News from September 2019
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: On Thursday, Oct. 3, at 7:00PM, Bighorn Canyon will host Johnny Tim Yellowtail, great-great grandson of Robert S. Yellowtail and a descendent of Chief Gray-Bull at the Cal S. Taggart Visitor Center in Lovell, WY. Johnny will be presenting a multimedia program and demonstration entitled “The Peyote Way, Native American Church" with the assistance of Adrian Bird, Jr., grandson of the late Sonny Blackeagle.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following remarks at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing titled, “Legislating to Secure America’s Wireless Future."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - William Francis Hickey III, age 43, of Elkton, Maryland, pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud trucking companies and logistical brokers of more than $1 million. The guilty plea was entered on Sept. 26, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: Director Christopher Wray Returns from Overseas Visit to South Korea and Japan.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced today a health care fraud law enforcement action in Detroit, Chicago and Minnesota. Charges were filed against 20 individuals in the Eastern District of Michigan for their alleged involvement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Brandon Lars Reed, 30, of Shreveport, was sentenced September 24 by Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr., to 110 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Reed pleaded guilty on March 11, 2019.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has finalized its June 27, 2017, proposal to revise the construction and shipyards standards.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - John Lamb, a/k/a Johnny Lamb, has been sentenced to federal prison for a second time for again using counterfeit checks for purchases from the United States Postal Service (USPS).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: Battle Mountain, NV - The Bureau of Land Management, Mount Lewis Field Office, has completed analysis of the Lander County Golf Course Reversionary Interest Direct Land Sale and has opened the 30-day comment period on the Environmental Assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - A former Dayton City Commissioner entered a guilty plea in U.S. District Court today for accepting a thing of value in connection with a local government.
By State Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C.-Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-NY) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee today released the following statement on ongoing protests in Egypt and reports of arbitrary detention of protestors and journalists...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A southeast Kansas man was sentenced Thursday to 27 years in Federal prison for producing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold a meeting of the Utah Resource Advisory Council (RAC) on Oct. 29-30, 2019, at the John Wesley Powell River History Museum in Green River, Utah. The meeting will take place from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 29 and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 30. The public is welcome to attend the meetings.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
Release: On Sept. 26, 2019 during his closing remarks at the National Tribal Energy Summit in D.C., Mark W. Menezes, Under Secretary of Energy announced that Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs issued a Notice of Intent to issue a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) entitled “Energy Infrastructure Development on Indian Lands - 2020”.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: Las Vegas - Wildland fire officials lifted seasonal fire restrictions on public lands in Southern Nevada managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Clark County, National Park Service, Nye County, Mt. Charleston Fire Protection District and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Sept. 27, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Anthony Allee, 28, and Tashira Allee, 36, both of Medina, NY, with maintaining a drug-involved premises, possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking, unlawful...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: More than a dozen defendants, including 10 physicians and other medical professionals, have been charged for their alleged participation in a massive healthcare fraud scheme responsible for - in the Southern District of Georgia alone - more than $400 million in losses to Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Benjamin Butler, age 33, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was charged on Sept. 26, 2019, with six counts of wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former pharmacy owner was sentenced today to four years in prison for fraudulently filling and dispensing thousands of prescription medications, including opioids, outside the usual course of professional practice.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 27, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 126,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
