News from July 2019
By EPA Newswire | Jul 3, 2019
News Release: 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 hearing on Friday, July 12, at 9:30 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building on oversight of the federal government’s efforts to secure the electric grid from cybersecurity risks. The hearing is entitled, “Keeping The Lights On: Addressing Cyber Threats To The Grid."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2019
News Release: Eight people, most from Sandusky, were indicted in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to sell large amounts of heroin and cocaine in Sandusky.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2019
News Release: . St. Thomas, USVI - Freddy Montano Paz, 29, Calixto Tumbaco, 41, Mariano Abregon, 42, and Hector Hernandez Saucedo, 48, appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller for arraignment and detention hearings on charges of Conspiracy to Possess and Possession of a Controlled Substance on Board...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 3, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated five Missouri counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Holt and Ray counties who suffered losses caused by recent excessive rainfall and flooding may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Colorado man was sentenced in federal court today for traveling to Kansas City, Mo., to meet an undercover FBI agent, whom he believed to be a mother with her 7-year-old daughter, for illicit sexual activity.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 3, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Glacier National Park asks local residents to join an effort to record evidence of wildlife crossing over roads and rivers in the US Highway 2 corridor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Kyle Duran Smego, age 40, of Raleigh, North Carolina, pleaded guilty on July 2, 2019, to submitting false claims to the United States, specifically for inflating the number of hours he claimed to have worked on two government contracts.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 3, 2019
News Release: Today, several House committee and subcommittee chairpersons sent a letter to the Trump Administration urging it to rescind a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) requiring information about sponsors for migrant children be shared by HHS with DHS, where the information is then used to deport a child’s family...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 3, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho- The Bureau of Land Management Idaho Falls District transferred a surplus wildland fire engine to the Hamer Fire Department today, part of BLM’s effort to respond to rural wildland fires by giving excess equipment and supplies to local fire departments and Rangeland Fire Protection Associations.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 3, 2019
News Release: Today, several House committee and subcommittee chairpersons sent a letter to the Trump Administration urging it to rescind a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) requiring information about sponsors for migrant children be shared by HHS with DHS, where the information is then used to deport a child’s family...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2019
News Release: A 21-year-old man, of Oxon Hill, Maryland was charged in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in a seven-count indictment on Friday. The announcement was made by Jessie K. Liu, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), and Charles A. Dayoub, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Criminal Division, FBI Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ERIC ROBINSON, age 26, of New Orleans, has pleaded guilty Thursday, June 27, 2019 to federal firearms and narcotics violations.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 3, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after attorneys from the Department of Justice informed a federal judge that, contrary to their earlier assurances, they have now been ordered to examine whether the Trump Administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census consistent with the Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this week...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attorney General William P. Barr’s Advisory Subcommittee on Native American Issues (NAIS) convened during the U.S. Attorney’s National Conference in Washington, D.C., to discuss a wide range of justice issues affecting Indian Country, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores (OK-N), Chair, and U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme (MT), Vice Chair. U.S. Attorney Ron Parsons (SD), who heads the NAIS Law Enforcement Resources Working Group, was also in attendance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: A City of Cleveland employee pleaded guilty to charges related to extortion, accepting bribes and other crimes after he accepted below-market improvements on his property from a contractor seeking city business and directed city projects to benefit himself, his outside businesses, and his clients.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: When: 8:00pm: Junior Ranger Night Explorer Workshop- Children 5-12 can earn a special patch available only tonight! Call 314-655-1708 to reserve your childs place.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 29-year-old Corpus Christi resident has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Lorenzo Cervantes pleaded guilty Feb. 19, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - Four Houston men will serve the rest of their lives behind bars for the robbery and murder of an armored car guard and attempted robbery and murder of another, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management reminds claimants who wish to retain their existing mining claims on federal public lands through the 2020 assessment year to pay a maintenance fee or file a Maintenance Fee Waiver Certification (Small Miner’s Waiver) on or before Tuesday, Sept. 3, to prevent the mining claim from being declared forfeit and void.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: The Defendant’s Racketeering Acts Include the September 2016 Murder of Yunior Manion, 21, An Innocent Bystander.
