of a New Hampshire woman over the weekend.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Senior Republican of the House Committee on Education and Labor, released the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families Office of Child Care announced the Preschool Development Birth Through Five (PDG B-5) Initial Grant awards...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
News Release: Fourth Defendant Sentenced For Role in Atlanta-Based Mexican Sex Trafficking Ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Five members of an international criminal organization known as the Rendon-Reyes Trafficking Organization (the “Organization") were sentenced last week in federal court in Brooklyn to prison terms of 15 to 25 years by United States District Court Judge Edward R. Korman. The amount to be...
