News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Joseph W. Cronin, Inspector in Charge of the Boston Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, today announced that...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Douglas Sickler, age 38, of Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on April 25, 2019, by United States District Judge Robert D. Mariani to 63 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release, for an armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Paterson-based contractor today admitted conspiring with a commissioner of the now-defunct Paterson Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA) to steal funds and pay kickbacks in return for obtaining work from the authority, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | May 29, 2019
Release: BOSTON - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is holding a one-day, “fast track" hiring event on Saturday, June 29, to recruit full- and part-time TSA officers to work at Boston Logan International Airport. The goal is to have many of the new employees onboard during the busy summer travel season.
By Homeland Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the conclusion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation...
By DOL Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: MACON, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a combined 22 citations to Kumho Tire Georgia Inc., Sae Joong Mold Inc., and J-Brothers Inc. after a follow-up inspection found safety and health hazards at the tire manufacturing facility in Macon, Georgia. The three companies collectively face $523,895 in proposed penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: Houston Patient Recruiter Sentenced to 188 Months in Prison for Role in $20 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: EMINENCE, MO - Celebrate National Trails Day with Ozark National Scenic Riverways and Missouri State Parks! Join us for a special hike-float event on the Current River, beginning at Echo Bluff State Park at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 1. This event is free and open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: New York Man Wanted for Murder Added to FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: SHILOH, Tennessee - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 376,100 visitors to Shiloh National Military Park in 2018 spent $22.2 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 341 jobs in the local areas and had a cumulative benefit to the local economies of $25.6 million.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: Berlin, MD - The National Park Service has completed its May 2019 population census of the wild horses on Assateague Island. The total population of the Maryland herd is currently at 76 horses, including 21 stallions and 55 mares. There was one birth documented during the census (chestnut filly N2BHS-AR)...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., business owner pleaded guilty in federal court today to a more than $544,000 tax fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: For Possession With The Intent to Distribute Cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: Operation Safe Summer II Locates More Than 200 Missing/Exploited Children.
By DOE Newswire | May 29, 2019
Release: VANCOUVER, B.C. – At the 10th Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM10) meeting today, a new international hydrogen partnership was announced under the leadership of the United States, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands and the European Commission with participation of several other CEM member countries. The International ...
By USDA Newswire | May 29, 2019
Release: USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has assessed the potential environmental impacts associated with releasing release of the hoverfly Cheilosia urbana to biologically control invasive hawkweeds (Pilosella species) within the contiguous United States. Based on a thorough analysis, APHIS ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today a federal jury convicted Richard Farmer, Sr., 44, of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and ecstasy after a four-day trial before the Honorable Robert J. Jonker, Chief United States District Judge. Farmer faces up to thirty years in prison when he is sentenced on October 9.
By US DOT Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: By: U.S. Senator John Barrasso May 29, 2019 Wall Street Journal If the U.S. is serious about climate change, we must become serious about nuclear energy. Roughly 60% of America's carbon-free energy comes from nuclear power. That's more than three times the energy produced by wind and more than 18 times ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted two men on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-In the 12 months that Project Safe Neighborhoods, a federal initiative, has been at work in Missoula County, violent crime has fallen significantly as law enforcement has dismantled drug trafficking rings, seized methamphetamine and firearms, and prosecuted nearly 70 federal and state offenders, top federal, state and local prosecutors announced today.
