News from September 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, sent a letter to Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Roseburg, Ore. -- Fire officials with the Douglas Forest Protective Association and the Bureau of Land Management, Roseburg District, will remove fire restrictions for the general public on Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 12:01 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Spanish authorities arrested a Chinese woman last night in connection with her role in using bribery and other forms of fraud to facilitate her son’s admission to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) as a purported soccer recruit.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - EM federal and contractor leaders from several sites highlighted major successes in the cleanup program during a panel session at this year’s National Cleanup Workshop.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Hanford Site Manager Brian Vance led a panel discussion about Hanford’s past, present, and future with leaders from the site’s major cleanup contractors during this year’s National Cleanup Workshop.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for defrauding the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) by providing military equipment parts that were not what he had contracted to provide and illegally accessing technical information as a non-United States citizen, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD")...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
Release: NANTUCKET, Ma. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is holding a one-day “fast track" recruitment event on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, to assist individuals interested in applying for a job as a TSA officer at Nantucket Memorial Airport (ACK).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Russell Harrison, 40, of Temple Hills, Md., was sentenced today to nine years in prison for possessing six firearms in furtherance of his participation in a drug trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Timothy M. Dunham, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Anthony Donta Jones (39, Atlanta) to 10 years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. Jones was found guilty on April 10, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Theodore Loria, 53, of Irondequoit, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with cyberstalking. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A tax preparer from Bergen County, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 72 months in prison for filing false federal income tax returns, stealing client refunds, and committing identity theft in connection with refunds stolen from a deceased taxpayer, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: The northern section of the Moose-Wilson Road, between the Murie Ranch Junction and the Death Canyon Junction, is temporary closed to the public, including motorists, cyclists, and hikers, due to bear activity. The duration of this closure is unknown.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Deontae Britton, 26, of Washington D.C., was sentenced on Friday to 22 years in prison for the murder of Dawud Debruhl near a playground and parking lot in Columbia Heights, Washington. U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) made the announcement today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - An illegal alien from Mexico, who was removed from the United States on April 2, 2018 and reentered the country without permission, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Roanoke to illegally reentering the United States without permission and transporting illegal aliens. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 18 indictments charging 19 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: SANTA FE, NM - The Bureau of Reclamation is one step closer to constructing a water system to bring safe, reliable drinking water to four Pueblos and parts of Santa Fe County under the Aamodt Litigation Settlement Agreement. Today, Reclamation’s Commissioner Brenda Burman joined settlement parties to...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM workers recently completed an important project, transferring 35 cubic yards of highly radioactive sludge from the K West Reactor fuel storage basin to T Plant, located on the Hanford Site ’s central plateau, for safe interim storage.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - Last week, Bo Lane, 36, of Coppermine, Ariz., was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 432 months in prison, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release, on seven counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, each count to run concurrently. Lane was found guilty of those counts by a federal jury on June 14, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Staples, Minnesota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition by a Felon and Drug User was sentenced on September 9, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
