News from March 2019
By DOE 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: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Richard Boyle, 59, of Doylestown, PA was convicted today by a federal jury of 11 separate bank robberies, 10 counts of brandishing, using, and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence, and 10 counts of money laundering. The sentencing hearing is scheduled on July 15, 2019 before the Honorable Gene E.K. Pratter.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Andrew Mac Saunders, 43, and Ian David Bowman, 30, both of Fairbanks, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline, to federal identity theft charges.
By State Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) today released a statement following the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Furthering the Administration’s goals of restoring trust with local communities and responsibly developing America’s natural resources while easing regulatory burdens, the Bureau of Land Management today issued Records of Decision (RODs) amending land use plans for Greater Sage-Grouse habitat management on public lands, providing special protective measures for nearly 60 million acres of sagebrush steppe.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned this week before U.S. Magistrate judges and indictments handed down by the Grand Jury were unsealed. Indictments are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), issued the following statement reacting to the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM's) issuance of Records of Decision (RODs) for their amendments to the 2015 greater sage grouse conservation plans...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass-Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent Brian Carlstrom announces that the rehabilitation of Highland Light in Truro will commence in late summer or early fall, allowing national seashore education partner Eastern National to offer tours starting in April 2019 and in the months leading up to the start of construction. Initial plans called for the tower to be closed for the entire 2019 operating season, which runs from April to mid-October.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Plea Agreement Includes 180-Month Federal Prison Sentence.
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 Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON -Bureau of Reclamation's Director for Security, Safety and Law Enforcement Karen Knight has announced the selection of Scott Swanson as the Deputy Director for SSLE. Swanson will be responsible for internal planning and operations for the organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney John H. Durham, Special Agent in Charge Phillip Coyne of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong today announced that DR. BASSAM AWWA and his medical practice, CONNECTICUT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ASSOCIATES...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Defendant has prior convictions for rape of a child, indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, and a child pornography offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned this week before U.S. Magistrate judges and indictments handed down by the Grand Jury were unsealed. Indictments are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jibreel Williams, who was convicted of possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute, was sentenced to serve 41 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that WILLIAM TIERNEY was sentenced to two years in prison for conspiring to defraud tens of thousands of victims of more than $1 million in connection with political action committees falsely purporting...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - The owner of a debt collection company spent tens of thousands of dollars in an effort to corruptly influence and obtain business from court clerks in Florida and Illinois, including the Cook County Circuit Court Clerk, according to a federal indictment returned in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA -United States Attorney Bill Powell is applauding law enforcement efforts in 2018, as more than 275 kilos of illicit and dangerous drugs were taken off the streets in communities across the Northern District of West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Hashim J. McCullough, 37, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with attempted production of child pornography, and enticement of a minor. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of life, and $250,000.
