News from October 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), Oversight and Investigations Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) issued the following statement today in response to the release of the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report on the Department of Energy’s (DOE) framework for making risk-informed cleanup decisions...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Defendant Made False Statements During Background Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Box Elder man who admitted strangling a woman to death on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation was sentenced this week to 21 years and four months in prison followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has awarded over $273.4 million in grants to improve public safety, serve victims of crime, combat violence against women and support youth programs in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Chinese National Sentenced to 40 Months in Prison for Conspiring to Illegally Export Military- and Space-Grade Technology from the United States to China.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Rodney Williams, age 36, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Oct. 17, 2019 to 20 years’ imprisonment followed by three years on supervised release by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo, for distributing fentanyl and heroin to another person that resulted in the death of that person.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it has awarded over $273.4 million in grants to improve public safety, serve victims of crime, combat violence against women and support youth programs in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today an increase in the number of jobs supported through BLM activities in fiscal year 2018 as well as the total output for the American economy. Socioeconomic figures in a newly-released report highlight a 9% increase over Fiscal Year 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Dallas Fugitive Captured in Mexico and Returned to the United States for Prosecution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jace Whitenight, age 25, of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Oct. 16, 2019, to 84 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann, for a conspiracy to distribute heroin that occurred from 2015 through 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph Chojnacki, 26, of Cheektowaga, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: A federal jury convicted a Cleveland man for his role in the armed robberies of credit unions in Shaker Heights and Willoughby on the same day.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A member of a drug-trafficking organization has admitted his role in distributing significant amounts of illegal drugs in Camden, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy is hosting its 2019 Program Review November 18-21 at the Sheraton Denver West Hotel in Lakewood, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following the successful launch of the 2019 National Red Ribbon Campaign earlier this month with First Lady Melania Trump at the annual Red Ribbon Rally, DEA is encouraging communities nationwide to Go Red for Red Ribbon - an effort to continue the momentum and promote awareness of the need to prevent drug misuse and abuse.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ - Members of the public and media are invited to attend the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Advisory Council’s semi-annual fall meeting. Discussions will include status of salinity control activities as high levels of salinity concentration in the Colorado River water is a major threat to the Upper and Lower Colorado River Basins as it affects agricultural, municipal and industrial water users.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - With robust public participation over the course of 17 prior events, the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative continues to remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to misuse, theft or abuse by family members and visitors, including children and teens.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), Oversight and Investigations Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) issued the following statement today in response to the release of the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report on the Department of Energy’s (DOE) framework for making risk-informed cleanup decisions...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-A California man who admitted conspiring to bring methamphetamine to Missoula for distribution was sentenced today to 15 years and 10 months in prison and to five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Former Osteo Relief Institutes and Their Owners to Pay Over $7.1 Million to Resolve Allegations of Unnecessary Knee Injections and Braces.
