News from March 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Washington Post . Glenn Kessler. March 15, 2019. “Democrats have claimed [President Trump] wants to cut $800 billion to $850 billion.". “…it’s a misleading figure. Trump is proposing to move two parts of Medicare - payments to hospitals that treat many patients without insurance and payments to hospitals...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Environmental Protection Agency releasing its final rule regulating methylene chloride, a toxic chemical commonly used as a paint stripper...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: A Cleveland woman was sentenced to three months in prison for making a straw purchase of two firearms that were purchased with money from a robbery and used in additional violent crimes.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: TWIN FALLS, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Burley Field Office announced today that it will extend the South Hills area seasonal road closure, which began on Jan. 15, until driving conditions improve. Wet weather throughout February and early March has saturated roadbeds, making the roads...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Federal Jury Found Harrison Participated in Five Murders and a Gun Recovered From Broughton Was Used in Four of those Murders.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: (LEWISTOWN, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is planning to conduct two prescribed fires this spring in north central Montana.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Patrick Monahan, 52, of Old Town, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 35 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for sexual exploitation of children, and distribution and possession of child pornography. The defendant pled guilty to these charges on Sept. 10, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Concord - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that nine individuals have been charged with participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy. The indictments are the culmination of a year-long investigation by the FBI in coordination with federal, state, and local authorities in New Hampshire.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Patrick Ogiony, 35, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to conspiracy to commit bank fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), released the following statement reacting to EPA's final rule banning consumer uses of methylene chloride but allowing its continued use in commercial settings...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A local businessman was sentenced today to 2 1/2 years in prison for orchestrating a $1.3 million Ponzi scheme that caused losses to more than 40 victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Mack Allen Bradley, 49, of Lucedale, Mississippi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Halil Sul Ozerden to 108 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Christopher Freeze, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
Release: HOUSTON, TEXAS – On Thursday, Mar. 14, 2019 key officials from the U.S., Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, including Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, Minister of Energy Kadri Simson of Estonia, State Secretary Eriks Egilitis of Latvia, and Minister of Energy Zygimantas Vaiciunas of Lithuania, met on the sidelines of the 1st Ministerial of the Partnership for Transatlantic Energy Cooperation (P-TEC) in Houston, Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa joined Senators Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Mike Lee of Utah and Dick Durbin of Illinois in reintroducing legislation to increase competition in the pharmaceutical industry and lower prices for consumers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey D. Hill (619) 546-7924.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), and U.S. Representative Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, today announced a Government Accountability Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Defendant and Accomplice Carjacked One of the Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart issued the following statement.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Environmental Protection Agency releasing its final rule regulating methylene chloride, a toxic chemical commonly used as a paint stripper...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA - A former U.S. Air Force service member on March 14 admitted to charges accusing him of enticing minor boys in Montana he met online into sending him sexually explicit images of themselves, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
