News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The president of a staffing company was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for defrauding a commercial finance lending company out of more than $400,000, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy & Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Legislation to Stop the Onslaught of Annoying Robocalls:"
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - The ninth of ten individuals charged in a series of indictments, informations, and criminal complaints filed in U.S. District Court in Providence for their alleged participation in conspiracies and schemes to steal and use the personal identifying information of others to defraud banks, finance companies, car dealerships and retailers, has been arrested and has been ordered detained in federal custody.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy & Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Legislation to Stop the Onslaught of Annoying Robocalls:"
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Dr. George P. Naum, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was found guilty today of illegally distributing controlled substances, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MICHAEL DAVIS, also known as “Clep," “Clip," and “Michael Smith," 33, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to firearm and narcotics offenses.
By State Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today applauded Senate confirmation of R. Clarke Cooper to be Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs. Cooper was confirmed by a vote of 90-8.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today that Desmond T. Burns (age: 40) of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, appeared in federal court in Green Bay and was sentenced to 20 years in prison for distributing fentanyl that resulted in the overdose deaths of four...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced that it is seeking public nominations for positions on 31 Resource Advisory Councils (RACs) nationwide, including five vacancies in Alaska. These citizen-based committees assist in the development of recommendations that address public land management issues.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FL --- Work to clear Elliott Key’s “Spite Highway" was completed last week allowing visitors to once again enjoy the historical hiking trail. The trail had been closed to visitors since September 2017 due to fallen trees and debris left by Hurricane Irma.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) and Tom Udall (D - N.M.), top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, released a letter from the Environmental Protection ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: $5.9 Million in DOJ Grant Funding for a Variety of Programs Designed by Tribal Partners.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: A Miami man was sentenced to six and one-half years in prison for maintaining two separate storage units that contained over 5,000 images of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On April 29, 2019, William Starr Schwartz, 54, of Meadview, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 24 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Schwartz was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $22,655 to the National Fish...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Airports are flooded with people and cargo around the clock. For security practitioners, it could seem impossible to catch everything that happens in such a wide open, but extremely crowded space. Stadiums and other large, public venues require near-perfect surveillance systems to do so. For most locations...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
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 DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: Defendant Arrested Minutes After the Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray today announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - DANA ALVAREZ, age 49, a resident of Holden, Louisiana, pled guilty Thursday, April 25, 2019 to conspiracy to defraud the United States with regard to tax returns announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ISAIAH HALLIDAY, 19, of Hartford, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to robbery and firearm offenses related to a scheme that victimized several individuals who sought to purchase items over mobile classifieds web apps.
