News from March 2019
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: At 4:26 this afternoon, a wildfire was reported at Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) in Frisco, N.C. The fire was estimated to be more than five acres in size and burning in the back-dune vegetation approximately 1/8 mile north of Ramp 48 between the Inside Road and beachfront.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Attorney embezzled from clients to pay gambling debts, live extravagant lifestyle.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Eddie Junior Saez (28, Cape Coral) to nine years and seven months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Saez was found guilty by a federal jury on Dec. 12, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced in federal court in Boston for fentanyl conspiracy.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy has announced $36 million in awards for 18 projects as part of the High Intensity Thermal Exchange through Materials and Manufacturing Processes (HITEMMP) program , as well as the final OPEN+ Cohort, High Temperature Devices. These project teams seek to develop new approaches and technologies for the design and manufacture of high temperature, high pressure, and highly compact heat exchangers and components.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Donald W. Wyatt (Wyatt) Detention Center inmate has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, and a concurrent term of 24 months in federal prison for attempting to possess a controlled substance and possessing an 8-inch shank while detained at the Wyatt Detention Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Yossi Avitan, a resident and citizen of Israel, has been sentenced to a five-month term of imprisonment for taking part in an international conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against four Houston men for robbery and using firearms during the crimes of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. During one of the alleged offenses, an elderly employee was shot and killed.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 22, 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 markup on Tuesday, March 26, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
Release: WAYNESBORO, GA—Today at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced that the Department of Energy reached financial close for up to $3.7 billion in additional guarantees of loans to finance the continued construction of Vogtle Units 3 and 4, the nation’s only active advanced nuclear energy construction project.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Colorado Man Pleads Guilty to $7.2 Million Biodiesel Tax Credit Fraud Scheme.
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today made the following statement regarding the administration’s announcement of new sanctions on 14 individuals and 17 entities related to nuclear weapons development in Iran:
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ-On March 4, 2019, Fydel Jones, 53, of Supai, Arizona, was sentenced to time served plus lifetime supervised release with sex offender conditions, sex offender registration, and conditions preventing him from conducting sweat lodge ceremonies with individuals who are not Native American. Jones previously pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact, a class E felony offense.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) issued the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the health and safety studies it used to conduct its risk evaluation of Pigment Violet 29 (PV29) - studies the Agency had previously refused to make public after wrongly claiming that they constituted “Confidential Business Information":
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
Release: NORFOLK, Va.-A local man was caught by the Transportation Security Administration with a loaded handgun at a Norfolk International Airport checkpoint on Tuesday, March 19th, marking the second firearm that TSA officers have caught at the airport’s checkpoints so far this calendar year. In 2018, TSA officers stopped 21 guns at the airport’s checkpoints.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Bruno Maurico-Solis and Javier Rosario-Azamar, both citizens of Mexico, have admitted to reentering the country illegally, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Defendant Fled With Victim’s Lexus Sedan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Eddie Junior Saez (28, Cape Coral) to nine years and seven months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Saez was found guilty by a federal jury on Dec. 12, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Cory Newland, 35, and Joshua Titus, 30, officers with the Elkhart, Indiana, Police Department, were indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Hammond for using excessive force against an arrestee.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) is encouraging any current or former officials or employees of Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), who are familiar with the FAA’s aircraft certification program, to utilize the Committee’s...
