News from October 2019
By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released a study today showing taxpayers are footing the bill for millions in administrative costs for harmful work requirements with little oversight from the Trump Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on October 7, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Special agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration arrested an Anchorage nurse practitioner and a Soldotna doctor on separate federal narcotics charges, which allege that they illegally distributed large amounts of opioids and other powerful narcotics by writing prescriptions for "patients" without medical examinations and lacking medical necessity. Federal law enforcement officials executed multiple search warrants in both cases yesterday.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released a study today showing taxpayers are footing the bill for millions in administrative costs for harmful work requirements with little oversight from the Trump Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky.- Roberto Bernal Salas, 32, pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing and intending to distribute three kilograms of cocaine and 122 gram of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Maximo Gondres-Medrano, age 35, of Baltimore, Maryland, after a three-day trial for the federal charge of possession with intent to distribute more than 400 grams of fentanyl and heroin. The jury returned its verdict late on October 9, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Brittany Berry, age 25, of Cortland, New York, pled guilty today to one count of conspiracy to sexually exploit a child and five counts of sexual exploitation of a child, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio today, 38-year-old Charles Lee Bethany admitted to distributing crack cocaine on the city’s east side, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Fred Milanowski, Houston Division; and, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Provided This Victim with Fentanyl, as well as Methamphetamine and Cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: For the past several years, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial has been engaged in a project to perpetuate the Lincoln cushaw squash - a variety that is known to have been grown by Thomas Lincoln in Indiana. We have also encouraged the public to participate by taking seeds and planting their own squash.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL), and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement applauding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed ruled to reduce lead in the nation’s drinking water.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 24 Ohio counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers who suffered losses due to excessive rain and flooding that occurred from Jan. 1 through Aug. 20, 2019, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Washington-Today, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, sent a letter conveying a subpoena to Secretary of Energy Rick Perry for key documents by Oct. 18, 2019, as part of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL), and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement applauding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed ruled to reduce lead in the nation’s drinking water.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Three Savannah men will spend a total of nearly 34 years in federal prison after sentencing for a drug trafficking conspiracy and firearms crimes discovered after a high-speed chase with Georgia state troopers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: For Being A Felon In Possession Of A Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: FBI Uniform Crime Report Shows 19% Drop in Firearms-Related Violent Crime in western Pennsylvania in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Knowledge Sharpe, age 19, of Baltimore Maryland, to 12 ½ years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine, and for assaulting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that Christina Short, 43, of Speedway, Indiana, was arrested and charged with wire fraud for perpetrating a multi-year scheme to steal over $450,000 from the charitable foundation where she worked.
