News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that PAUL GILENO...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - EM recently transferred ownership of more than 300,000 gallons of electrical insulating oil to the Paducah Area Community Reuse Organization (PACRO) from the Paducah Site’s C-533 Switchyard.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A former office manager for a Bluefield business was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for an embezzlement scheme and related tax felony charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Roseanna Coomes, 67, of Bluefield, West Virginia, previously pled guilty to executing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 3 years and one month (37 months) in prison on his conviction of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon and possession with intent to distribute a quantity of heroin, to run consecutively...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Wednesday, June 19, 2019, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, will convene a third hearing on the opioid epidemic, entitled “Medical Experts: Inadequate Federal Approach to Opioid Treatment and the Need to Expand Care."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Andre Hudson, 40, of Hartford, Connecticut, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court in Rutland, Vermont, to a total of 54 months in prison. Hudson previously pleaded guilty to possession of heroin and cocaine...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
Release: Washington, DC, June 18, 2019 - Children’s need for good nutrition does not end when school lets out for the summer. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is reminding the public about its commitment to help families keep children in low-income areas fed throughout the summer, so they can return to school ready to learn and succeed in the fall.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Federal agents arrested a Louisiana man and former member of the United States Navy stationed in Japan, relating to a 2004 sexual assault. The arrest was based on a two-count indictment returned Friday by a federal grand jury in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A 56-year-old resident of Galveston has been found guilty of receipt and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Victoria Duford, 27, formerly of Northwood, was sentenced to 43 months in prison for participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Grand Canyon National Park fire managers will initiate a prescribed fire treatment today, as weather and fuel moisture conditions allow. The Long Jim Prescribed Fire is adjacent to the developed area on the South Rim, east of South Entrance Road and south of Highway 64 (Desert View Drive) East.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today released the following statement on this morning’s report in Roll Call that senior political officials at the Department of the Interior are reviewing responses to Freedom of Information Act requests and in some cases directing staff not to include certain material.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - An inmate at a Massachusetts correctional facility pleaded guilty today federal court in Boston in connection with smuggling drugs into the facility.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Thirty years ago, Eric Mickelsen, then a young journeyman bricklayer, completed a radiation protection program course at a vocational-technical school where he was laying brick and was quickly hired as a junior radiological control technician at the Hanford Site.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, in a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, urged her colleagues to reject Matthew Kacsmaryk’s nomination to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, ...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Cleanup of the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) gained headway with the completion of demolition of the K-1037 Building recently - the largest and one of the most challenging facilities still standing there. Watch a video of the demolition here.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Terrel Edward Elliott, Jr., age 24, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 15 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for unlicensed dealing in firearms and for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. Elliott admitted that he was dealing in firearms less than two months after his release from prison for a first-degree assault conviction in Howard County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Law enforcement agencies across the state continue to make communities safer by partnering to reduce gun related crimes and violence. United States Attorney Peter E. Deegan, Jr. announced charges and arrests in thirty-two recent federal gun cases at a press conference held at the United States Attorney’s...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Thursday, June 20, 2019, Rep. Gerry Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, will hold a hearing to examine longstanding critical deficiencies at the Washington, D.C. Veterans Affairs Medical Center (DC VAMC).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Deandre LaJuan Jackson, 27, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 228 months in prison for carjacking and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. He appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White.
