News published on Federal Newswire in November 2018

News from November 2018


The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: LOS ANGELES - United States Attorney Nick Hanna is presenting awards today to more than 200 members of law enforcement agencies for their outstanding work in dozens of cases prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office. During the office’s annual Law Enforcement Awards ceremony, officials from federal and local agencies - as well as six Canadian police officers - are being honored for their work in rooting out criminal wrongdoing in Southern California.


DEA New England Field Division collects 40 tons of prescription drugs during the 16th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

News Release: BOSTON - The final tally is in from the 16th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Oct. 27, 2018. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England Field Division and its partners, over the course of four hours, collected 80,277.68 pounds or 40 tons of expired, unused, and unwanted prescription...



News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Lilly, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of securities fraud, wire fraud, and filing false income tax returns, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.


News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A former resident of West Mifflin, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a federal narcotics charge, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.


News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Bobby Mataara Owens, 41, of Turangi, New Zealand, was sentenced on Wednesday in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to five years in prison and by ten years of supervised release for transporting child pornography. Owens pleaded guilty on Sept. 1, 2017.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced its approval of short-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the Corpus Christi Liquefaction Project to non-free trade agreement countries over a two-year period., issued to Cheniere Marketing, LLC and Corpus Christi Liquefaction...


Vallejo Business Owner Sentenced For Multimillion Dollar Mortgage And Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Scheme

News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sergio Roman Barrientos, 64, of Poway, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to 14 years in prison for conspiring to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution and bank fraud, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.


Vallejo Business Owner Sentenced for Multi-Million-Dollar Mortgage and Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Scheme

News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sergio Roman Barrientos, 64, of Poway, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to 14 years in prison for conspiring to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution and bank fraud, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.


Chambersburg Man Sentenced to 10 Years’ Imprisonment for Sex Trafficking a Minor

News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Keanu Davone Martinez, age 22, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Nov. 1, 2018, by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to 10 years’ imprisonment for transporting a minor for the purposes of committing commercial sex acts.


Man Pleads Guilty to Robbery of Metairie Bank

News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced yesterday that STEPHEN J. SCOTT, age 31, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty as charged to committing the robbery of the First American Bank & Trust at 1800 Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie, Louisiana, on April 9, 2018, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a).


Armed Defendant Located by Police in a Stolen Vehicle Receives 41 Months in Federal Prison

News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that United States District Court Judge William H. Steele sentenced Rex James Thompson on Nov. 1, 2018 to serve a term of imprisonment of 41 months followed by 3 years of supervised release for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm in violation of Title 18 USC § 922(g)(1). The defendant’s guilty plea was accepted by the Court on July 27, 2018.


News Release: German Shipping Operator Sentenced to Pay $3.2 Million for Obstruction of Justice and Falsifying Official Logs to Hide Deliberate Oil Pollution.


News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park invites the public to walk approximately two miles along the new section of the Foothills Parkway between Walland and Wears Valley on Thursday, November 8 for a Community Day celebration.This is a special opportunity for pedestrians to experience the series of bridges that connect the 1.65-mile section known as the ‘Missing Link’ before it opens to motorists and cyclists on Saturday, November 10.


News Release: CINCINNATI - Eugene Mongar, 34, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to participating in a narcotics conspiracy in the Middletown Jail.


Wyden Finds Nursing Homes Unprepared for Natural Disasters

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today unveiled a report.pdf) examining critical safety failures at nursing homes in Texas and Florida during and after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The report found that these incidents, which in Florida resulted in the deaths...


News Release: LOS ANGELES - United States Attorney Nick Hanna is presenting awards today to more than 200 members of law enforcement agencies for their outstanding work in dozens of cases prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office. During the office’s annual Law Enforcement Awards ceremony, officials from federal and local agencies - as well as six Canadian police officers - are being honored for their work in rooting out criminal wrongdoing in Southern California.


News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Sedalia, Mo., man was convicted by a federal trial jury today of his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and prescription opioids.