News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez and U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey for the Eastern District of Tennessee announce that Scott Roix, together with several entities through which he ran his telemarketing business, including HealthRight, LLC; Health Savings Solutions, LLC; Vici Marketing, LLC;...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY-17) today issued the following statement after the Senate passed bipartisan legislation to raise unworkable budget caps and suspend the debt ceiling.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A California couple was arrested today on charges of operating a $7 million advance fee Ponzi scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Prosser, Washington Man Sentenced to 96 Months.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) responded to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to withdraw the proposed determination under Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act for the use of the Pebble Mine project in Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A felon who was found guilty of a federal firearm violation was sentenced yesterday to a total of eight years in federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation today announced interest rates for August 2019, which are effective August 1-Aug. 31, 2019. The Commodity Credit Corporation borrowing rate-based charge for August is 2.000 percent, down from 2.125 percent in July.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Christopher Kofi Noble, 41, of Anchorage, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve 10 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of ammunition. Noble was linked to five separate shootings in Anchorage during a three-month period of time. 10 years in prison is the maximum sentence for this crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - U.S. Attorney Aaron L. Weisman will join law enforcement, community leaders, and residents on Tuesday, August 6th at Rhode Island events to celebrate the 36th annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention event.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: ALBANY - A Valdosta man with a violent criminal history in that community was sentenced in federal court today after admitting he illegally possessed a firearm, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Kenneth Diamond Fountain, 28, of Valdosta...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Two heroin traffickers have been sentenced to federal prison after admitting to their roles in a major drug distribution conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: [KNOXVILLE, TN] - Following a two-day trial in United States District Court, Knoxville, Tennessee, a jury returned a verdict of guilty, convicting Marilyn Yvette Cook (also known as Marilyn Yvette Powell), of Alcoa, of presenting a fictitious obligation to a financial institution and presenting a false claim to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that a federal jury in Monroe convicted two northeast Louisiana residents for robbing three financial institutions at gunpoint and for multiple firearms violations. The verdict came in this afternoon following a four-day trial, which was presided over by U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Lakewood, CO - Today, the National Park Service (NPS) released a video documenting the first 36 hours of the Howe Ridge Fire, which took place at Glacier National Park. The fire destroyed private homes and publicly-owned historic structures on Aug. 12, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Salvador Padilla III, 39, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley, to 10 years in prison for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury in Dallas has indicted a U.S. citizen for traveling to Syria and conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Joseph Buenviaje, 53, of Berlin, was sentenced to serve 40 months for accepting bribes from inmates and providing contraband in prison, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
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By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Attorney for the United States acting under authority conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515 for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Ahmaad Ali, 24, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 132 months in prison for carjacking, brandishing a firearm during a federal crime of violence and robbery charges. He appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White.
