News from May 2019
By US DOT Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to openly disregard the recent findings and recommendations of the EPA Inspector General (IG), U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), ...
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: BAKER CITY, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management’s National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center will be connecting kids to public lands and America’s natural and cultural heritage.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that James Jerome Reed, 36, of Eight Mile, Alabama was sentenced in federal court to a term of 160 months imprisonment for his involvement in drug distribution and firearms violations. Reed, having been previously convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 11 years’ (132 months’) imprisonment, followed by 10 years’ supervised release on his conviction of distribution of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: UPDATE: Nighttime traffic delays on the Carl Hayden Bridge over the Colorado River near Page, Arizona will not be occurring June 4 through 7, as previously announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ISIAH DUNCAN, 36, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA A resident of Wexford, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to five years’ probation on his conviction for willful failure to pay over taxes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: United States Files False Claims Act Complaint Against Home Health Agency and Two of Its Owners.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: . St. Thomas, USVI -United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today that Duane Woods, Jr. has been indicted for Receiving Stolen Government Property and Grand Larceny. According to the indictment, Woods, who worked for FEMA at the time, converted...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Florence, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Jeremy Lamar Hayes, 29, and Kennedy Boggs, 26, were sentenced in federal court in Florence on federal robbery and gun charges. Hayes previously pleaded guilty to two counts of Hobbs Act Robbery (robbery affecting ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that Myrna Thomas Quarles, 58, of Cotton Valley, Louisiana, was indicted by a federal grand jury for taking more than $1 million from a federal feeding program meant for low-income children.
By US DOT Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will hold the 66th meeting of the COMSTAC to discuss issues and topics relevant to the commercial space transportation industry, including congressional activity and updates from the FAA, NASA, National Space Council, and Members of Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - An indictment by a federal grand jury was unsealed today charging a doctor and seven others for conspiring to distribute Oxycodone and Hydrocodone, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Division.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, NV - The Black Rock Field Office, in coordination with partner organizations Friends of Black Rock High Rock, Friends of Nevada Wilderness, and the Nevada Outdoor School announces the cancellation of the Black Rock Rendezvous. The group camping event was scheduled for May 24-27 on the Black Rock Playa. The event is being cancelled due to unsafe road conditions created by consistent rain and wet conditions on the playa.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management today announced the release of the Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP)/Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Four Rivers Field Office and is asking for public comments through Aug. 22, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Children in grades 4 - 6 are invited to participate in Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park’s 2019 summer day camp at Chickamauga Battlefield and/or at Lookout Mountain Battlefield. This year the park will conduct its Chickamauga Battlefield camp from Tuesday, July...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Fla. - Jonathan Bohn, aka “Jonah," 35, of Orlando, was arrested on charges of distribution of a controlled substance that resulted in death was unsealed today. If convicted, Bohn faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison.
By State Newswire | May 23, 2019
Release: This separate section on Xinjiang is included given the scope and severity of reported religious freedom violations specific to the region this year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Tyler C. Amon, Special Agent in Charge of EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division in New England, today announced that ALEKS RAKAJ, 46, of Trumbull, pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to one count of illegal asbestos removal in violation of the Clean Air Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Mexican man who has been deported at taxpayer expense on three previous occasions was sentenced today to nearly two years in prison for his fourth illegal reentry into the United States.
