News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Cyrus A. Free, an enrolled member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. to life imprisonment for sexually abusing a child on the Winnebago Indian Reservation. Free will be required to register as a sex offender for the remainder of his life.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: MOAB, UT-Join the National Park Service (NPS) on October 15 to learn about efforts to address traffic congestion and improve the visitor experience at Arches National Park. At this meeting, park staff will discuss plans to further study visitor experience, transportation alternatives and traffic patterns.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City woman employed by the Hudson County Office of Aging today admitted accepting bribes for referring patients in need of home health care aides, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 30, 2019, Ruben Esparza, an inmate formerly of the United States Penitentiary Allenwood, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Mathew W. Brann for possession of contraband.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A citizen of Mexico faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty Oct. 1 to conspiring to import marijuana into the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A City of Paterson police officer today admitted conspiring with other officers to violate the civil rights of individuals in Paterson, using unreasonable and excessive force, and filing a false police report to conceal his criminal activity, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) issued the following statement today after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia vacated part of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2017 rules that repealed net neutrality protections and opened the door for states to pass net neutrality laws...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Janet Flores, 44, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Defendant Illegally Entered the United States at Least 4 Times over Past 17 Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - One resident of Florida and another resident of New Jersey pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiring to distribute kilograms of cocaine and possession with intent to distribute kilograms of cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Jose Mario Moreno Parada (37, Naples) to eight years and four months in federal prison for smuggling goods from the United States, possessing firearms with obliterated serial numbers, and making false statements to federal agents. The court also ordered Parada to forfeit the firearms involved in the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI Offers $20,000 Reward in Tara Calico Case.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation today announced interest rates for October 2019, which are effective October 1-Oct. 31, 2019. The Commodity Credit Corporation borrowing rate-based charge for October is 1.750 percent, down from 1.875 percent in September.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: The Memorial Visitor Center at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial will be closed Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, in observance of the federal holiday, Columbus Day. The park grounds, however, will remain open so that visitors can enjoy the park trails, visit the pioneer cemetery and view the living historical farm as an exhibit in place. The visitor center will reopen on Tuesday, October 15 and will be open from 7:00am to 3:00pm.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) is seeking further details on the Democrat plan to “achieve a 100 percent clean economy by 2050." In a letter to Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Walden requests further information on the goals of the proposal and the means to achieve those goals, and calls for bipartisan solutions to protect the economy and the environment.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Workers at EM’s Paducah Site recently removed approximately 60,000 cubic feet of excess equipment and other things stored at the C-740 Material Yard, one of the site’s largest storage yards. This volume of material is enough to fill nearly three large houses.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Rock Springs Wild Horse Holding Facility will be temporarily closed beginning Oct. 14, 2019. The closure is in support of the wild horse gather operations in the “Fifteenmile" Herd Management Area in Worland.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Rep. Raul Ruiz, M.D. (D-CA) released the following joint statement today following the release of a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which the two lawmakers requested in 2017, finding significant increases in health...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) is seeking further details on the Democrat plan to “achieve a 100 percent clean economy by 2050." In a letter to Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Walden requests further information on the goals of the proposal and the means to achieve those goals, and calls for bipartisan solutions to protect the economy and the environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute more than four kilograms of methamphetamine in Greene County, Mo.
