News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Ryan Burns, 39, of Nashua, pleaded guilty to unlawfully possessing a firearm, announced United States Attorney Scott W. Murray.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jordan James, age 22, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 96 months’ imprisonment by Chief United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner, for distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Tammy Marie Steffen (37, Holiday) to four years and nine months in federal prison for cyberstalking and sending threatening communications online.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Adam B. Schiff, Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairman Elijah E. Cummings, Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, and Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot L. Engel issued the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: HOUGHTON, MICH- The Isle Royale fall wolf translocation project concluded on September 13 after successfully moving three wolves from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to the park. The new wolves, two males and one female, bolstered the total island wolf population to 17, which now includes nine males and eight females.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Under Secretary of Energy Mark W. Menezes, met with H.E. Thani Alzeyoudi, UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment. The two officials discussed UAE’s research and deployment efforts in renewable energy, desalination technology, and cooperation on clean energy, including nuclear energy and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Sergio Rijo-Feliz, 27, of St. Croix, was sentenced to 36 months of incarceration for possession of a firearm while under indictment by District Court Judge Wilma A. Lewis on Sept. 19, 2019. Judge Lewis also ordered Rijo-Feliz to pay a fine in the amount of $1,000.00, to supervised release for three years and to pay a special assessment of $100.00.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Socorro, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Socorro Field Office is seeking volunteers for its upcoming National Public Lands Day event on Sept. 28. In recognition of this annual observance, the BLM will conduct erosion control work on BLM land located within The Box Recreation Area.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, in conjunction with Lassen Volcanic National Park, invites the public to comment on a proposal to implement a dual park pass. The dual park pass will allow visitors to access both parks through the purchase of a single pass. This new pass will align the price of...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for the U.S. Building Sector." This is the third hearing in a series of climate change hearings aimed at achieving the Committee’s goal of a 100 percent clean economy by 2050...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Heidi Kalous, 39, of Dunedin was charged by indictment today, with conspiring to distribute a substance that contained a mixture of heroin and fentanyl, and distributing a substance that contained a mixture of heroin, fentanyl, and acetyl fentanyl, causing death. If convicted, Kalous faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 20 years, and up to life, in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of LORENZO EUGENE HEARD JR., 38, to one count of felon in possession of a firearm. HEARD entered his guilty plea on Sept. 19, 2019, before Judge David S. Doty, in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Allen Pernell Branch (32, Jacksonville) to five years and six months in federal prison for distributing crack cocaine. Branch’s brother, Brian Nathaniel Branch (33, Jacksonville), was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for distributing crack cocaine and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following floor statement in support of H.R. 1423, the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act (FAIR Act)...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: On Sept. 28, 2019, more than 150,000 volunteers across the country will join in trail maintenance and planting projects, trash pickups, and other activities aimed at restoring and caring for our public lands to celebrate the 26th annual National Public Lands Day (NPLD). Organized each year by the National...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced 32 winners for $56.5 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) projects for advanced coal technologies and research under six separate funding opportunity announcements (FOAs).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management’s Butte Field Office will temporarily close White Sandy Recreation Site on Hauser Lake for the season in order to remove a troublesome piling at the end of one of the boat docks.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: On Sept. 20, 2019, in the District of Wyoming, JUSTIN DAVID BROWN, age 27 of Riverton, Wyoming was sentenced to seven hundred twenty months in prison followed by lifetime-supervised release after pleading guilty to two counts of Production of Child Pornography. On January 4, 2019, the US Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of deprivation of civil rights, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) -The Bureau of Land Management Billings Field Office will be conducting prescribed burning in Musselshell County this month when fuel and weather conditions permit safe operations.
