News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A Bureau of Prisons (BOP) correctional officer who was a lieutenant assigned to investigate wrongdoing by inmates and officers at the Federal Correctional Complex, Victorville, has been arrested on federal charges alleging he took thousands of dollars in cash bribes in exchange for smuggling contraband into the prison.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: RENO, Nev. -- Today, Jon Raby was officially sworn in as the Bureau of Land Management Nevada State Director by BLM’s Deputy Director for Policy Brian Steed.
By State Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, the Chairmen of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House Foreign Affairs Committee and House Committee on Oversight and Reform wrote to Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and Secretary of State Michael Pompeo to request documents from and interviews with...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO - Michael Keith Pilgrim, 44, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Pilgrim was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David C. Nye. Pilgrim pleaded guilty on Nov. 30, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today that it is seeking contractors for off-range pastures to provide a free-roaming environment and quality care for wild horses removed from Western public lands. The BLM will award multiple contracts that can accommodate 200 - 5,000 head of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Law enforcement authorities associated with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force on Sunday arrested a Long Beach man on federal charges stemming from an explosion last year that destroyed a day spa in Aliso Viejo, killed the man’s former girlfriend, and caused serious injuries to two spa clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Bruce Ralph Sturtz, age 73, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, for possession and distribution of child pornography. The indictment was returned on Feb. 25, 2019 and unsealed today upon Sturtz’s arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - The ringleader of a crew that committed 10 armed robberies of Verizon stores across Southern California and Arizona, netting approximately $340,000 worth of stolen smartphones and other merchandise in the process, pleaded guilty on Friday to three federal felonies.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced up to $31 million in funding to advance the H2@Scale concept. The focus of H2@Scale is to enable affordable and reliable large-scale hydrogen generation, transport, storage, and utilization in the United States across multiple sectors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: Andrew Wigfall, III, of East St. Louis, Illinois, has been charged by indictment with production of child pornography, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced today. The one-count federal indictment alleges that the offense occurred in St. Clair County...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: Gailey admitted receiving images of the sexual abuse and exploitation of infants and toddlers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Michael J. West, 39, of Lexington, was sentenced today, by U.S. District Judge Joseph M. Hood, to 260 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and heroin, two counts of possession with the intent to distribute, three counts of distribution, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Compton, Calif., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine through the mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury indicted a Opelika woman on multiple counts of wire fraud announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp.
By State Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement after a committee briefing from the administration on the status of the Global Magnitsky investigation related to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi:
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: The former Allen County Sheriff pleaded guilty to for asking for and taking bribes from people arrested in prostitution stings, suspected gamblers and others.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee released the following statement after the release of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that assessed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s implementation of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and its Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
Release: News Media Contact: (202) 586-4940 For Immediate Release U.S. Department of Energy Announces Scholarship Awards for the Next Generation of Nuclear Scientists and Engineers WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced more than $5 million in undergraduate scholarships and graduate ...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, joined with House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), and Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) in sending letters ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Democratic leaders of the House and Senate will host a press event Wednesday, March 6, at 11:15 a.m. in the Rayburn Room of the U.S. Capitol to unveil net neutrality legislation that will keep the internet open and free.
