News from June 2019
By DOE Gazette | Jun 26, 2019
The US Energy Department published a two page proposed rule on June 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 26, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on June 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the United States (U.S.) and Argentine Minister of Transport Guillermo Dietrich have signed a Protocol of Amendment that modernizes the 1985 Air Transport Services Agreement between the United States and Argentina. Conclusion of the Protocol demonstrates the close and cooperative relationship between the governments of the United States and the Argentine Republic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Sentences. Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson sentenced JAMES MICHAEL FREY, 28, of Cheyenne, Wyoming on June 24, 2019 for access with intent to view child pornography. Frey was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He received forty-one months of imprisonment, to be followed by sixty months of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury yesterday issued a 135-count second superseding indictment charging a Fultondale doctor with 31 additional counts of dispensing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Hasan Chaney, 30, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to 312 months’ imprisonment (26 years), and Braheim Ballard, 39 of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to 155 months’ imprisonment (12 years, 9 months), both by U.S. District Judge Mitchell...
By State Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C.- Representatives Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Chairman, today welcomed the committee’s unanimous approval of the State Department Authorization Act (H.R. 3352). Upon Committee action, the members issued the following statements...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, the Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, and all Oversight Committee Democrats introduced the Covert Testing and Risk Mitigation Improvement Act of 2019 to establish standards for the covert testing processes the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) uses to evaluate its aviation security operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Former San Francisco Deputy Sheriff April Myres was convicted today by a federal jury of mail and wire fraud, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The guilty verdict followed an eight-day jury trial before the Honorable Richard Seeborg, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Greeneville, Tenn. - Mario Ambrosio Lewis, 34, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced on June 25, 2019, by the Honorable Leon Jordan, Senior U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 20 years in federal prison. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - After a three-week trial involving a total of 74 witnesses and more than 120 exhibits, a federal jury found five members of the Conservative Vice Lords Concrete Cartel criminal gang guilty of conspiracy to participate in racketeering activities, multiple armed pharmacy robberies, and drug trafficking conspiracy. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty verdict today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: As part of the annual Operation Dry Water campaign, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area will join in the nationally coordinated effort to educate boaters about the dangers of boating while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The mission of Operation Dry Water is to reduce the number of alcohol- and drug-related accidents and fatalities on the water.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved a slate of bipartisan measures by voice vote, including the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2019, Hazard Eligibility and Local Projects Act, Banning Smoking on Amtrak Act, and Small Airports Mothers’ Rooms Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr’s Advisory Subcommittee on Native American Issues (NAIS) convened this week during the U.S. Attorney’s National Conference in Washington, D.C., to discuss a wide range of justice issues affecting Indian Country, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores, Chair, and U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme, Vice Chair.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Norfolk, VA - U.S. Marshals, along with the Norfolk Fugitive Squad and Norfolk Police department, arrested a fugitive today in Portsmouth, Virginia, wanted in connection with a hit-and-run that left a mother and son dead in Oakland, California.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed H.R. 1225, the Restore Our Parks and Public Lands Act, legislation sponsored by Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and Representative Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) and garnering more than 290 bipartisan cosponsors. The bill passed Committee by a vote of 36-2.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that William Bernard Wright, a/k/a “Willie" Wright, a/k/a “Quentin Mitchell," age 31, of Gaffney, who has been accused of shooting a South Carolina Highway Patrolman on June 2, 2019, was charged in federal court in a one-count indictment for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent In Charge Grant Mendenhall in coordination with Fort Wayne Chief Steve Reed, Allen County Sheriff David Gladieux and Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug Carter announce charges in 8 indictments unsealed today.
By State Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. String:. At his appearance on Wednesday, June 20 before the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and International Terrorism, U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook was asked repeatedly about whether the Administration believes that it has...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Maleik Houseal, age 23, of Newberry, was sentenced to almost 6 ½ years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
