News from January 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the announcement by Rep. John Lewis, D-GA, that he is undergoing treatment for stage 4 pancreatic cancer...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: (BELLE FOURCHE, SD.) - The Bureau of Land Management has opened a public comment period as part of the process to prepare an Environmental Assessment for two livestock water pipelines within the Ft. Meade Recreation Area near Sturgis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that DOUGLAS ALEXANDER RIVAS, 37, a citizen of El Salvador, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to illegal reentry by a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Tampa - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announced today that the Middle District of Florida (MDFL) collected $98,607,097 in locally handled criminal and civil actions in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2019 (FY 2019). Of this amount, $79,862,063 was collected in local civil actions and $18,745,043 was collected in criminal actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A grand jury today returned an indictment that charges Daniel A. Betty, 27, of the 100 block of S. 29th Street, Decatur, Ill., with sexual exploitation and enticement of a minor and receiving child pornography in September 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Electrical utility workers at the Hanford Site have begun using a system that reconditions, or purifies, used oil, reducing environmental waste and saving money - an estimated $2.5 million over the next five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Camdenton, Missouri, man who was scheduled to go to trial yesterday, instead pleaded guilty to a $78,000 fraud scheme in which he used his victim’s credit cards without authorization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A New Jersey man arrested by Rhode Island State Police and Homeland Security Investigations on Sunday after he traveled to Rhode Island to allegedly engage in sexual activity with a person he believed to be a 9th grade girl he befriended online has been ordered detained in federal custody...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: United States Files False Claims Act Complaint against Community Health Network.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Lovell, WY: What do wildlife, mining, sacred sites, grazing, and recreation all have in common? Public Lands. Fifty-four percent of Wyoming lands are public. Public lands affect each person in the state, emotionally and economically. Yet because different people have different priorities for the use of public lands (think: wolves, Native American lands and sacred sites, or wildlife migration corridors) discussions of public lands can be controversial.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management is initiating an environmental assessment to analyze the San Emidio II - North Valley Geothermal Development Project proposed by Ormat Technologies Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: CONCORD- Christopher Mann, 35, of Manchester, was sentenced on Monday to 120 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm after a felony conviction, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for participating in a scheme that used secret card-reading devices and pinhole cameras on various New York and New Jersey bank locations to steal at least $390,141.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - DEA Special Agent in Charge Robert J. Bell and United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin Scott C. Blader announced that William Huff, 54, of St. Paul, Minnesota, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to five years in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Huff pleaded guilty to this charge on Sept. 25, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX), Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), and Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is unconstitutional...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that GARY JOSEPH GRAVELLE, also known as Roland Prejean, 52, last residing in New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to seven charges related to his threatening...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
Release: ELMIRA, N.Y. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is holding a one-day “Express" recruitment event on Wednesday, Jan. 22, to assist individuals interested in applying for a job as a TSA officer at Elmira Corning Regional Airport.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Pocatello, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management’s Pocatello Field Office (PFO) is moving forward with three specific recreational enhancements in southeast Idaho and is seeking public comment related to the projects. These projects include:.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Defendant Admits Violations and Accepts Responsibility in Consent Decree; Agrees to Injunctive Relief, including Medical Monitoring, and a $575,000 Penalty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: A Tulsa man has been charged by Criminal Complaint for allegedly reporting that a drive-up nuclear suitcase bomb would be detonated at Tulsa International Airport, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
