News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that THOMAS MALONE, 49, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for embezzling approximately $1 million from a New Haven biotech company that receives federal research grants.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX -The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) signed a lease agreement allowing the Parks and Recreation Department to enter into a Recreation and Public Purposes (R&PP) lease with the BLM Hassayampa Field Office. Under the lease, the parks department will be responsible for managing approximately 1,046 acres of public lands near Wickenburg, Arizona.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following a U.S. District Court decision striking down the Trump Administration’s attempts to impose work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following a U.S. District Court decision striking down the Trump Administration’s attempts to impose work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Good morning, and welcome to our witnesses and audience members. Thank you everyone for being here today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An armed Pawtucket heroin dealer has been sentenced to five years and one day in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman, Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves, and Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England Field Division Brian D. Boyle.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: A Killeen, Texas, private track coach and retired U.S. Army sergeant first class pleaded guilty Tuesday to transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity during a college visit in June 2017, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Mark Jay Courtney, of Montrose, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 21 months incarceration for distributing heroin, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Wilkinsburg, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to violations of federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee and the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the fiscal year 2020 budget request for the Department of State.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Michael S. Johnson, age 48, of Robinson, Illinois, has been sentenced to serve 210 months in federal prison for his convictions on methamphetamine and firearm charges, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that a Federal Grand Jury in Greenville, South Carolina, returned an Indictment alleging a conspiracy to engage in mail and wire fraud. Scott A. Kohn, age 64, of Newport, California, and Future Income Payments, LLC (FIP), an entity organized under the laws of Nevada, are charged in the Indictment.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon are seeking information from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) regarding recent federal investigations into potential illegal kickback schemes...
By State Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at a press conference on the introduction of H.R. 9 Climate Action Now Act...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced funding selectees for multiple domestic advanced nuclear technology projects. Four projects in two states will receive varying amounts for a total of approximately $19 million in funding. The projects are cost-shared and will allow ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Norwich Police Chief Patrick J. Daley today announced that, on March 5, 2019, a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment today charging 13 individuals with trafficking narcotics. The indictment was unsealed today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - A previously removed Salvadoran national was arrested Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in New York. ERO deportation officers assigned to the ERO New York Long Island Sub-Office’s Joint Criminal Alien Removal Taskforce (JCART), ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who led a congressional delegation to Puerto Rico on March 15-18 that featured a public listening session in San Juan and meetings with local and elected officials, released the following statement on President Trump’s comments today suggesting that Puerto Rico has received too much federal assistance.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following a U.S. District Court decision striking down the Trump Administration’s attempts to impose work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee markup on H.R. 1781, H.R. 938, H.R. 1520, H.R. 1503, H.R. 1499, H.R. 965, H.R. 1385, H.R. 1386, H.R. 1425, H.R. 987, H.R. 986, H.R. 1010...
