News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of JAYVON DOMINIQUE GANT, 28, to eight years in prison for bank robbery. GANT, who pleaded guilty on Aug. 20, 2018, was sentenced today before Judge Joan N. Ericksen in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Jesus Humberto Barrera Estrada, 20, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was sentenced by United States District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 60 months in federal prison followed by six years of supervised release. On Jan. 14, 2019, Corey Webster Newkirk, 22, of Tempe, Ariz., was sentenced to 78 months...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Member...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Juan Pablo Sanchez-Delgado, 40, of Mexico, entered a plea of guilty today to conspiring to harbor aliens. The guilty plea was entered in Lincoln, Nebraska, before United States Magistrate Judge Cheryl R. Zwart. Sentencing was scheduled before Chief Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: A man who illegally returned to the United States after being twice deported was sentenced today to almost four months in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John B. Larson (D-CT) announced today that the Subcommittee is beginning a hearing series on “Protecting and Improving Social Security." The first hearing in the series, “Protecting and Improving Social Security: Enhancing Social Security to Strengthen the Middle Class," will take place on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, at 10:00 AM, in room 2020 Rayburn House Office Building.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - Steamtown National Historic Site (NHS) celebrates Women’s History Month with free special programs beginning at Noon and 2:00 pm on Friday and Saturday, March 15-16, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Robert S. Khuzami, the Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced today that former Adidas director of global sports marketing for basketball, JAMES GATTO, a/k/a “Jim," was sentenced to nine months in prison, former Adidas consultant MERL CODE was sentenced...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
Release: Washington -FAS Program Announcement FAS-ESR-011-19, issued at 9:00am on February 28th, which announced export sales of 133,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to South Korea during the 2018/2019 marketing year was issued in error. The correct announcement is as follows.
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 Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa today announced that the committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, March 12, 2019 with testimony from U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer assessing the current state of the World Trade Organization (WTO) nearly 25 years after its creation and potential reforms that would strengthen the institution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Fake Bills.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - For the third consecutive year, the Columbia River Basin Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI) recently honored a Hanford project at its annual awards gala. EM’s Richland Operations Office (RL) endorsed the winning entry.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) was recently recognized for its efforts in championing personal safety across the company.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Representative Don Young (R-AK), and Representative John Katko (R-NY) introduced the bipartisan Water Quality Protection and Job Creation Act of 2019 to address America’s crumbling wastewater infrastructure and local water quality challenges.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Tucson, AZ - A six year old boy was bitten by a dog on the Douglas Spring Trail on Sunday, March 3 at approximately 4:00pm. National Park Service staff is attempting to locate and identify the dog and the dog’s owners.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, along with Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO), introduced H.R. 1494, the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Homeland Security Partnerships Act, which would strengthen the partnerships between HBCUs and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on restoring net neutrality protections on Tuesday, March 12, at 10:00 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing will be entitled, “Legislating to Safeguard the Free and Open Internet."
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) sent a letter to Energy and Commerce...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Madison, Wis. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Todd Mehrhoff, 49, Waunakee, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to three years of probation for obtaining fentanyl by use of misrepresentation and fraud.
