News from May 2019

By Homeland Newswire | May 9, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2020 Legislative Branch bill.

By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Superseding Indictment Adds Developer/Entrepreneur to Racketeering Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jerry Hayes, 71, of West Seneca, NY, who was convicted of unlawfully mailing lottery tickets and related matter, was fined $1,000 by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.

By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - DEA Phoenix Division Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman announces the arrest of Jocelyn Lopez-Sanchez, a 22-year old Tucson woman who is now in custody following an indictment obtained by DEA agents Wednesday afternoon. Lopez-Sanchez was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 1, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: For Being A Felon In Possession Of A Firearm.

By DOE Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Energy (DOE) announced an $8 million investment in innovative approaches to enhance the reliability and resilience of the nation’s energy infrastructure. The partnership opportunity will spur the development of next generation tools and technologies that are not available...
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: WELLFLEET, MA. - United States Park Rangers of Cape Cod National Seashore are seeking the public’s help with identifying those responsible for an incident that damaged protected species habitat between Coast Guard Beach Eastham and Coast Guard Beach Truro, between the evening of May 4 and the morning of May 5.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Heidi Langevin, 44 of Belmont, New Hampshire, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced.
By USDA Newswire | May 9, 2019
Release: Washington, DC, May 9, 2019 - As part of Hurricane Preparedness Week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced improvements to the Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP). In its continued commitment to serve Americans in times of need while enhancing public trust...

By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: A Cedar Rapids woman who gave a fugitive a car ride to a hotel was sentenced today to three months in federal prison. Saudia Raquel Watkins, age 28, received the prison term after a November 7, 2018, guilty plea to one count of Misprision of a Felony.

By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - Fire managers from the Northwest Colorado Fire Management Unit are planning to conduct two prescribed burns in Moffat County beginning Monday.
By State Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C.- Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Committee’s Chairman, yesterday introduced legislation calling on the Trump Administration to retain limits on Russia’s nuclear forces. The “Richard G.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FUGUAN LOVICK, a/k/a “Fu Banga," pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to a shooting that he committed inside the Barclays Center on April 21, 2018, as part of his participation in the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods (“Nine Trey"). U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer accepted the defendant’s guilty plea.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Visions of Harmony: Painted Tapestries of South Florida’s Coral Reefs will open in Biscayne National Park’s Dante Fascell Visitor Center Gallery on May 17, 2019, and run daily through August 18. The paintings by the Palette Knife Artists of Miami feature interpretations of Florida’s 350-mile-long reef...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Minneapolis Division Jill Sanborn, and Bloomington Police Chief Jeff Potts will convene a community meeting on May 14, 2019, to talk about the issue of sextortion and the alarming increase that law enforcement is seeing in...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Physician’s Medical License Revoked in 2012.

By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: North Korean Cargo Vessel Connected to Sanctions Violations Seized by U.S. Government.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - At a recently concluded Capitol Hill press conference this morning, Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), announced the introduction of their House and Senate mining reform bills to modernize the nation’s badly antiquated hardrock mining laws. Energy and Mineral...

By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Three people were indicted in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute THC.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Join the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) and become an important member of a team of dedicated individuals who work to maintain the park. As a member of the Youth Conservation Corps you will personally have a role in protecting the nation's precious resources.