News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News couple has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for their respective roles in manufacturing and trafficking narcotics in Hampton Roads.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County doctor has been indicted for distributing opioids without a legitimate medical reason and falsifying medical records to cover it up, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced CARL MANCINI, 43, of Wolcott, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of tampering with a consumer product.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Federal Inmate Convicted of Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News couple has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for their respective roles in manufacturing and trafficking narcotics in Hampton Roads.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, announced their support for the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that reflects groundbreaking changes achieved by Democrats after months of negotiations with the administration. Wyden is ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, while Brown sits on the Finance Committee and is ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Cambridge man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston for illegally possessing two firearms and over 150 rounds of ammunition.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The first annual President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition wrapped up yesterday. The competition began in September and drew more than 1,000 individuals and 200 teams. After two qualifying rounds, 10 individual finalists and five team finalists came to the Washington, D.C. area for the final...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 45-year-old international terrorist imprisoned in the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has been convicted of additional offenses in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Nearly $1Million Will Support Crime-Fighting Efforts in the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida,.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kevin Hinca, 28, of Lancaster, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiracy to distribute heroin. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a maximum $1,000,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released the following statement regarding the U.S. Trade Representative’s submission of legislative text and accompanying material to Congress of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. ordered today Bryant Riyanto Budi, 28, of Matthews, North Carolina, to serve 78 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release, for attempted possession of radioactive material with intent to cause death or serious bodily injury to another person.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) and the top Republican on the Trade Subcommittee Vern Buchanan (R-FL) released the following statements after President Trump and Congress reached an agreement on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Mario Brooks (30, Plant City) to five years and three months in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. The court also ordered Brooks to forfeit the firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Federal Prosecution is Brought Under U.S. Attorney’s Office “Fentanyl SOS Program".
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, Mont. - A two-year road construction project on Many Glacier Road will begin April 1, 2020. Visitors to the park in 2020 through 2021 are encouraged to plan accordingly.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Two Baltimore men, Stewart Williams, age 35, and Kelvin McFadden, age 26, have pleaded guilty to a federal robbery charge in connection with a series of four robberies of video game stores committed over a 12-day period. Williams and McFadden admitted that they brandished what appeared to be a firearm during each robbery. Williams entered his plea on Dec. 11, 2019, and McFadden entered his plea on Oct. 1, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of promoting America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States (BLM-ES) held a quarterly oil and gas lease sale Dec. 12, 2019, that resulted in competitive bids on all of the twenty parcels offered for over 6,450 acres located in the Mississippi counties of Perry, Wilkinson, Amite, and Franklin; and Monroe County in Ohio.
