News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Robert Sciolino (51, Bradenton) to 10 years in federal prison for receipt and possession of child pornography. The court also ordered Sciolino to pay $57,000 in restitution to the victims and forfeit six electronic devices that he used in the commission of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Zakaryia Abdin, 20, of Ladson, South Carolina, was sentenced yesterday to 20 years to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Abdin previously entered a guilty plea in August of 2018 and has remained in federal custody since his arrest by the FBI in March of 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)’s Montana/Dakotas State Office today released the July 2019 Notice of Competitive oil and gas lease sale list, which includes 34 parcels totaling about 9,437 acres. The sale is scheduled to occur online at www.energynet.com starting on July 30, 2019.
By State Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Sens. Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), today hosted a roundtable discussion with Ivanka Trump, advisor to the president, on the U.S. strategy for implementation of The Women, Peace, and Security Act, which was authored by Sens. Shaheen and Capito and signed into law by President Trump in October 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: On Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 25 firefighters and natural resources staff from the National Park Service (NPS) and the U.S. Forest Service made history by conducting the first ever broadcast (wide area) prescribed fire at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore). After several years of planning and preparation, crews successfully burned 917 acres in the Platte Plains area of the National Lakeshore; the first in a planned series of such fires.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today introduced legislation creating a grant program for offshore wind energy job training. The Offshore ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Environment and Climate Change Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the two subcommittees will hold a joint hearing on Thursday, June 20, on the Trump Administration’s efforts to roll back Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards and carbon pollution regulations from light duty cars and trucks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Royce Aragon, 33, of Laguna Pueblo, N.M. was sentenced in federal court today to 18 months in prison for interference with interstate commerce by robbery and violence.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Critical Mission: Former Administrators Address the Direction of the EPA:"
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Homestead Days 2019 is coming soon! This will be the 40th anniversary of the annual event and we invite you to Homestead National Monument of America on Friday, June 21, 2019 through Sunday, June 23, 2019 to participate in this weekend full of free events!.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez sentenced today Edgar Ramirez, 36, a citizen of Mexico, to the time he has served in custody since March 11, 2019, and one year of supervised release, for falsely claiming United States citizenship, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. Judge Gomez also ordered Ramirez to pay a special assessment of $100.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The Department of Justice today announced the arrest of almost 1,700 suspected online child sex offenders during a two-month, nationwide operation conducted by Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces. The task forces identified 308 offenders who either produced child pornography or committed child sexual abuse, and 357 children who suffered recent, ongoing or historical sexual abuse or were exploited in the production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Timothy O’Connell, 52, of Drexel Hill, PA entered a plea of guilty before the Honorable Gerald J. Pappert on one count of receipt of child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced MARCUS ANTONIO BLANKS, 32, of Saint Pauls, North Carolina, to 168 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: The Chairman wishes to inform Members that the Committee on Finance will meet on Tuesday, June 18, 2019, at 10:15 a.m., in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building, to hear testimony on “The President’s 2019 Trade Policy Agenda and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Investors Duped by Claim that Company Owned Solar Farms in North Carolina.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is going high-tech in its battle against heat stress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Spencer Eugene Steckman, age 35, a Navy employee formerly of Silver Spring, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to the production, transportation, and possession of child pornography.
