News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - Former Rhode Island state senator and businessman James E. Doyle, II, 47, of Pawtucket, was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for engaging in a $74 million dollar check-kiting scheme in which he wrote tens of thousands of worthless checks, and failed to report more than...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: On the 100th day of the 116th Congress, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) highlighted the Committee’s activity up to this point of strengthening the economy, creating good paying jobs, providing much-needed relief to consumers, combating climate change and conducting robust oversight.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national and Lawrence man were arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The California Trail Interpretive Center is hosting a reception for its new temporary exhibit, “The Forgotten: The Chinese and the Transcontinental Railroad."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a grand jury sitting in Hartford has returned a superseding indictment charging ARNO SMITH, 56, of Hartford, with committing seven robberies and a carjacking last summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: A Delray Beach resident was sentenced today to a total of nine years in prison for being a felon in possession of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was arrested today and charged in federal court on fraud charges arising from his role overseeing UT Services, a Worcester employment agency.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO, Idaho - It’s time to get outside! The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will open the Chinese Peak-Blackrock Trail System on Monday, April 15, to motorized and mechanized travel (bicycling). The BLM Pocatello Field Office (PFO) closes the trail system annually from Nov. 16 through April 14 to protect wintering deer. Travel is limited to designated routes only and all routes without signs are closed.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today investments for the Coal FIRST (Flexible, Innovative, Resilient, Small, and Transformative) initiative, which aims to develop coal plants of the future that will provide secure, stable, reliable power with near zero emissions.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Stephen Jacques-Scott, age 33, of New York City, pled guilty yesterday to trafficking crack cocaine and fentanyl from New York City to Plattsburgh.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Approximately 22 Defendants Sentenced For Tax Fraud Since Last Filing Season.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of 10 years (120 months), to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, on his conviction of distribution of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Brandon Cory Lecroy, age 26, of Greenwood, South Carolina, was sentenced to ten years in the Federal Bureau of Prisons after pleading guilty to murder for hire. United States District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks of Charleston sentenced Lecroy to the statutory maximum for the offense, followed by three years of court-ordered supervision. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Fourteen Additional Defendants Have Been Charged To Date.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: PENDLETON, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation will begin incrementally increasing flood control releases out of McKay Dam in response to updated weather forecasts from the National Weather Service. Conditions are wetter than average with this being the fifth largest runoff currently during April. Outflows from the dam will be ramped up according to the schedule below...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Matthew A. Beaudion, 30, and Jessica N. Davis, 34, both of Monroe, entered guilty pleas Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen Hayes for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine in Ouachita Parish.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement after President Donald Trump and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai announced their strategy to strengthen America’s position in the race to 5G, support the next generation of wireless connectivity, and connect rural communities to digital opportunity.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: HONOLULU - Charles Kimo Brown, 60, a resident of Mililani, Hawaii, was charged yesterday in a federal indictment with two counts of embezzling from a union and two counts of making false entries in the books and records of a union.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - With the tax deadline quickly approaching for individual taxpayers, it is important to be aware of tax scams as well as the importance of being compliant in filing and paying federal taxes timely. Tax cheats are becoming more sophisticated in their schemes and are finding new ways to cheat the system as well as gaining access to your personal and tax information.
