News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Marena Mushero, 28, recently of Hampden, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge Lance E. Walker to five years of probation for conspiring to enter a marriage in order to evade U.S. immigration laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: In Connection With September 2017 Explosion at East Chicago Post Office and Subsequent Mailing.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Lee County Fiscal Court (“Lee County") and the former director of its ambulance service, Joseph Broadwell, have agreed to resolve civil allegations that Lee County Ambulance violated the False Claims Act, a federal law that prohibits the submission of false or fraudulent claims, agreeing to pay $253,930 to the federal government.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: TRUCKEE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will modify Boca Dam beginning in May 2019 to better resist the impacts of potential earthquakes. The project will extend to October 2020 and temporarily stop during the 2019/2020 winter. Boca Dam is located six miles northeast of Truckee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Kerry M. Kennedy, 30, of Florence, Kentucky, was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in federal prison, by United States District Judge David Bunning, for Transportation of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JOSEPH R. ALEXANDER, age 60, a resident of Gretna, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday to 19 months in federal prison for bank fraud. He was indicted in December 2017 and pled guilty in December 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Defendant Supplied Heroin to a Drug Trafficking Organization Based in Jamaica, Queens.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) yesterday introduced two bipartisan amendments to the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019, which just passed the House of Representatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - David C. Chalfant, of Bridgeport, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 10 months incarceration for his role in a heroin distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, announced that the Committee will begin its efforts this Congress to examine the fight against global climate change with two key hearings next week.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Chair of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the fiscal year 2020 budget request for the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing Thursday to examine the current migration crisis at the U.S. southern border, the policies and loopholes that encourage illegal immigration, and potential solutions. The witnesses addressed U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP’s) latest apprehension numbers and offered their perspectives on the current crisis compared to prior trends.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, New Jersey, man has been arrested and charged in connection with allegedly building and exploding a bomb, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: For Possession and Production of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jeffrey S. Grady, 35, of Stockton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley to two and a half years in prison and ordered to pay more than $25,000 in restitution for conspiracy to submit false claims to the IRS and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Louis Coleman III was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Boston for the kidnapping resulting in the death of Jassy Correia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A Belgrade man who admitted lying when he bought a semi-automatic pistol in Livingston was sentenced today to nine months of time served and one year of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: NORMAN, Okla. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is proposing to enter into a contract with the Svaty Ranch, located in Ellsworth County, KS, for care and maintenance of excess wild horses removed from the public range. In accordance with the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971, as amended...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: These statistics provide vacancy rates, homeownership rates and characteristics of units available for occupancy for the United States, regions, states and the 75 largest metropolitan statistical areas. Data for all geographies are available both quarterly and annually. Homeownership rates are also tabulated...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, NM - The Bureau of Reclamation invites the public to a presentation explaining plans for Rio Grande water operations in 2019. Snowpack is close to average in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico and a good spring runoff on the Rio Grande is expected.
