News published on Federal Newswire in November 2018

News from November 2018


News Release: WASHINGTON - A former employee of the District of Columbia Public Schools and a business owner, her longtime friend, pled guilty today to a federal mail fraud charge stemming from a bid-rigging scheme involving a government contract valued at nearly $300,000.



Former D.C. Schools Employee and Business Owner Plead Guilty to Federal Charge in Bid-Rigging Scheme

News Release: Schools Employee Helped Steer Nearly $300,000 Contract to Her Friend.


Worcester Man Pleads Guilty to Fentanyl, Cocaine and Firearm Charges

News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to drug and firearm charges.


Worcester Man Pleads Guilty to Fentanyl, Cocaine and Firearm Charges

News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to drug and firearm charges.


News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced bank robbers Donald Marcel Rivers, Jr., age 30; Ashley Nicole Collier, age 31; and Timothy Mclain, age 29; all of Hagerstown, Maryland, to 14 years, 90 months, and 84 months and one day in prison, respectively, each followed by five...


News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Acadia Annual Passes will be on sale for $28 during most of the month of December. Passes must be obtained in person. No phone orders will be taken. On December 7, during Bar Harbor’s Midnight Madness event, passes will be available at the Village Green from 8 pm to midnight.


Private Exporters Report Sales Activity for Egypt

Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 120,000 metric tons of soft red winter wheat for delivery to Egypt during the 2018/2019 marketing year.


Hartford Man Charged with Federal Offenses Stemming from Drug-Related Shooting

News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Hartford Police Chief David Rosado, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned a four-count indictment charging RANDY PARKMAN, 41, of Hartford, with robbery and firearm offenses.


News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Todd Jones, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to eight months incarceration for his involvement in methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin distribution that spanned multiple states, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.


News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Polo, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a $4.3 million conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine and heroin throughout Clay, Ray, Clinton and Buchanan counties.


ICE detainee passes away at local hospital

News Release: TACOMA, Wash. - Mergensana Amar, 40, a Russian national in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was removed from life support Saturday afternoon, after attempting to take his own life on Nov. 15.


Former California State Assemblyman Indicted For Fraud Scheme Involving BART Coffee Shops

News Release: OAKLAND - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment against defendant Terrence Patrick Goggin with four counts of wire fraud and nine counts of money-laundering, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, Internal Revenue Service Special Agent in Charge Tara Sullivan, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.


U.S. Attorney Liu Announces Initiative to Combat Elder Abuse and Financial Exploitation

News Release: Initiative is Part of Nationwide Effort Led by U.S. Department of Justice.


News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement...


News Release: BOSTON - A former Army Reservist was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for stealing six machine guns and 10 handguns from a U.S. Army Reserve facility, escaping from federal prison, and attempting to rob two banks.


News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHRISTIAN TORO and TYLER TORO pled guilty to manufacturing and possessing a destructive device, and conspiring to do so, in connection with their stockpiling of explosive materials and manufacture of...


NIST Simulations Suggest Graphene Can Stretch to Be a Tunable Ion Filter

News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have conducted simulations suggesting that graphene, in addition to its many other useful features, can be modified with special pores to act as a tunable filter or strainer for ions (charged atoms) in a liquid.


News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Hartford Police Chief David Rosado, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned a four-count indictment charging RANDY PARKMAN, 41, of Hartford, with robbery and firearm offenses.


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Chapmanville man pled guilty today to drug and firearm charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Courtney Edward Dalton, 39, entered his guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking before United States District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the U.S. 119 Task Force and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).