News from January 2020
By DOE Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today at the Washington Auto Show, Under Secretary of Energy Mark W. Menezes announced the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) investment of nearly $300 million in funding for research and development of sustainable transportation resources and technologies. This investment, split up between ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chair Paul Tonko (D-NY) today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler demanding answers for the dramatic increase in the backlog of unfunded cleanup projects at Superfund program sites under the Trump Administration.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) responded to the Trump Administration’s announcement that it will rollback clean water protections...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Saul Giovanni Solis Ontiveros, 24, of Pixley, and Eduardo Garcia, 20, of McFarland, charging them with conspiring to distribute more than 160 pounds of methamphetamine and approximately 300 fentanyl pills, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Seattle - A repeat offender who was arrested in Pioneer Square armed with a concealed pistol with hollow point bullets, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 101 months in prison and five years of supervised release. JONATHAN RUSHING, 40, was convicted in October 2019 following a three-day...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chair Paul Tonko (D-NY) today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler demanding answers for the dramatic increase in the backlog of unfunded cleanup projects at Superfund program sites under the Trump Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, Barney Clarence Knotts, 74, who was residing in Hope Hull, Alabama at the time of his arrest, received a ten-year sentence for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Following his prison sentence, Knotts will be subject to supervised release for the rest of his life.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Defendant testified at trial that Insys targeted “pill mills" to push fentanyl-based opioid.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland political consultant pleaded guilty today to conspiring to funnel more than $15,000 through straw donors into a campaign for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated five Texas counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Austin, Colorado, Crockett, Fayette, and Fisher counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CYRUS BRADFORD, 43, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former Vice President of Sales of Insys Therapeutics was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a nationwide conspiracy to bribe medical practitioners to unnecessarily prescribe a fentanyl-based pain medication and defraud healthcare insurers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - The Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office today honored 35 police officers and federal agents for outstanding work in support of significant federal violent crime prosecutions. Recipients included police officers from Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, City of Hyattsville, Montgomery County, Prince George’s County, Prince William County, Virginia, and the University Park Police Department; and federal agents from ATF, DEA, FBI, and HSI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Marqui M. Newton (28, Tampa) to 3 years and 10 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The court also ordered Newton to forfeit the firearm and ammunition used in the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession with the intent to distribute heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOHN GERACI was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 24 months in prison for conspiring to commit securities and wire fraud. GERACI participated in a scheme to defraud investors in his company...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, La. - AMIN SULUKI, age 38, a resident of Burlington, North Carolina, was sentenced to (60) sixty months’ imprisonment and (4) four years of supervised release after pleading guilty to a one-count Superseding Bill of Information charging him with conspiracy to distribute and possess with...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky.- A Petersburg, Kentucky man, Craig Jeremy Harp, who was previously convicted of possession of crystal methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison Thursday, by U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Defendant sentenced for his role in bribing practitioners to prescribe highly addictive pain medication, often when medically unnecessary.
