News from June 2019
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2019
News Release: Pecos, NM: - Step back in time with Matt Lewis on July 13th and 14th. Matt will demonstrate the techniques involved in manufacturing stone tools and projectile points that would have been in use among the inhabitants of Pecos Pueblo as well as the Apache and other Native American groups in the American...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) had the following prepared remarks today at a joint Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Driving in Reverse: The Administration’s Rollback of Fuel Economy and Clean Car Standards:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2019
News Release: HELENA-A Helena man who admitted receiving child pornography was sentenced today to 121 months in prison and to a lifetime of supervised release, said U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2019
News Release: Beginning at 5 a.m. Thursday, June 27 through 7 p.m. the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Parking Area and Visitor Center in Rocky Mountain National Park will be closed to all uses for a pavement preservation project. Visitors entering the park from the east side on June 27, are encouraged to visit the Fall River Visitor Center that day.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Donnie Smith, 40, Abid Stevens, 39, and Maurice Quinn, 41, all of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania were charged by indictment with committing a Hobbs Act Robbery and carrying and using a firearm during the commission of a federal crime. Smith was also separately charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On June 17, 2019, Dana Louis Mattingly, 58, of Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James A. Soto to life in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Ashley Grossman, age 30, of Baltimore to 135 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine in the German Park area in Baltimore’s Central District. The sentence was imposed on June 19, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Jose Toscano-Ruelas, 43, a foreign national, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm, and being a deported alien found in the United States, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing on “Strengthening Health Care in the U.S. Territories for Today and Into the Future."
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) unveiled a bipartisan version of the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act (HR 3375) in the House of Representatives to stop abusive robocall practices.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that REDHWAN SALEH was sentenced to 63 months in prison for his participation in an arson in the Bronx, New York. SALEH was convicted following a four-day trial before the Honorable William H. Pauley III, who imposed today’s sentence.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) unveiled bipartisan legislation, the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act to stop illegal robocall practices.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee unveiled 13 bills to improve the Health Profession Opportunity Grant (HPOG) program, which supports education and training to low-income individuals to help them move into occupations in the healthcare field that pay well and are expected...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Defendant faces up to 30 years in federal prison and up to life on federal supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that James Felton was found guilty of the June 11, 2016, murder of Marvin Harris, whom Felton shot 13 times, as well as the Dec. 11, 2016, murder of Jose Morales, whom Felton shot in the head. Felton...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: MACON - Hundreds of free firearm locking devices are available for citizens, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia and Jones County Sheriff R.N. “Butch" Reece. U.S. Attorney Peeler and Sheriff Reese made the joint announcement Wednesday, a week...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Grand Canyon National Park fire managers continue to treat the Long Jim Prescribed Fire unit, as weather and fuel moisture conditions allow. On Tuesday, June 18, 2019, crews successfully treated 180 acres. "The success of this burn will increase visitor safety and improve forest ecology for years to come," said Burn Boss Mike Lewelling.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The former executive assistant of a Waltham-based technology company was arrested today and charged in connection with a fraud and embezzlement scheme that netted over $3 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Natchez, Miss. - Kellie Fuqua, 57, of Roxie, Mississippi, and a former corrections counselor at the Adams County Correctional Center, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge David Bramlette III to accepting bribes from federal prisoners in exchange for introducing contraband into the facility, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and James Boyersmith, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General Miami Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON -Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced details of the annual Independence Day celebration on the National Mall, including Salute to America, which will feature remarks by President Donald J. Trump to honor America’s armed forces.
