News from March 2019
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - At the Hanford Site, waste retrieval has been completed in 17 of 149 large concrete underground single-shell tanks (SSTs). The tanks were constructed of carbon steel and reinforced concrete between 1943 and 1964 to store a radioactive mix of sludge and saltcake waste from nuclear processing activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned a 21-count indictment today charging LEON C. VACCARELLI, 42, of Waterbury, with fraud and money laundering offenses stemming from an investment scheme that defrauded individuals of more than $1 million.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-CA), Chair of the House Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee, sent two letters today to Secretary of Education...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that OSHANE ELLIS, 26, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing two loaded firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice has reached a settlement of its civil forfeiture case against assets owned by Hikmatullah Shadman that he wrongfully acquired as a government contractor in Afghanistan. Under the terms of the settlement, approximately $25 million will be forfeited to the United States. The civil settlement is part of a global settlement that involved the resolution of a criminal case and False Claims Act allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: HELENA-WEST HELENA-The United States Marshals Service announced today an arrest operation targeting violence in the Delta. Operation “Press Your Luck" began this morning in Helena-West Helena, resulting in multiple cooperating law enforcement agencies arresting 44 suspects thus far in an ongoing investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the conviction yesterday of ROBERT MERLO, a New Jersey-based insurance...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Malden man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud his employer, a large facilities services company with offices in the Greater Boston area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Defendant later Cut Electronic Monitoring Bracelet and Fled from Court Supervision.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford, Ill., man, ALVIN J. MALONE, 31, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Rockford for illegally possessing firearms as a convicted felon. The indictment alleges that on Feb. 19, 2019, Malone illegally possessed a loaded 12 gauge shotgun, a.22 caliber rifle, and a loaded.45 semi-automatic pistol.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today the issuance of a long-term order authorizing the export of domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Venture Global Calcasieu Pass, LLC (Calcasieu Pass) from an LNG export project site being built in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: MACON - Two former bank tellers were sentenced today to prison and ordered to pay more than $1.6 million dollars to the institution they defrauded, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Vicky Martin, 60, of Buckhead (Morgan County), and Brandy Mize...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: HELENA-WEST HELENA-The United States Marshals Service announced today an arrest operation targeting violence in the Delta. Operation “Press Your Luck" began this morning in Helena-West Helena, resulting in multiple cooperating law enforcement agencies arresting 44 suspects thus far in an ongoing investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-Christopher Adam Strahan, 33, of Corvallis, Oregon, pleaded guilty today to threatening a campus shooting and was sentenced to time served in federal prison and three years’ supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Air Cargo skids and pallets take up a large amount of space on every commercial passenger flight. Federal law requires this cargo be screened at the same level as checked baggage. Single and dual energy X-ray systems can be scaled up to screen air cargo skids, but they produce two-dimensional views of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Miguel Merecias-Lopez, 24, of Woodburn, Oregon, pleaded guilty today to one count each of conspiracy to produce false identification documents and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD - ALVIN J. MALONE, 31, of Rockford, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Rockford for illegally possessing firearms as a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: BISHOP, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Bishop Field Office and U.S. Forest Service Inyo National Forest have submitted to the California State Parks Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation (OHMVR) preliminary applications for grant funds to enhance and manage motorized recreation. The agencies invite public comments on the preliminary grant applications now until May 6.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation invites public review and comment on a draft Environmental Assessment titled, Implementation of Klamath Project Operating Procedures 2019-2024. The draft evaluates the proposed action for the Biological Assessment that was transmitted to the National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Dec.21, 2018, as modified on Feb. 15, 2019. The 2018 BA can be referenced at www.usbr.gov/mp/kbao
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Yosemite National Park announces that the 2019 preseason lottery for Half Dome permits will open at 7:00 am PDT on Wednesday, March 13, 2019. For the latest information on the Half Dome preseason lottery, please visit.
