News from May 2019
By Homeland Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A federal grand today returned a three-count indictment against three alleged gang members of La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) for their involvement in connection with a kidnapping and murder.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Wednesday, May 8 at 10 am in 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building on H.R. 1603, the Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act of 2019. The hearing is entitled, “Ban Asbestos Now: Taking Action to Save Lives and Livelihoods."
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Kikiktagruk Inupiat Corporation (“KIC"), an Alaska Native Corporation, and KIC Development LLC (“KICD"), a subsidiary of KIC, have agreed to pay $2.025 million to settle allegations that kickbacks were paid by KICD so that the company would obtain diverted “set aside" contracts to do construction work at Ft. Bliss military installation in El Paso, Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury yesterday found Robert Francis Pratersch (57, Kissimmee) guilty of threatening a federal official and interstate transmission of a threat to injure. Pratersch faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 16, 2019.
By EPA Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: The Federal government, acting through the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, known as PHMSA has an important responsibility to develop and enforce regulations for the safe, reliable, and environmentally sound operation of the nation’s 2.7 million miles of pipelines. Pipelines are...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Jose Antonio Morales, 33, of Fort Pierce, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg to a total of 84 months in prison today, after having been convicted at trial of being a felon unlawfully in possession of a firearm and possessing marijuana with the intent to distribute the controlled substance (Case No. 18-Cr-14056).
By US DOT Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) held a hearing on a Discussion Draft Bill, S. __, Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2019. Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Albuquerque District announces that it is seeking public nominations for six positions on its Resource Advisory Council (RAC), which advises the BLM on public land issues within the Albuquerque District. As advertised in the Federal Register, the BLM will consider nominations until June 14, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the release of a district-wide Request for Proposals (RFP) under its Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) initiative, the centerpiece of the Department’s violent crime reduction strategy. PSN is a nationwide initiative, led by U.S. Attorneys, which...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Former CIA Officer Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Espionage.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations hearing entitled, “DOE’s Mounting Cleanup Costs: Billions in Environmental Liability and Growing":
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Timothy Burns, age 50, of Brookings, South Dakota, was found guilty of five counts of wire fraud as a result of a five-day federal jury trial in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Le’Quan Registe, 25, of St. Thomas, was found guilty of possession with intent to distribute marijuana after a jury trial in District Court, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. The jury trial lasted one day, commencing on April 29, 2019, with jury deliberations commencing and concluding on April 30, 2019. Registe was acquitted of an additional charge of possession of a firearm in furtherance of marijuana distribution.
By Commerce Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Wednesday, May 8 at 10 am in 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building on H.R. 1603, the Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act of 2019. The hearing is entitled, “Ban Asbestos Now: Taking Action to Save Lives and Livelihoods."
By DOL Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration submitting its legal brief in the Texas v. Azar case in which it argued that the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down.
