News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship Chair Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) released the following statement in response to the announcement from the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Health and Human Services (HHS) stating that a final rule will be released in the coming days to ostensibly implement the “substantive" provisions of the Flores Settlement Agreement...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A Lame Deer man who admitted hitting and kicking an elderly woman was sentenced today to 37 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Spokane, Washington, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent oversight letters to the four dominant e-cigarette manufacturers today requesting information on each of the companies’ research into the public health impacts of their products, their marketing practices, and their role in the promotion of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: A researcher at the University of Kansas (KU) was indicted today on federal charges of hiding the fact he was working full time for a Chinese university while doing research at KU funded by the U.S. government.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of unlawfully prescribing and distributing controlled substances, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: Guthrie possessed four guns, two of which were loaded and kept near drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Omar Antonio Murillo-Bonilla, a citizen of Honduras, was indicted by a federal grand jury today for an immigration violation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Antoine Adem, M.D., 49, of Festus, MO, and his company, Midwest Cardiovascular, Inc., plead guilty to their involvement in a healthcare fraud scheme. Adem appeared in federal court before U.S. District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig who accepted the guilty pleas and set sentencing for Nov. 19, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Troy Wragg, 37, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced today to 22 years in prison and $54 million restitution by United States District Judge Joel H. Slomsky for perpetrating two fraud schemes.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WISCONSIN, Aug. 20, 2019-Bees only feast on nectar and pollen, right?.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Office of River Protection has opened the doors to a key portion of the facility where low-activity nuclear waste from the Hanford Site ’s underground tanks will be transformed into immobilized glass.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Join the National Park Service and Mission San José church at San Antonio Missions National Historical Park in observance of the 400th year since the transatlantic slave trade first brought enslaved African people to British North American shores. From 1:30 pm to 2:15 pm Aug. 25, the National Park Service and church at Mission San José will join national parks across the country for a free ranger program, poem reading, music, and nationwide bell ringing.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - Steamtown National Historic Site (NHS) recently participated in the annual federal government’s Feds Feed Families food drive to support local pantries. This year Steamtown NHS employees donated approximately 200 pounds of non-perishable food to the United Neighborhood Centers Food Pantry in Scranton. Administrative Support Assistant Aaron Sweetwood (pictured) coordinated the Steamtown NHS drive.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Agents and officers assigned to the Mountain and Old Dominion U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) Border Enforcement Security Taskforce (BEST) seized 1.2 kilograms of fentanyl as part of an ongoing narcotics investigation, resulting in...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Former CEO of Virginia-Based Defense Contractor Agrees to Pay $20 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Related to Fraudulent Procurement of Small Business Contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Eric Lin, 35, of Clarksburg, Maryland, was arrested on Friday, Aug. 16, 2019, in Seattle, Washington, after being charged with Making Threatening Communications, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 875(c) via a criminal complaint filed in Miami. Lin made his initial appearance before a United States Magistrate Judge in Seattle.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Defendant used fake social media accounts to prey on more than 200 minors in two months.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to aiming the beam of a laser pointer at an aircraft.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan will travel to Panama City, Panama to participate in a Meeting of Central American Ministers of Security and to meet with Panamanian officials to discuss regional cooperation to confront irregular migration.
