News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Washington, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 240 months in prison for sex crimes, extortion and stalking - including asking a minor girl to produce explicit images of herself and threatening a second girl if she didn’t agree to meet and date him, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County man has been charged with possessing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Whitney Fire contained and regular operations resume at Cumberland Island National Seashore.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Special Event Programs: 50th Anniversary Celebration, Saturday Aug. 17, 2019, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (Fee Free!). Take part in a ceremony with keynote speakers, elected officials, and panel guests including people who lived here, people who fought to make a Monument, and people who worked here. Enjoy...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and other leading Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee today questioned the untimely release of the Department of the Interior’s update to the Bears Ears National Monument Management Plan (MMP), which comes in the wake of President Trump’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Antonio Rivera, 35, of Williamsville, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to wire fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Harold Luckett, 52, of the District of Columbia, plead guilty today for sexually assaulting a woman in November 2006, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 22-year-old Mexican national living in Laredo has been ordered deported following his conviction in a multi-agency, high-speed pursuit, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEFFREY L. BACON, 60, of Bristol, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with multiple child exploitation offenses.
By State Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on Chinese interference in Vietnamese-controlled waters...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today in response to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s announcement that EPA will not complete a second draft of its study for the national particulate matter standard, or reconstitute the disbanded subpanel on particulate pollution, despite concerns raised by the Agency’s own independent scientific advisors...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Columbus man was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 120 months in prison for stealing at least 35 vehicles and earning more than half a million dollars by selling their parts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Denver Police Department Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Oregon Police and FBI Looking for Missing 2-Year-Old After Parents Found Deceased.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today celebrated the continued public health and economic benefits of EPA's Diesel Emissions Reduction Act program, as outlined in EPA's Fourth Report to Congress on DERA's performance. Senator ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today in response to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s announcement that EPA will not complete a second draft of its study for the national particulate matter standard, or reconstitute the disbanded subpanel on particulate pollution, despite concerns raised by the Agency’s own independent scientific advisors...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael C. Mikulka, Special Agent-in-Charge, New York Region, U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General (“DOL-OIG"), Darren Cohen, New York Regional Director, U.S. Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: COPPER CENTER, AK - More rain is expected today as showers continue to move through the Copper River Basin area. An increase in rainfall expected for Friday. Recent precipitation across the south-central part of the state should moderate fire behavior. However, warmer and drier weather conditions forecast...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dracut man was convicted yesterday by a federal jury in Boston of sex trafficking four different victims out of his residences in Dracut and Malden.
By State Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a business meeting during which members approved one piece of legislation, one treaty, 13 nominees, and nine Foreign Service Officer lists.
