News from March 2019
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways is hosting a river cleanup effort on March 30 with the Ozark Heritage Project. Come join us as we clean up along the Current and Jacks Fork rivers. Staff from Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Ozark Heritage Project, park concessioners, local chambers of commerce, area schools, youth groups, and volunteers will band together to tackle litter in the rivers and along the roads and accesses of the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Rudy Cook, 51, of St. Thomas, pleaded guilty in District Court before Judge Curtis V. Gomez, to two counts of calling in bomb threats, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - President Donald J. Trump has proposed a $2.7 billion budget for the National Park Service (NPS) in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, which includes funding that would help address the $11.9 billion maintenance backlog in the National Park System.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A federal judge today sentenced Great Falls resident Marcus Wayne Logan, 44, to 14 months in prison and to three years of supervised release for illegally possessing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HARBIR PARMAR pled guilty in White Plains federal court to kidnapping and wire fraud. PARMAR was arrested on Oct. 16, 2018, and pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Vincent L. Briccetti.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-A Missouri resident overheard on jail calls threatening to kill law enforcement officers and witnesses was sentenced today to federal prison for 10 years for possessing a firearm in Arkansas. Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced that multi-convicted felon Jimmy David McVay, 34, of Steele, Mo., was sentenced to the statutory maximum 120 months in prison for his illegal possession of a firearm in Blytheville in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: Received More Than $22,000 in Paid Military Leave & Benefits.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Alan S. Lowenthal (D-Calif.), Chair of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, sent a letter today to Acting Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt requesting information on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) safety and environmental...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Nine people have been charged with operating a heroin distribution ring in Schenectady, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Mkrtych “Mike" Sargsyan, 55, of Fair Oaks, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb to four years in prison for conspiring to sell stolen credit card information and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston man has been ordered to prison following his convictions of theft of government money and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with Special Agent in Charge D. Richard Goss of IRS - Criminal Investigation (CI).
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement in response to President Trump’s budget release.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: CENTRAL SIERRA NEVADA, Calif. March 11, 2019 - This is the sixth day of an intense multiagency search for missing Marine Corps 1st Lieutenant Matthew Kraft, a 24 year old man from Washington, Connecticut. 1st Lt. Kraft is 6’1" and 185 pounds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: Covidien to Pay Over $17 Million to The United States for Allegedly Providing Illegal Remuneration in the Form of Practice and Market Development Support to Physicians.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on today’s “skinny budget" released by the Trump administration. The plan proposes a roughly 14 percent cut for the Department of the Interior without providing specifics on how those cuts would be implemented.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: (March 11, 2019) - House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota released the following statement in response to release today of the White House’s FY2020 budget request, which calls for a 15 percent cut to USDA programs...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: SHEBOYGAN, WI - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Nemak USA Inc. - based in Sheboygan, Wisconsin - for exposing workers to metalworking fluids used on aluminum after three employees were diagnosed with occupational hypersensitivity pneumonitis, a debilitating lung disease. The company faces penalties of $26,520 for two serious health violations, the maximum penalty allowed by law.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Striking a blow against illegal gambling operators who profit behind a facade of good causes, U.S. Attorney Lawrence Keefe for the Northern District of Florida today announced that the owners/operators of Racetrack Bingo in Fort Walton Beach have been ordered to forfeit $5,813,584...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: Cumberland Gap National Historical Park Plans for Prescribed Fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On March 11, 2019, Brian Xavier Oliver, 26, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James A. Soto to 27 months’ imprisonment to be followed by a term of three years supervised release. Oliver previously pleaded guilty to assault of an intimate and dating partner by strangulation and assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
