News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Received and Repackaged Misbranded Drugs at a Warehouse in Queens.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Suffolk man was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Federal agencies are encouraged to donate surplus computers and associated equipment to educational organizations. In the spirit of promoting technology in local schools, Buffalo National River (BNR) recently donated 47 computers, 20 monitors,12 laptops and a server to the Ozark Mountain School District, which includes Bruno-Pyatt, St. Joe and Western Grove.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: LONDON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York, with the assistance of HSI’s attaché office in London and London’s Metropolitan Police Service, kicked off the first meeting of the Virtual Global Cultural Property Task Force (VGCPTF). This taskforce...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Dear Inspector General Linick: On May 9, 2019, we wrote to the Department of State (Department) seeking information about the Oct. 11, 2016, meeting between Christopher Steele, Orbis Intelligence employee Tatyana Duran, then-Deputy Assistant Secretary Kathleen Kavalec, and then-Special Envoy Jonathan...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Francisco Castaneda Rivera has been sentenced to federal prison for transporting 4.24 kilograms of heroin from Texas to the Atlanta area hidden inside a car battery.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today hailed the House passage of three bills to protect the Atlantic, Pacific, and Eastern Gulf of Mexico coastlines from offshore drilling and to block the Republican push for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The House just passed...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: An 18-count third superseding indictment was filed today in federal court in Brooklyn, charging three members of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, variously with racketeering, murder, attempted murder, murder conspiracy, robberies and related firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - DEA New England Field Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Nicholas Messina, 28, of Haverhill, Mass, was sentenced to 72 months in prison for possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking and possessing controlled substances with intent to distribute.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The line running through the past, present and into the future of the Hanford Site is filled with markers of success.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former accountant pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with a $2 million wire fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The former Assistant Director of Real Estate working for the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with accepting $50,000 in bribes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND-Miguel Marines, 25, of East Chicago, Indiana, and a member of the Chicago-based Latin Kings, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Philip P. Simon to 66 months in prison and 2 years of supervised release following his guilty plea to conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Electric bicycles (e-bikes) are appearing in national parks with greater frequency. E-bikes advance Healthy Parks Healthy People goals to promote parks as a health resource by supporting a healthy park experience that is accessible, desirable, and relatable to people of all abilities, and by minimizing human impact through the expansion of active transportation options in parks. Specifically, e-bikes can.
By State Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today subpoenaed Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad to testify at an open hearing of the Committee next Thursday, September 19th. Chairman Engel issued this subpoena after the Department of State ignored numerous requests for briefings by Khalilzad about the Afghanistan peace plan and the Administration’s path forward in that country.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $26 million in funding for 13 projects as part of the Aerodynamic Turbines, Lighter and Afloat, with Nautical Technologies and Integrated Servo-control (ATLANTIS) program. These teams will develop new technologies for floating, offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) using the discipline of control co-design (CCD).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced today that two Waupun men were federally indicted for their involvement in three armed bank robberies in Waukesha, Washington, and Sheboygan Counties in 2019. Justin S. Smith, age 36, and William D. Balgie, age 35, were charged with committing robberies on the following dates at the following locations.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: NEWS RELEASE. Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. Wright Brothers National Memorial. Sept. 12, 2019. Ocracoke vehicle owners asked to remove vehicles from NPS parking lot at the boat ramps by 12:00 p.m. on Monday, 9/16/19, to facilitate recovery efforts. Agencies, including...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Defendants Deceived Elderly Investors into Purchasing Stock at Inflated Prices.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA, MONT. - As days become shorter and temperatures drop, the Montana Department of Natural Resources & Conservation (DNRC) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) encourage hunters and campers to be cautious with their warming or campfires. Despite the changing weather conditions, vegetation will dry back out this fall and a spark from a warming or campfire could ignite a destructive wildfire.
