News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Alfredo Veloso, 43, of Miami, today admitted to opening bank accounts, and to recruiting others to open bank accounts, as a conduit for stolen funds in connection with a wide-ranging international money laundering operation for business email compromise and other cyber-schemes. Veloso also admitted to selling reptiles without a license, in violation of the Lacey Act.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Necropsy results from a dead bald eagle found near Lower McDonald Creek in February in Glacier National Park have determined that it died of lead poisoning. Park biologists sent the carcass to the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, WI, for further evaluation after an initial assessment did not show evidence of gunshot or other obvious signs of trauma.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement for the markup of H.R. 2376, the Prescription Pricing for the People Act of 2019...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on President Trump’s recently announced decision to nominate the seven members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico for Senate approval. The decision comes in the wake of a First Circuit Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Jonathan D. Larsen, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Downloadable file: PORTLAND, Ore.-Shawn Terrell Crane, 39, of Portland, was sentenced today to 168 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for conspiring to distribute oxycodone and laundering drug proceeds. The case against Crane is the result of a lengthy FBI and Portland Police...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Ohio County Magistrate Harry A. Radcliffe, III, has admitted to tax fraud, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Former CEO of Hospital Chain to Pay $3.46 Million to Resolve False Billing and Kickback Allegations.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The U.S. Department of Energy, Israel’s Ministry of Energy, and the Israel Innovation Authority have announced a $16 million Call for Proposals of the U.S.-Israel Center of Excellence in Energy, Engineering and Water Technology (Energy Center ). Commercial companies, research institutes, and universities from the U.S. and Israel are encouraged to form consortia of at least two unrelated entities from each country and apply for these awards.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY-The Department of the Interior will conduct a second Macroinvertebrate Production Flow this summer at Glen Canyon Dam under its Long-Term Experimental and Management Plan. This experiment, also known as a Bug Flow, aims to improve egg-laying conditions for aquatic insects that are the primary food source for fish in the Colorado River. The experiment will begin on May 1 and continue through Aug. 31, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - A federal grand jury here has returned indictments against a former Dayton city commissioner, a current city official and two Dayton businessmen, charging them with fraud and public corruption.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Travion Lindsey, 20, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 108 months in prison for armed robbery charges. He appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
Release: Congressman José E. Serrano (D-NY), Chair of the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's oversight hearing on 2020 Census preparation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States District Judge Joseph H. McKinley sentenced James D. Armes to 50 years of imprisonment on Friday, and a lifetime of supervised release, for multiple counts of production and distribution of child pornography, and possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Travion Lindsey, 20, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 108 months in prison for armed robbery charges. He appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released this statement following his meeting with President Trump and Congressional leaders at the White House...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Jeffrey Farrell Davis, 36, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced to 120 months in prison yesterday, 25 years of supervised release, $3,000 victim restitution, and a $5,000 special assessment pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act. In March 2018, Davis pleaded guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Kirk David Blank (50, Largo) to nine years in federal prison for transporting child pornography. The court also ordered Blank to pay $10,000 in restitution to the victims of his offense and to forfeit the electronic devices that he had used in the commission of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Aurora Police Department Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today unveiled a groundbreaking report, A Case for Rural Broadband: Insights on Rural Broadband Infrastructure and Next Generation Precision Agriculture Technologies (PDF, 2.5 MB). The report finds that deployment of both broadband e-Connectivity and Next Generation Precision Agriculture Technology on farms and ranches throughout the U.S. could result in at least $47 billion in national economic benefits every year.
