News from April 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Government Operations Subcommittee, sent letters to twelve pharmaceutical companies targeted by Chairman Cummings’s sweeping drug price investigation.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Las Vegas-The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will hold three public workshops on April 9, 10 and 11 in and around Las Vegas about proposed airspace improvements over the metropolitan area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Victim Was Shot Multiple Times at Close Range.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND - Dennis A. Jones, 47 years old, of Lafayette, Indiana, was sentenced by District Court Judge Philip P. Simon on his plea of guilty to possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Roger Stokes, 36, of Walnut Grove, entered a guilty plea today, before Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan, to escaping from federal custody, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and U.S. Marshal Mark B. Shepherd of the United States Marshals Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to five years in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena man who falsely claimed to be a licensed attorney was remanded into custody this afternoon after a federal jury found him guilty of fraud charges related to his representation of “clients" in federal and state courts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Provincetown, Mass., man found passed out in his vehicle by Warwick police and to be in possession of more than 230 grams of methamphetamine in August 2017 was sentenced today to three years supervised release and fined $20,000, having pleaded guilty in U.S District Court in Providence in November 2018 to possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: YAKIMA, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s April 2019 Total Water Supply Available forecast for the Yakima basin indicates the water supply will fully satisfy senior water rights, while the junior water rights will receive an estimated 77 percent of their entitlements this irrigation season.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to four years and three months (51 months) of imprisonment and three years of supervised release in federal court for two charges of possession of a firearm or ammunition by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) today held a business meeting to advance the following nominees to the Senate floor:
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ENRIQUE LUCIANO, 32, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging ALEJANDRO AVILEZ-PEREZ, age 41, of Mexico, COURTNEY ANTHONY BECKFORD, age 36, of Jamaica, JHONAS CAMERO-SALINAS, age 26, of Mexico, JORGE AMILCAR RAMOS-LOPEZ, age 46, of Guatemala, and JUAN ANTONIO TORRES-NAVA, age 26, of Mexico, with Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Jolynn Denise McHone, 44, of Fort Mill, South Carolina, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David C. Keesler today and pleaded guilty to wire fraud, for embezzling from her employer more than $2.4 million worth of computer equipment, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western district of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Randolph Bourgoin, III, 31, of Millinocket, Maine, pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to theft of a firearm from a federally licensed dealer.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Dear Chairwoman Lowey, Chairman Quigley, Ranking Member Granger and Ranking Member Graves...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: On June 4, Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan will travel to Oklahoma with Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence. They will meet with first responders and citizens in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area as these communities continue to respond to the severe ...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Transportation Security Administration Public Affairs 571-227-2829 tsamedia@tsa.dhs.gov Enforcement begins in 18 months at all U.S. airport checkpoints WASHINGTON – The Transportation Security Administration is reminding travelers that beginning Oct. 1, 2020, every traveler must present a REAL ID-compliant ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Videos on how to use Census data are now available (WASHINGTON, D.C., April 4, 2019) – The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will release the 2017 Census of Agriculture results on Thursday, April 11, at noon ET. The full Census report will include millions of data points, including number of farms, land in farms, total value of production, demographics, and more at the national, state, and county levels.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that three pharmaceutical companies – Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (Jazz), Lundbeck LLC (Lundbeck), and Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Alexion) – have agreed to pay a total of $122.6 million to resolve allegations that they each violated the False Claims Act by illegally ...
