News from May 2019
By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: In recognition of National Small Business Week, May 5-11, EM Update is spotlighting some of the companies that work with EM on its renewed focus of driving cleanup toward completion. In fiscal 2018, EM's small business procurements totaled nearly $400 million, allowing small businesses to leave their...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia man was sentenced today to nearly 16 years in prison for robbing a gun and ammunition dealer at gunpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Ken Duc Ma, 60, of Exeter, was sentenced in federal court to four months in prison for promoting and managing an establishment for the purpose of prostitution, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A federal jury in Las Vegas, Nevada, yesterday convicted Craig P. Orrock, a former attorney and former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee, of tax evasion and obstructing the internal revenue laws, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada, and Special Agent in Charge Tara Sullivan of IRS-Criminal Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: Larry Rhines, of Collinsville, Illinois, has been charged by indictment with conspiracy to commit robberies with firearms, two counts of business robbery, one count of bank robbery, and the use of firearms to commit each of those robberies, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois...
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico is announcing a two-week public review and comment period for the environmental documents for its Sept. 5, 2019 oil and gas lease sale. Seventeen parcels (4,980 acres) of federal minerals are proposed for lease. The parcels are located in Eddy, Chaves, Lea and McKinley counties, New Mexico; Coal and Major counties, Oklahoma; and Greeley County, Kansas. The review and comment period will run from May 13-24, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Robert Richard Jodoin, 50, of Flagler Beach, was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for importing GHB into the United States, distributing benzoyl fentanyl, possessing with the intent to distribute N-Ethylhexedrone, maintaining a residence for the purpose of distributing...
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: Will corn, chicken and Champagne scuttle a US-EU trade deal?.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Jeremy D. Stidham, Dario Adrian Mauriz-Cruz, Wayne Russell Fugate, and Larry Joe Burton have all entered guilty pleas to federal charges related to stolen firearms. Stidham and Mauriz-Cruz pleaded guilty to stealing firearms and selling them. Fugate pleaded guilty to buying stolen firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Oklahoma returned a twelve-count indictment last Wednesday afternoon charging two individuals in connection with the theft and embezzlement of funds from business entities wholly owned by the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town (AQTT) of Wetumka, Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: The solitude, remoteness, and arid landscape of Fort Union National Monument make it an ideal place for observing a natural dark sky. After sunset, the sky over the high prairie gives way to the glow of celestial bodies unaffected by the artificial light of distant communities. Immerse yourself in the...
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management will offer 18 parcels, totaling approximately 8,223 acres, in the June 27, 2019 quarterly oil and gas lease sale. This lease sale includes six parcels totaling approximately 3,419 acres that were previously deferred from the March 2019 lease sale.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Adam Leone 32, of Long Island, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography involving prepubescent minors, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - A federal jury has found Rudolph Randolph Meighan, 28, of Belize; Jorge Ramon Newball-May, 48, of Colombia; and Calbot Reid-Dilbert, 59, of Colombia, each guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine while...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - Two New Jersey residents were indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on May 7, 2019, on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: This morning the Finance Committee takes a broad look at challenges with the retirement system. I want to begin my remarks with a word on Social Security.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on May 10, 2019, Seth M. Rector (age: 37) was sentenced by the Honorable Chief Judge William C. Griesbach to two years in prison and eight years supervised release following his guilty plea to possession of...
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: Good morning. Today the committee will continue its work on retirement security and the challenges facing the U.S. retirement system.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman recognized the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and tribal police officers on the occasion of National Police Week, which is being observed Sunday, May 12 to Saturday, May 18, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Ruben Longoria, Jr., 31, of Dallas, aka “Scooter," was sentenced to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison today for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine from Texas into the Middle District of Florida. Longoria had pleaded guilty on Jan. 29, 2019.
