News from April 2019
By EPA Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chair Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent a series of letters today to eight utility companies and the law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth (Hunton) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia joins the Department of Justice in observance of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, April 7-13, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Multiple felons charged with federal gun crimes appeared in court this week, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR-Special Agent in Charge Douglas A. Leff, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) San Juan Field Office, announced the arrest of Carlos A Garcia Valentin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SIMON RODRIGO TORAL-CONTRERAS, 46, a citizen of Mexico last residing in Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to approximately five months of imprisonment, time already served, for illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Liu Leads Moment of Silence and Tributes.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Claudia Humphrey, 62, of American Canyon, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley to six months in prison and ordered to pay $71,423 in restitution for theft of public money and falsifying records in a federal investigation, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Judge Nunley ordered Humphrey to self-surrender on May 23 to begin serving her sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced MAURICE SHAWAYNE HARRIS, a/k/a “Gator", 38, of Oxford to 60 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised released.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-John Joseph Wallace, Jr., 35, of Madras, Oregon, was sentenced today to 72 months in prison and life term of supervised release for the repeated sexual abuse of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Stefan Brown, 21, of Jackson, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette to 108 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for robbing a local business and brandishing a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that an Anchorage man has been sentenced to federal prison after he and a co-conspirator stole a fossilized woolly mammoth tusk from an Anchorage BLM museum, and then cut the tusk into pieces and sold them for profit.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing that continued the committee’s discussion about opportunities for innovative energy solutions that can reduce domestic and global greenhouse gas emissions.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Two former executives of a Springfield, Mo.-based charity and an Arkansas state senator have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a multi-million-dollar public corruption scheme that involved embezzlement, bribes and illegal campaign contributions for elected public...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced John Craig Myrick (67, Groveland) to seven years and three months in federal prison for forcible assaulting a federal officer causing bodily injury. Myrick was convicted following a two-day jury trial on January 8, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Terrell Eady (33, Tampa) to 20 years in federal prison for producing child pornography. Eady had pleaded guilty on Dec. 21, 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senator Ben Cardin, D-Md., today introduced legislation to allow the IRS to require minimum standards for paid tax preparers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Pawtucket man who fled members of the FBI Safe Streets Task Force on Tuesday during an investigation into his alleged drug trafficking activities was arrested by FBI agents on Wednesday in Fall River, Mass., and ordered detained today following his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Providence on drug trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman and Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray announced today that Saheed Jamal Grant, 21, of Asheville, was sentenced to 180 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger presided over the sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Corbin Kauffman, age 30, of Lehighton, Pennsylvania, was charged by a criminal complaint on April 1, 2019, with interstate transmission of threats to injure the person of another.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last month, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), introduced legislation to encourage and broaden access to fuel-efficient vehicles, helping to move our transportation system toward a future with lower harmful emissions, better air quality, stronger energy security and more consumer fuel choice.
