News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jonathan Allen Mowery, of Harman, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 70 months incarceration for distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Oct. 1, 2019 - Nicole C. Walker, 40, of Clarksville, Tennessee, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to three years in prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee. LaToya...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - After a week-long federal jury trial, James Jackson, 58, of Memphis, Tennessee was found guilty of 13 counts of mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, access device fraud and theft of mail. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the conviction today.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Washington-Today, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: The Medicare Fraud Strike Force (“MFSF") is part of a joint initiative between the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to reduce and prevent Medicare and Medicaid fraud through enhanced interagency cooperation. Its purpose is to focus on the worst offenders...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Deyao Chen, Guichun Chen, and Liangtu Pan a/k/a Liang Pan, all of the People’s Republic of China, have been charged by indictment with the following: conspiracy to import controlled substances (one count); conspiracy to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JAMAR SMITH, also known as “JT," 37, of Bridgeport, and JOHN FLANNERY, III, 29, of East Hartford, have been charged with various federal offenses related to the straw purchases of firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Montana/Dakotas raised over $340,000 in its quarterly oil and gas lease sale held online September 24. Nearly 50 percent of the revenue from the sale will go to the states where the oil and gas activity occurs - in this case Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota - while the rest will go to the U.S. Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- Federal and local law enforcement today arrested 5 of 12 defendants indicted in September as part of a conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine sourced from Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Some Firearms Found at Crime Scenes: "I Knew This Would Happen Eventually".
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of 35 projects totaling $73 million for bioenergy research and development (R&D). Funded through the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, these projects will help reduce the price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources.
By EPA 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 DOE 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: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar recently viewed EM’s cleanup progress at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) and received updates on the planned demolition of the site’s Main Plant Process Building, which was used to reprocess spent nuclear fuel decades ago. “This...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded air carrier and operator certification to an unmanned aircraft system (UAS, or drone) delivery company, UPS Flight Forward.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reminds travelers that the upcoming REAL ID requirement and enforcement will start one year from today. Beginning Oct. 1, 2020, every traveler must present a REAL ID-compliant driver’s license, state-issued enhanced driver’s license, or other...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the net neutrality ruling from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District, is preparing to conduct maintenance treatment on previously constructed fuelbreaks on BLM administered lands along the Sierra Front. Periodic retreatment is required in order to maintain fuelbreak effectiveness, resulting in enhanced...
By EPA 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 DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the net neutrality ruling from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals...
