News from November 2018
By DOL Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States has filed a complaint to forfeit $3,167,783 associated with a cooperating Singapore-based company (“Cooperating Company"); Apex Choice Ltd. (“Apex Choice"), a Chinese-based wax company; and Yuanye Wood Ltd. (“Yuanye Wood"), a Chinese-based wood company, announced U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie K. Liu and Michael DeLeon, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Phoenix Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: A Tulsa man, identified by law enforcement and prosecutors as being a “Top Ten" Alpha criminal, was sentenced today for participating in a methamphetamine and heroin distribution conspiracy and for possession of methamphetamine and heroin with intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the release of United Nations Emissions Gap report...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Daniel Coddington, age 64, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 120 months (10 years) in federal prison for wire and securities fraud, U.S. Attorney Jason R. Dunn and FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christopher Holbrook, 32, a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer, was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico, to 12 months and a day in prison followed by two years of supervised release for obstruction of justice, announced Eric Dreiband, Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Last week, Timothy Jason Wells, 31, of Kingman, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 37 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Wells had previously pleaded guilty to one count of felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Adam Sadlowski, 40, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 51 months in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. Sadlowski will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND -Eric P. Krieg, age 46, of Munster, Indiana, through his attorney, filed a signed agreement with the United States Attorney’s Office indicating his intent to plead guilty to knowingly making an unregistered destructive device, mailing a destructive device, malicious use of explosive materials, and mailing a threatening communication, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Mo., man who was arrested following a street shootout in a residential neighborhood pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: A Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based physician’s assistant pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to unlawfully distribute thousands of oxycodone pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of San Antonio, Texas, has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months incarceration on his conviction of Threatening Interstate Communications, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $24 million in new and renewal research awards to advance the development of sophisticated software for computer-based design of novel materials.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: By using light waves instead of electric current to transmit data, photonic chips-circuits for light-have advanced fundamental research in many areas from timekeeping to telecommunications. But for many applications, the narrow beams of light that traverse these circuits must be substantially widened...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Floyd Chase, 48, of Brewer, Maine, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to make false statements to a federal firearms licensee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Hutchinson woman was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison on drug and firearm charges, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging BELARMINO LORENZO-LOPEZ, age 25, of Guatemala, with possession of unlawfully obtained documents, aggravated identity theft...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced today to eight years in federal prison for brandishing a gun during a robbery at a local credit union, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah), Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón (R-Puerto Rico), U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) and U.S. Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) sent a letter to Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rossello Nevares, Puerto Rican Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz, and Puerto Rican House Speaker Carlos Mendez Nunez, regarding the next steps in resolving Puerto Rico’s political status.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2018
News Release: On Nov. 20, 2018, Jason Ford, a former teaching assistant and travel softball coach, pled guilty in South Florida to attempting to produce child pornography.
