News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, PA - A resident of DuBois, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a list of 40 chemicals that it will consider for risk evaluations, a requirement under the 2016 Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Connecticut little league vice president and coach arrested by members of the Rhode Island State Police Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force on Jan. 25, 2019, and charged in Rhode Island state court with indecent solicitation of a child and with disseminating and possessing...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A previously deported Mexican man pleaded guilty Wednesday to unlawfully re-entering the U.S., and to transporting illegal aliens in the United States.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wrote to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today asking how it would use additional resources to protect consumer privacy and increase data security...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Nicholle Knotts, of Philippi, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. - Fifteen students and two faculty from the University of Northern Iowa, along with a NASA scientist, spent their spring break in the depths of Wind Cave as part of a simulated astrobiological field expedition.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-DE) are raising new questions about whether Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials William Wehrum and David Harlow helped to...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man pleaded guilty yesterday to producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced DeAndre Spencer, age 27, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 12 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for committing an armed carjacking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: The inventor of cryptocurrency AriseCoin pleaded guilty today to duping investors out of more than $4 million, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Delshawn K. Trueheart, 43, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession of child pornography. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: CLEVELAND - On Monday, March 18, and Tuesday, March 19, 2019, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Federation of State Medical Boards hosted two regional one-day Practitioner Diversion Awareness Conferences.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: “Votes for Women: How Culture Impacted the Nebraska Women’s Suffrage Movement" Hannah Earnhardt Speaks at Homestead National Monument of America.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, J. Russell George, U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, Office of Investigations (“TIGTA"), and Brian M. Hickey, Director, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Office of Internal Affairs...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
Release: Washington, DC, March 19, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in coordination with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), invites the public to register to attend the first meeting of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. The meeting will be held at USDA headquarters...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - On March 19, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, unlawfully present in the United States, was sentenced to 80 months’ imprisonment and a four-year term of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for leading a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Jasper County, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: A Louisiana-based licensed clinical social worker pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicaid.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) has long been able to meet all its summer seasonal housing needs with its own stock of government-owned quarters. In 2019, for the first time, the park needs additional short-term housing for its seasonal workforce of park rangers, guides, maintenance workers, interns, and biological technicians.
