News from January 2020
By DOE Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM recently awarded Oak Ridge cleanup contractor UCOR $20.4 million for its performance from April 2019 through September 2019, amounting to 97 percent of the available fee.
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: TYLER, Texas - A 51-year-old Edgewood, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking crimes in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Mesa Verde National Park is planning to implement a prescribed fire between January 13 to March 29, 2020, weather permitting. The Chapin Mesa area prescribed fire is being conducted to dispose of material created during fuel reduction projects from last summer.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Deactivation and remediation workers with Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership (FRNP), the prime cleanup contractor at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PGDP), recently surpassed one million work hours without a lost-time accident or illness.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - TYRONE LEROY OUTLEY, 27, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 360 months in prison for possessing crack cocaine with intent to distribute, as well as possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Edmond Dewayne Miller, 22, of Meridian, pled guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to narcotics trafficking in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today that Dr. Jayam Krishna Iyer has agreed to pay the United States $102,126.98 to resolve allegations that she violated the False Claims Act while practicing as a pain management physician. These civil claims are related to Iyer’s guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to narcotics trafficking in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Curwensville, Pa., was indicted on January 7, 2020, by a federal grand jury on a charge of violating federal firearms and ammunition laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a markup on Thursday, January 9, at 10 a.m. in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The Subcommittee will mark up nine bills to improve energy efficiency, promote clean energy, increase energy sector jobs and modernize our energy infrastructure.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: What: The U.S. Census Bureau will hold a news conference to kick off the 2020 Census. Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham will give an update on the first enumeration in Toksook Bay, Alaska, which begins on Jan. 21. Alaska’s vast, sparsely settled northern areas are traditionally the first to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two New Jersey men were today sentenced to prison terms for their respective roles in using phony monetary instruments to obtain luxury vehicles and other high value items; one of the defendants was additionally convicted of bankruptcy fraud, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: OAKLAND - Donta Lashaun Perry was sentenced today to 60 months and one day in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for possessing firearms in connection with drug trafficking, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Rayfield Roundtree. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Jeffrey S. White, U.S. District Judge.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 14, at 10:30 am in 2322 of the Rayburn House Office...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released an updated roster of Committee republicans, including new member Senator Kelly Loeffler from Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced yesterday that Chad Skirvin, age 38, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was sentenced yesterday to 72 months in federal prison followed by fifteen years of supervised release on one count of Accessing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Indianapolis - The United States has filed a complaint against Community Health Network Inc. (Community) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, the Department of Justice announced today. Community, an integrated health care system in central Indiana, is alleged to have violated the Stark Law and thereby submitted false claims to the Medicare program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Duianete Moore, 38, of St. Louis City, MO, pleaded guilty to federal felony charges of robbery, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Moore appeared in federal court today before United States District Judge Ronnie L. White who accepted his plea and set his sentencing date for April 7, 2020.
