News from October 2019
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: WALNUT GROVE, Calif. - Until further notice, the Bureau of Reclamation plans closing the Delta Cross Channel gates beginning 9 a.m. Wednesday, October 23 to help reduce winter-run Chinook salmon straying from the Sacramento River. National Marine Fisheries Service biologists have been monitoring fish migration in the river this fall. They notified Reclamation Tuesday that fish were entering the area in numbers that required the gates to be closed.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division will hold an event on November 7, 2019, to support the Department’s Place to Worship Initiative and raise awareness about federal law’s protection of faith communities in land...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Tevin Jerome Gaither, 29, of Hickory, N.C., was sentenced to 123 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release on drug trafficking and firearms offenses, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell presided over the sentencing hearing.
By State Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. -Today, all 21 House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) Republicans rebuked Adam Schiff in a letter after being denied access to impeachment related documents unless supervised by a House Intelligence Committee Democrat. The letter, led by Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), demanded Schiff turn over key impeachment related documents to HFAC or face further action.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Andre Ramon Washington, 47, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to 10 years in prison for possessing methamphetamine for distribution, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 54-year-old Mexican man who illegally remained in the United States after his temporary visa had expired was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Tuesday for receiving and possessing child pornography.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 10 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building entitled “Repurposing the C-Band to Benefit all Americans."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury today convicted two Chicago Police officers of fraudulently obtaining search warrants and stealing cash and drugs from properties they searched.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A federal grand jury in the District of Massachusetts returned a superseding indictment bringing additional charges against seven university athletic officials and others previously charged in the college admissions case today.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 22, 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 on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report detailing recommendations to improve cleanup efforts at the Department of Energy (DOE):
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) are raising concerns to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) about the Navigator program established under the Affordable Care Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Raul Everado Ledesma Abarca, 36, of San Diego, California, who was convicted following a jury trial of: conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine; possessing with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine; and maintaining a drug-involved premises, was sentenced to serve 324 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Census Bureau Officials Detail Effort to Hire 500,000 Temporary Workers Across the Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A federal grand jury in the District of Massachusetts returned a superseding indictment bringing additional charges against seven university athletic officials and others previously charged in the college admissions case today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that 33-year-old Christopher Thomas Howard, a/k/a Indy, of Fairbanks, Alaska, has been sentenced on charges of distributing over 74.9 grams of “pure" methamphetamine (“ice").
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Waterloo Police Find Gun in Car Following a High Speed Car Chase.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota voiced his support following an announcement today that the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on the Environment and Climate Change will review the nation’s biofuel-blending requirements, and specifically the Environmental Protection Agency’s granting of Small Refinery Exemption waivers and the Administration’s plans to reallocate those waived gallons of biofuel.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Heart Butte man who admitted providing a minor with methamphetamine on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 33 months in prison and to six years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - South Bay doctor Venkat Aachi was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for health care fraud and for distributing hydrocodone outside the scope of his professional practice and without a legitimate medical need, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Drug Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - This weekend the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will once again conduct one of its most popular community programs: National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday October 26 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. the public can dispose of their expired, unused, and unwanted prescription medications...
