News from March 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in response to President Trump’s tweet reversing Treasury Department sanctions on Chinese shipping companies...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Brandin Gardner was sentenced today for illegally possessing firearms while on federal supervised release following prior felony convictions for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A California man who was convicted of recruiting and transporting a child from California to Las Vegas, Nevada, to engage in commercial sex acts was sentenced today to 300 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Brandon Mays, of Fairmont, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Sunday, April 7, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will host a special one hour ranger-led program examining the ways in which soldiers physically prepared for, and exerted themselves during, the Battle of Chickamauga. This free program will take place behind the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center.
By EPA 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 Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Northbound George Washington Memorial Parkway will remain closed through the weekend as road crews and engineers work to fully assess the extent of the sinkhole and repair the road.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Defendant Previously Convicted in California and Mississippi for Drugs and Firearm Offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Two Elkhart, Indiana, Police Officers Charged With Federal Civil Rights Offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return by a grand jury of an indictment charging Sean Patrick Farrelly (47, Palm Coast) with sex trafficking of a minor girl. If convicted, Farrelly faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Allegedly Competed Against GE as ThermoGen Power Services Using Stolen Trade Secrets.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Friday, U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. sentenced James Jay Hitt, 51, of Anderson, to 40 years in prison for distribution and receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - A federal grand jury has indicted EDUARDO VILLA-ALVAREZ, 22, JOSE MANUEL SOTO-OCHOA, 22, and KRISTNADEVY MENDOZA-ZAMBRANO, 22, with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Dr. Michael L. Cummings, 63, a family practitioner in Albany, Kentucky, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, March 18, 2019, to 13 counts of prescribing controlled substances without any legitimate medical purpose and outside the course of professional medical practice, announced First Assistant United States Attorney Michael A. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Six local individuals have been indicted for multiple carjackings involving the use and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the indictments today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned this week before U.S. Magistrate judges and indictments handed down by the Grand Jury were unsealed. Indictments are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News 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 Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - On Thursday, March 21, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers removed a Iranian citizen convicted in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (SDFL) of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that THOMAS J. HALLERAN, 37, of Cheshire, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by six years of supervised release, for distributing narcotics to a woman in Southington who died from an overdose.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A North Las Vegas man who operated two tax preparation businesses was arrested last night and appeared in federal court today for devising a fraud scheme to fraudulently obtain and launder millions of dollars from the sale of his businesses, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
