News from March 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Livestream links are now available for today’s hearing at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time and Thursday’s hearing at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released their 2019 High Risk List, an inventory of government operations vulnerable to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement. GAO updates the High Risk List every two years at the beginning of a new Congress to focus national attention on these critical areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: ****** MEDIA ADVISORY *******. CHARLOTTE, NC. - March 3-9 is National Consumer Protection Week. The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI will host a press conference on Thursday, March 7, 2019, to announce an initiative focusing on elder financial fraud. With financial scams targeting the elderly on the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for his role in a food stamps fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Ridgeview, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on March 5, 2019, by U.S. District Court Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: PENDLETON, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation will be increasing flows out of McKay Dam from 10 cubic feet per second (cfs) to 50 cfs into McKay Creek, beginning Thursday, March 7, 2019. McKay Creek flows through the neighborhoods of southwest Pendleton.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), chair of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, today sent a letter to Acting Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt requesting phone records for Scott Angelle, director of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - An inmate at Moshannon Valley Correctional Center in Philipsburg, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of possession of a prohibited object in prison, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Feb. 28, 2019, Gerald Pambianco, age 29, of Plains Township, Pennsylvania, and Derek Spaide, age 26, of Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to armed robbery of the Luzerne National Bank in Plains Township.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted six individuals for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. The indictment was returned under seal on Feb. 21, 2019, and unsealed today upon the arrest of the following defendants on March 5, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - An inmate at Moshannon Valley Correctional Center in Philipsburg, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of possession of a prohibited object in prison, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that partial summary judgment has been granted in favor of plaintiffs and the Government in a lawsuit brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA") by private plaintiffs (Bronx Independent Living...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD - LEILANI HILLIS, 60, of Rockford, the former director of operations of a Rockford non-profit organization, pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to one count of mail fraud and one count of tax fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Thomas Lawton Evans, Jr., 38, of Boiling Springs, South Carolina, was sentenced to three consecutive life terms in federal prison after pleading guilty to Kidnapping Involving a Person Under the Age of 18, Transportation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Web page, phone line, email address set up for victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Justice Department Files Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Against Owner and Manager of Rental Property in Dayton, Kentucky.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, helped lead a hearing on the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) 2019 High Risk List, a biennial report that identifies federal agencies and programs most vulnerable...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign helps educate GA pilots about the best practices to calculate and predict aircraft performance and to operate within established aircraft limitations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with ExxonMobil Oil Corporation (ExxonMobil) today to resolve federal Clean Air Act claims arising from a 2013 fire at the company’s oil refinery in Beaumont, Texas that killed two employees...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, joined a group of his colleagues to request all documents and communications related to the federal government’s interagency review of EPA’s February 2019 “PFAS Action Plan" and EPA’s long-awaited groundwater cleanup guidelines for toxic PFAS chemicals.
