News from August 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes Now Includes Employment Paths Across Industries.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Katrina (Katie) Lynn Danforth, 32, of Post Falls, Idaho, pled guilty this week to two counts of use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder for hire, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Danforth was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d’Alene on Dec. 18, 2018.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer expressing their concerns regarding the export of language mirroring Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in trade agreements.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, will be joining Spokane Police Chief Craig Meidl and other law enforcement, community leaders, and residents on Tuesday, August 6th to celebrate the 36th annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention event.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Andre Cunningham, 25, and Terrence Morgan, aka Young, 24, both of Rochester, who were convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribute, 40 grams or more of fentanyl, 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, and heroin, were sentenced to serve 135 months and 87 months in prison respectively by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Wright Brothers National Memorial will host an open house for the public to learn more about a plan to amend its 1996 General Management Plan and to solicit public input.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - De’Asion Malik Coleman, 21, and Marquise Tyrelle Sharpe-Tall, 21, both of Charlotte, were sentenced to prison today on carjacking and firearms offenses, announced the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced Coleman to 130 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Sharpe-Tall was sentenced to 141 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that David Milliner, 50, of Philadelphia, PA entered a plea of guilty today before United States District Court Judge Petrese Tucker to four counts of online enticement of a minor, six counts of manufacturing/attempted manufacturing of child pornography, four counts of receipt of child pornography, one count of transfer of obscene material to a minor, and one count of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, United States Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Maylin Santiago, 25, and Rosa Merced, 39, both of Buffalo, New York...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, man today admitted robbing a bank in Carneys Point, New Jersey, in July 2018 while brandishing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for taking pornographic photos and video of a 7-year-old victim.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management Ely District’s Office of Fire Management in late July transferred 24 mobile and 28 portable radios, and related equipment to the White Pine County Fire Protection District. The transfer was made possible through the Rural Fire Readiness (RFR) program that allows BLM to transfer firefighting equipment to local cooperators to benefit the federal agency’s wildland fire mission.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Thad N. Junge, 41, of O’Neill, Nebraska, was sentenced Monday in federal court in Omaha for conspiring to distribute and distributing methamphetamine. Senior United States District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Junge to 210 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, Junge will be on supervised release for 10 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Michael Bang has pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud charges related to a fraudulent reimbursement scheme targeting the Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association (“COPERA").
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Independence, Missouri - On Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, Harry S Truman National Historic Site, in partnership with the Grandview (MO) Historical Society and the City of Grandview will offer a free special one day event at the Truman Farm Home, located at 12301 Blue Ridge Boulevard, in Grandview, Missouri, as part of commemorating the life of Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the United States, who spent many of his formative years on this farm from 1906-1917.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Mississippi Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Hate Crime for Crossburning.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today the recent unsealing of a federal grand jury indictment charging twenty-two defendants in Operation Jellystone, an extensive federal, state, and local investigation aimed at dismantling a large-scale cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine trafficking network based in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, with suppliers in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, and Colton, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Rick Swearingen, Commissioner, Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), announced that on August 6, 2019, Shayeh Dov...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: On Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019 from 10:00 a.m. - 4 p.m. car enthusiasts can enjoy automobiles from the 1900’s through the 1980s; original/restored and modified cars and pickups will be on display at the Homestead National Monument of America Education Center. You are invited to come and view these vehicles, and if you have one you would like to show off, bring it along! Registration is FREE! You be the judge! There will be people’s choice awards by the decade.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Spencer O. Katsohis, 27, of Nashua, pleaded guilty in federal court to possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
