News from May 2019
By Commerce News Now | May 28, 2019
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on May 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 28, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on May 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | May 28, 2019
The US Commerce Department published a one page proposed rule on May 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Saul Rivkin, age 55, of Chester County, Pennsyvlania, was charged in a criminal information on May 23, 2019, with fleeing from National Park Service Rangers.

By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - A first-time collaboration involving data analysis between EM’s Savannah River Site (SRS) and the University of South Carolina-Aiken (USCA) has proven successful as four computer science students recently presented their work in a final step toward graduation.

By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio today, 40-year-old former Homeland Security Investigations agent Richard Nikolai Gratkowski was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison on child pornography charges, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Erica Oliveira, 29, of Hermon, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to two years in prison and three years of supervised for conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack." She pleaded guilty on Oct. 15, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: In Waco today, a federal judge sentenced 38-year-old methamphetamine distribution ringleader Daniel Louis Lopez to life in federal prison, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division; FBI Special Agent in Charge...

By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that the 6.3 million visitors to Grand Canyon National Park in 2018 spent $947 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 12,558 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $1.2 billion.
By Homeland Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO - Special Agent in Charge Brad Bench of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Seattle Field Office and U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today that a federal jury sitting in Pocatello returned guilty verdicts against Lex Bennett Goodwin, 34, on...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Andrew Young (619) 546-7981, Benjamin J. Katz (619) 546-9604, Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced former Baltimore Police Detective Jemell Lamar Rayam, age 38, of Owings Mills, Maryland, to 12 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a racketeering conspiracy, including multiple robberies, and overtime fraud.

By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Hanford Site workers continue to make significant progress removing radioactive soil under a former engineering laboratory.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Gift Card Fraud.

By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: John Scarpa, Jr., an attorney admitted to practice law in the State of New York since 1982, was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of both counts of use of interstate facilities in aid of racketeering and conspiracy to do the same, stemming from his scheme to bribe a witness in a double homicide...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Alex Noonan, 31, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 120 months in prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Catarina Ixquiactap-Morales, 21, an illegal alien from Guatemala, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to unlawful return of an alien after removal, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans, and Gregory K. Bovino, Chief Patrol Agent of the Border Patrol’s New Orleans Sector.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) released the second of its four-part video series spotlighting the site’s environmental research. This segment explores how the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ’s Aquatic Ecology Lab supports OREM.

By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: In Waco today, a federal judge sentenced 38-year-old methamphetamine distribution ringleader Daniel Louis Lopez to life in federal prison, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division; FBI Special Agent in Charge...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Beaver County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to violations of the federal firearms and narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.