News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation and Escape from Custody was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division hosted a roundtable September 23rd, 2019 for community organizations to discuss the problem of racial and national origin discrimination in housing, U.S. Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York man today admitted participating in a scheme that involved the creation of false documentation to secure over $4 million in bank loans, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s final overtime rule which- compared to the Obama Administration rule the Trump Administration abandoned-covers millions fewer workers and pays them less.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Wichita, Kansas, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Donald Morang, a/k/a “DW," 39, formerly of Augusta, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., to two years in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute heroin; cocaine base, commonly known as “crack;" and fentanyl. Morang pled guilty on Oct. 17, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that brothers Salvatore Esposito (47, Orlando) and Joseph Esposito (43, Orlando) have agreed to plead guilty to an Information charging them with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud. Each faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. Their initial appearances and change of plea hearings have been scheduled for Oct. 2, 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM crews safely and compliantly sent the 500th shipment of transuranic (TRU) waste from the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) since the disposal facility reopened and resumed receiving waste in April 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As EM marks its 30-year anniversary this year, past and present congressional and DOE leaders recently gathered on Capitol Hill to discuss efforts to build on the cleanup program’s longstanding record of results.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced a federal criminal complaint against RAY GHANSHAM PERSAUD, 20, for calling in bomb threats to the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.[1] PERSAUD was arrested this morning and will make his initial appearance today at 2:00 pm before Magistrate Judge David T. Schultz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management will host several volunteer events throughout Central California in honor of the 25th annual National Public Lands Day, “Connecting to Nature through Service."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A real estate agent recruiter was arrested today on charges stemming from a scheme to inflate sales commissions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged 18 individuals in conspiracies to distribute kilogram quantities of heroin, launder money back to Mexico and run a fake immigration identification business.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Meetings begin with a safety message, shifts begin with a safety briefing, and signs with safety reminders are located across the EM Hanford Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Mark Peppers, age 35, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. for possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released an update to the National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP). The NECP is the nation’s strategic plan for coordinating and advancing emergency communications to establish and maintain operability, interoperability, and continuity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: A Columbia, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to his role in making preparations to launch a terrorist attack with persons he believed were members of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), but who were actually undercover law enforcement employees.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Visitors to the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge may notice some heavy equipment activity on the southwest side of the Central Operable Unit - also referred to as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) Rocky Flats Site, Colorado - located in the center of the refuge.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: MOAB, UT- The National Park Service will temporarily close the Windows road at Arches National Park on Oct. 1, 2019, for construction work.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Carlsbad Field Office is seeking volunteers for its upcoming National Public Lands Day event on Sept. 27 & 28. In recognition of this annual observance, the BLM will conduct a variety of maintenance work on BLM land located along the Black River.
