News from June 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: House Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee Chairman Mike Thompson (D-CA) announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a Members’ Day Hearing focused on the recent changes made to the federal tax treatment of state and local taxes at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 25, 2019 in room 1100 Longworth House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Wichita business owner Brandon Steven pleaded guilty today to a federal gambling charge and agreed to forfeit more than $1 million, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. He was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Join park staff and visitors at Tumacácori National Historical Park to celebrate Día de San Juan on Monday, June 24, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Día de San Juan, a day to celebrate the birth of Saint John the Baptist, is also the day on which people all over Mexico welcome the summer season and celebrate the arrival of summer “monsoon" rains. This holiday is a great opportunity to enjoy a fun-filled day in the sun playing a variety of refreshing water games.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Defendant Who Conspired to Murder U.S. Soldiers Sentenced to 26 Years Imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Mediha Medy Salkicevic, a/k/a Medy Ummuluna, a/k/a Bosna Mexico, 39, was sentenced to 78 months in prison for conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Salkicevic appeared today before United States District Judge Catherine D. Perry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced that Andrew Wade Wyrrick, 24, of Owasso, was ordered to prison today for possession with intent to distribute marijuana and to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has found Terry Alonzo Wilson (53, Tampa) guilty of conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery, brandishing a firearm during a robbery, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Wilson faces a mandatory minimum penalty of seven years, up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for September 4, 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM recently awarded its Oak Ridge Site cleanup contractor $12.5 million for its performance from Oct. 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019, amounting to 95 percent of the available fee.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - For the third consecutive time, Hanford ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) has earned DOE’s highest certification for excellence in occupational and health protection.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Steve Weaver, age 35, of Harvey’s Lake, Pennsylvania, was indicted on June 6, 2019, by a federal grand jury for multiple counts of illegal firearms possession. The indictment remained under seal until Weaver was arrested by ATF agents on June 17, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has found Terry Alonzo Wilson (53, Tampa) guilty of conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery, brandishing a firearm during a robbery, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Wilson faces a mandatory minimum penalty of seven years, up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for September 4, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that three felons, prosecuted separately, have been sentenced to prison on gun possession charges. U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger presided over the sentencing hearings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ethan Guillen, 20, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to charges stemming from an incident in 2017 where he entered his former girlfriend’s home without permission and planted a bomb underneath her bed.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
Release: Today, METI, ENER and DOE affirmed their shared desire to strengthen trilateral cooperation on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: HOUGHTON, MICH. - Join a park ranger at a local beach this July and August to celebrate summer, shorelines, the Ranger III ferry, and the Keweenaw Peninsula’s long-standing connection to Isle Royale National Park.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following joint statement after the House passed H.R. 3253, the Empowering Beneficiaries, Ensuring Access, and Strengthening Accountability Act of 2019, by a vote of 371-46...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - A husband and wife, who along with several others trafficked large amounts of methamphetamine from California into Southwest Virginia, were sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Abingdon, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty pleas of LENNIE DWAYNE BROOKS, 33, and RANDY LORENZO BROOKS, 24, to three counts each of interference with commerce by robbery, known as the Hobbs Act. The defendants entered their guilty pleas today before Senior Judge David S. Doty ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: I am pleased to welcome our witness, Ambassador Lighthizer, and thank him for being here. We have been eager to have you before the committee for this very important annual hearing to discuss the President’s trade agenda.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Randall Keith Midkiff, age 37, of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced today after earlier pleading guilty to a count charging violation of 18 USC Section 2422(b), attempted enticement of a child.
