News from December 2019
By USDA Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Judiciary Committee Republican Leader Doug Collins (R-GA) slammed Speaker Pelosi for politicizing the drug pricing debate in Congress and not supporting bipartisan solutions to lower drug costs for Americans without limiting access to cures.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Eric Matthew Reddick, 23, of Albuquerque was sentenced in federal court on December 10 to 217 months in prison for two armed robberies he committed in 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service is pleased to announce that the 2020 Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) application process for Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Wright Brothers National Memorial is now open.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Carla B. Gaines, an attorney formerly licensed in Georgia, has been arraigned on charges of wire fraud and theft from a local government that receives federal funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that physician PAUL J. MATHIEU was sentenced yesterday evening by U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield to 48 months in prison for his participation in a $30 million scheme to defraud Medicare and the New...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Dear Administrator Wheeler: We write to you concerning a troubling report issued by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Dec. 10, 2019. This report describes efforts by EPA’s leadership to obstruct the work of the Inspector General. Our Committees...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Amy Jo Hansen Stole More Than $200,000 from Firstline Safety Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BARRY SCHWARTZ was sentenced to four years in prison today by U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff for participating in a conspiracy to defraud more than 50 investors in the Starship Snacks Corporation of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Christopher Allen Carmichael, 55, a principal working in the Lower Kuskokwim School District in Bethel, Alaska, has been charged with attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor, and attempted coercion and enticement of a minor. Carmichael was arrested yesterday, and is currently awaiting his initial court appearance.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A group of 15 community leaders and a service dog “Pilgram" graduated Wednesday in San Juan from the sixth U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) sponsored citizens academy. The graduation took place at the HSI facilities in Miramar where, Iván J. Arvelo, special agent in charge for HSI San Juan presented a certificate of completion to the graduates in a special ceremony.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A grand jury yesterday returned a superseding indictment charging two men with the February 6, 2019 armed robbery of an Albany bank in which approximately $150,000 was stolen.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that Chief United States District Terrence W. Boyle, sentenced DEMETRIS SEAN ROBINSON, a/k/a “Bo Bo," 27, of Whiteville, North Carolina, to life imprisonment plus 10 years to be served consecutively, followed by 5 years of supervised released. ROBINSON was ordered to pay $40,302 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Yolunda Shaunderes Walker, 36, of Clinton, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Tom Lee to 10 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for attempting to purchase a firearm by making false statements on a federal background check form, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Walker was also ordered to pay a $1500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Carlos Lamont Holt, III, a/k/a, “Heavy", 54, of Anchorage, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason, to serve 72 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of ammunition.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - Two men were convicted Thursday for operating a large-scale human smuggling scheme by operating stash houses in Houston using boarded-up trailers. A third man involved in the operation was convicted earlier this month.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Robbery of Chase Bank Branch in Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Jimmy Lee Thompson, 27, of Jackson, pled guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced on Dec. 10, 2019, that a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment against Otis T. Anderson (age: 30) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. -Otha Ray Flowers, 37, of Jackson, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Henry T. Wingate to 10 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
