News from June 2019
By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON, PA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Energy Transportation LLC and MW Logistics Services LLC for serious safety violations after a fatal fire at a natural gas processing plant in Houston, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago today announced that a Chicago-area physical therapy center and four nursing facilities have agreed to pay $9.7 million to resolve civil allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by providing unnecessary services to increase Medicare payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Fidel Herrera-Cruz, age 40, and a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to 5 months in jail for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on June 10, 2019, Perry Hicks (age: 32) of Corona, California, was sentenced to a term of eleven years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 846.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Melissa Barrett and Matthew Mullins Both Previously Pleaded Guilty to Meth Trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Attorney General William P. Barr today announced the formation of a Domestic Violence Working Group focused on using the tools of federal prosecution to prevent domestic violence by keeping guns out of the hands of convicted domestic abusers and those subject to a victim protective order.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) released the final installment of its video series spotlighting the site’s environmental research. This segment explores how OREM is funding technology development that will greatly influence future mercury cleanup.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety held a hearing on the nomination of William B. Kilbride to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Below is the hearing statement of EPW Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as submitted into the record...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Kimberley J. Mueller sentenced Emanuel Mois, 26, of Citrus Heights today to 24 years and four months in prison to be followed by a lifetime term of supervision, for receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,361,722 visitors to New River Gorge National River, Bluestone National Scenic River, and Gauley River National Recreation Area spent $60,371,000 in communities near the three parks in 2018. That spending supported 847 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economies of $69,987,000. The parks span four counties in southern West Virginia: Fayette, Nicholas, Raleigh, and Summers.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - An 18-year-old illegal alien from Mexico pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to transport illegal aliens from China and Brazil within the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a federal inmate pled guilty to a weapon charge. Joshua Allen, 29, pled guilty to being an inmate in possession of a weapon, admitting that on December 7, 2018, while he was an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Sharon E. Jackson, of Wellsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced on May 30, 2019 to two years probation for distributing drugs illegally, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representatives Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Michael McCaul (R-TX), the Committee’s Ranking Member today welcomed unanimous passage in the United States House of Representatives of their resolution calling on the Turkish government to cancel...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: Donald Glenn Beasley (“Beasley"), 56, of Key Largo, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge K. Michael Moore to 108 months in prison and 20 years of supervised release for receiving and possessing child pornography in connection with internet downloads Beasley made of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS, Montana - Reclamation's June forecast of the April through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn Basin is as follows...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: (June 10, 2019 - Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued the following statement on disaster and trade-related assistance: “Whether it’s because of natural disasters or unfair retaliatory tariffs, farmers across the country are facing significant challenges and tough decisions ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that it reached a settlement agreement with York County, South Carolina, under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The agreement resolves the Department’s lawsuit alleging that the county discriminated against an applicant on the basis of his disability, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: Canon Inc. and Toshiba Corporation have agreed to settle federal charges that the companies violated the premerger notification and waiting period requirements of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR Act), when Canon acquired Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation from Toshiba in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2019
News Release: A Tulsa man, who attempted to prevent the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from collecting more than $200,000 in taxes, penalties and interest he owed for 2005, and didn’t file tax returns for the years 2006 through 2012, despite earning commissions totaling nearly $5 million during these years, was sentenced ...
