News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart, along with federal and state law enforcement officials, will hold a press conference on Monday, May 6, 2019, at 9:30a.m., to discuss a significant civil settlement.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Newton man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with illegally using the identity of another individual to apply for two business loans.
By DOE Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $33.5 million for early-stage research and development of advanced building construction techniques to reduce energy bills.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Steven V. Stenger, 47, of Clayton, pleaded guilty today on three counts of honest services bribery/mail fraud in front of U.S. District Court Judge Catherine D. Perry, who set his sentencing hearing on August 9, 2019.
By State Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) have introduced a resolution condemning the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, offering sincere condolences to the victims, to their families and friends, and to the people and nation of Sri Lanka, and expressing solidarity and support for Sri Lanka.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: CODY, Wyo. -Today the Bureau of Land Management Cody Field Office released the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Leavitt Reservoir Expansion Project near Shell, Wyoming. The proposed project, from the Wyoming Water Development Commission, supports the BLM’s commitment to modernizing infrastructure and is consistent with Wyoming’s 2015 Water Strategy.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public nominations for its two Western Slope resource advisory councils.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Yesterday a federal jury convicted a Birmingham man of possessing nearly half a kilogram of the highly addictive and extremely potent opioid fentanyl with the intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Jay Town and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CHARLES WILKERSON, 37, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of distribution of 28 grams or more of cocaine base (“crack").
By DOE Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Martha McSally, R-Ariz., and Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, yesterday introduced bipartisan legislation that takes a comprehensive approach to begin reducing the United States’ dependence on foreign minerals. Murkowski made the announcement about S. 1317, the American Mineral Security Act, yesterday morning while delivering remarks at the Benchmark Minerals Summit.
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) will host a demonstration of cutting-edge biometric technologies on Thursday, May 16th at the Maryland Test Facility in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. The demonstration is part of S&T’s biometric technology rally designed to foster innovation, create partnerships across government and industry, and test concepts to meet challenging DHS operational needs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Lauderdale County man has been sentenced to 100 months in federal prison for illegally possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By US DOT Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) announced who will be testifying before the Subcommittee during the hearing titled “Status of the Boeing 737 MAX."
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A musician from a west suburb of Chicago was sentenced today to ten years in federal prison for enticing several underage girls, some as young as 14 years old, to produce sexually explicit videos of themselves.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Ramesh Kris Nathan was indicted on charges related to an alleged investment fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. In an indictment filed Jan. 17, 2019, and unsealed today, a federal...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio inmate has been charged federally for writing at least 15 threatening letters containing powder. In some of the letters, he allegedly claimed the powder was anthrax or fentanyl or threatened the use of explosive devices.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jason Lyle Mooneyham, age 48, of Paris, Texas, entered a guilty plea to Theft from Indian Gaming Establishments, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1167(b), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Robert McKenna, 48, of Indian Township, Maine; Renita Honea, 57, of Jonesport, Maine; Chandra Hanscom, 44, of Cutler, Maine; Barry McCarthy, 43, of Columbia, Maine; Cody Look, 30, of Cutler; William Smeal, 32, of Hancock, Maine; Ralph...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office and the Swanton Sector of the United States Border Patrol announce that Francisco Alejo-Medrano, 27, a citizen of Mexico who has no legal status in the United States, appeared yesterday in United States District Court in Burlington on a charge that he unlawfully transported aliens within the United States. U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss ordered that Alejo-Medrano be detained pending further proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Danny Rydle, 29, of Biddeford, Maine pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy and theft of firearms from a federally licensed firearms dealer.
