News from May 2019
By DOL Newswire | May 24, 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’s proposal to scrap key health care protections that prevent and respond to discrimination.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 466,000 visitors to Carlsbad Caverns National Park in 2018 spent $30.2 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 405 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $34 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on May 22, 2019, MALCOLM NEWTON, also known as “Biggie," 25, of New Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 66 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine in New Haven.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: LEMON GROVE, Calif. - Yesterday the United States Drug Enforcement Administration executed a federal search warrant at a warehouse located at 7648 Lemon Avenue, Lemon Grove, Calif., and uncovered a sophisticated hash oil refinery laboratory operation. Large quantities of ethanol were removed from the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Defendant Left a Threatening Voice-Message in Retaliation for the Senator’s Criticism of the President of the United States and the Senator’s Position on Reproductive Rights.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: LARAMIE, Wyo. - The Deerwood Ranch Wild Horse Public Off-Range Pasture, with the BLM and the Mantle Ranch and Wild Horse Training Facility, will host a wild horse adoption and free Open Ranch Days June 7 - 8. The BLM is committed to managing healthy wild horses on healthy, productive rangelands by working with local communities to place excess wild horses and burros into caring homes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Mateo L. Maestas, 21, of Acoma Pueblo, N.M., appeared in federal court on Thursday on charges of involuntary manslaughter following a deadly automobile accident earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: In El Paso, a federal judge has sentenced three men for their roles in a sex trafficking scheme, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Jack P. Staton.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Teresa Malone, 58, of Carthage, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to 41 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for paying kickbacks to former Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) Commissioner Christopher Epps, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Malone was also ordered to pay $225,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Loren Young Park, age 52, formerly of Falls Church, Virginia, to nine years in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain...
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and Education and Labor Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott released the following joint statement today on the Trump Administration’s proposed rule to further undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by attempting to reverse anti-discrimination provisions of the law that protect women and transgender Americans’ rights...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced on federal firearms charge, said United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Michael D. Williams, 50, was sentenced to 72 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and violating the terms of his supervised release. The investigation was conducted by the Charleston Police Department, with assistance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Eric Wayne Grinder, age 36, of Westminster, Maryland, to 30 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release for five counts of production of child pornography, one count of attempted production of child pornography...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - United States Attorney James Kennedy, Jr., and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced that Juan Sampel, 48, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted following a jury trial of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 360 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Congress Must Provide Certainty to Taxpayers, Provide Solutions on Extenders.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Five law enforcement representatives and one community leader were recognized today for their outstanding work in the greater Martinsburg area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Teresa Malone, 58, of Carthage, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to 41 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for paying kickbacks to former Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) Commissioner Christopher Epps, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Malone was also ordered to pay $225,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Zoos in Topeka and Wichita are receiving tiger and lion pelts that federal agents seized from wildlife traffickers, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today.
By EPA Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and Education and Labor Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott released the following joint statement today on the Trump Administration’s proposed rule to further undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by attempting to reverse anti-discrimination provisions of the law that protect women and transgender Americans’ rights...
By US DOT Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) were joined by ten senators this week in reintroducing legislation that would authorize more than $1 billion to help small and disadvantaged communities replace contaminated water infrastructure to comply with Safe Drinking Water Act requirements.
