News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Former Alabama Police Investigator Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Handcuffed Arrestee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued a subpoena for the full Mueller report and underlying evidence related to the Special Counsel's investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: FBI and Local Law Enforcement Seek to Identify Ball Cap Bandit.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to request a briefing on the efforts CDC is taking to educate the public and prevent heat illnesses among youth athletes. Pallone’s letter comes in the wake of several of these avoidable tragedies, including one affecting a family in his home state of New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica MacDonald today announced the filing of a civil complaint against SCOTT PHILLIP FLYNN, SHAWN M. GRIMM, WATERTOWN PROPERTY, LLC, and DESERT INN HOLDINGS, LLLP, seeking to liquidate millions in assets purchased with income that was part of FLYNN’s tax fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Marcos D. Guzman, 35, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to theft of firearms from a Federal Firearms Licensee and possession of firearms by a convicted felon before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charges each carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Robbed Woman, Then Shot Man Who Tried to Help Her.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: OXFORD - A Desoto County man has been sentenced to serve 10 years in prison following his conviction for possession of child pornography. Benjamin Adam McDonald, age 33, of Southaven, Mississippi, was arrested and prosecuted after a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: FILLMORE, Utah- Every Easter weekend, the Bureau of Land Management welcomes over 20,000 visitors to the Little Sahara Recreation Area (LSRA) for off-highway vehicle recreation and camping fun. Due to a large influx of visitors, Juab County Sherriff’s Department, Millard County Sherriff’s Department...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response the Trump Administration’s finalization of the annual Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for the 2020 health...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Myron William Ernst (61, Orlando) today pleaded guilty to bank robbery. Ernst faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Jean Joseph, 48, of Boca Raton, Evergreen United Investments, LLC, (Evergreen), a Florida Limited Liability Company, and GSA Income and Development Fund, L.P., (GSA) a Foreign Limited Partnership, charged with wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343. Joseph was arrested yesterday.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: RIDGECREST, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Ridgecrest Regional Wild Horse and Burro Corrals invites the public to an open house Wild Horse and Burro adoption and sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday, April 26. There will be 300 horses and burros available for adoption, and many of the animals at the corrals qualify for the BLM’s new Adoption Incentive Program (AIP).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - An Indian national has been extradited to the United States from Singapore to face charges related to his role as an operator of a call center network that targeted U.S victims. The massive India-based telephone impersonation fraud and money laundering conspiracy defrauded thousands of U.S. residents out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Three men were charged in federal court in Boston yesterday with fentanyl conspiracy.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will hold a meeting May 14, 2019, in Washington, D.C., to solicit public comments and suggestions from stakeholders on issues relating to whistleblower protection under Section 11(c) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
Release: NEW YORK - The Transportation Security Administration at LaGuardia Airport set a record yesterday, April 18, for the most passengers who went through the security screening process in the history of the airport when 59,698 travelers passed through the checkpoints and onto their departing gates. The previous record was set last year, on June 25, 2018, when 58,617 passengers were screened at the LaGuardia Airport security checkpoints.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: St. Marys, GA - Cumberland Island National Seashore is cancelling all ferry service to and from Cumberland Island for Friday, April 19th due to the forecast of severe weather. Campers currently on Cumberland Island are being notified and given the option to depart the island this evening.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Jameel Collins was sentenced today to 100 months in prison on drug trafficking charges and for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Susan Illston, Senior U.S. District Judge, following a three-day trial after which a federal jury convicted Collins of the charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Jamie D. Wilson, 36, of Jackson, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to 47 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm after having previously been convicted of a felony, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Wilson was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
