News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: WHEN: Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 11:00 AM.
By State Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a committee business meeting during which members voted out 23 nominees and seven other pieces of legislation.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: Youth Conseravtion Corps Applications for Homestead National Monument of America 2019.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
Release: Congressman Pete Visclosky (IN-01), Chair of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's budget hearing on Defense Health Programs.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: (April 3, 2019) - House Agriculture Committee Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations Chair Marcia Fudge of Ohio delivered the following remarks at the subcommittee hearing on the proposed AWBAD Rule and its impact on Hunger and Hardship.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: Waterloo Man Previously Convicted of Attempted Murder and Armed Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two Parkersburg residents arrested as part of Project Parkersburg - a major takedown and dismantling of a multi-state drug trafficking organization (DTO) responsible for distributing methamphetamine and heroin - appeared in federal court today, announced United States Attorney Mike...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: In today’s Higher Education and Workforce Investment hearing on accountability, Committee Republicans emphasized that greater accountability is crucial to serving all students. “Today’s postsecondary education system looks a bit like a tangled ball of yarn. From rising tuition and student debt to lagging ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A South Boston man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to distributing heroin and fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting energy security and economic growth, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) authorized a competitive coal lease sale for seven federal tracts encompassing nearly 433 acres and containing an estimated 1.4 million tons of sub-surface mineable federal coal reserve within the Wayne National Forest in Perry and Morgan counties, Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: A former Mayes County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant pleaded guilty today to stealing methamphetamine that had officially been seized as evidence during multiple investigations, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on April 2, 2019, Carol S. Jennings, age 57, of Riverton, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose for bank fraud. Jennings was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay $77,247.47 in restitution. As part of her sentence, Jennings will serve six months of home confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - LaFonda Lewis, 57, a former supervisory contract oversight specialist with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), was sentenced today to a year and a day in prison for providing non-public information about pending HUD contracts to a business owner in exchange for money, tickets to sporting events, and other things of value.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: Concord, NH - Great way to start April, “Fugitive of the Week," Jeanne Andrews, 40, was arrested today by the U.S. Marshals - NH Joint Fugitive Task Force and the Rochester Police Department. Andrews was wanted on two outstanding arrest warrants, including Strafford County, where she was wanted for bail violations on a charge of Sales of Fentanyl and Rockingham County, where she was wanted for failing to appear on a charge of sales of Klonopin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Ramiz Zijad Hodzic, 44, of St. Louis County, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and one count of providing material support to terrorists. Hodzic appeared today before Judge Catherine D. Perry who accepted his plea and set his sentencing...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced that Scott Washington, aka Body, aka Addy, 31, of Elmira, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. Washington was also ordered to forfeit a.40 caliber handgun and rounds of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Two defendants, who were involved in “jackpotting" a number of ATMs in Utah and elsewhere from Feb. 23, 2018, to March 7, 2018, have resolved their federal cases in Salt Lake City and been sentenced. Three others have entered guilty pleas and will be sentenced in May. Cases are pending for two other defendants charged in the scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon are requesting information from two companies affiliated with The MENTOR Network (Mentor) after recent news reports in Iowa and Oregon revealed multiple instances of abuse and neglect, and in one case, an apparent death. Mentor contracts with the two states to provide care for adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
By State Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Michael McCaul, the Committee’s Ranking Member, issued the following statement following their meeting with Mevlüt Çavusoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: Sandra Ruballo, 47, of Davie, Florida, and Carlos Andres Montoya, 48, of Miramar, Florida, participated in a conspiracy to defraud the federally funded Child Care Food Program, which provides free and reduced meals to underprivileged children at hundreds of South Florida daycare centers. As part of the...
