News from October 2019
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: ‘Tis the season to make your holiday plans! Make the National Christmas Tree Lighting in our nation’s capital part of your family’s 2019 celebration. This year’s event takes place on Thursday, Dec. 5 on the Ellipse in President’s Park (one of America’s 419 national parks!). You can enter to win tickets through a free online lottery. The lottery closes at 10 a.m. EDT on Oct. 21.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Dear Inspector General Atkinson: We have reviewed your October 8, 2019 response to our letters on Sept. 30, 2019 and Oct. 2, 2019, regarding the “Disclosure of Urgent Concern" form and the “Background Information on ICWPA Process" informational sheet. Your response mostly repeated information...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: A Wynona man pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court for dismantling and stealing oil pumping rig equipment from pumpjacks in Osage County, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Brookings, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Distribution and Receipt of Child Pornography.
By State Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of H.J.Res 77, his bipartisan joint measure denouncing President Trump’s policy in Northern Syria...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-IL) from today’s hearing entitled, “Examining the Future of Transportation Network Companies: Challenges and Opportunities":
By USDA Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Nearly a million U.S. children would lose direct eligibility for free school meals under the Trump Administration’s proposed changes to Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility, according to an impact analysis released this week by the Agriculture Department. That number is more than twice the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: A former Dallas Police Officer pleaded guilty today to falsifying traffic citations in order to collect overtime pay, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. -A resident of Johnstown, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute a quantity of cocaine base, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former IRS employee has been indicted by a federal grand jury for stealing refunds from taxpayers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Daniel King, age 68, of Marion, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady upon his plea of guilty to receipt of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: SEATTLE - The swift actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents likely saved the life of a man arrested during a drug operation conducted by HSI’s High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force (HHTF), Sept. 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Manuel A. Gonzalez, 49, a Mexican national residing in Bosque, New Mexico, appeared in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico yesterday for an initial appearance on a criminal complaint charging him with importation of a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: BOSTON-John H. Nardozzi, the certified public accountant for former State Senator Brian Joyce, was convicted today by a federal jury for conspiring with the late senator to defraud the IRS from 2011 through 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Sabotage: The Trump Administration’s Attack on Health Care."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Met 16-Year-Old Victim Through 'Game of War' App on Her Cell Phone.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - An indictment including high-ranking member of the Governing “Table" of the L.A. Program of MS-13 from New York, California, Virginia, and Tennessee was unsealed Wednesday following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) working in coordination with HSI field offices in Los Angeles, Nashville, DC/Virginia, and Charlotte.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Daniel King, age 68, of Marion, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady upon his plea of guilty to receipt of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Legislation to Reverse the Youth Tobacco Epidemic:"
