News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced Roberto Andrade-Caceres (47, Cali, Colombia), a/k/a “Yiyo," to over 24 years and 4 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine while onboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Todd J. Brown, Director of the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service (“DSS"), announced today that former Ambassador from the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations (the...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jacob Delaney, age 22, of Holtsville, New York, and currently residing in New Paltz, was charged and arrested today for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Thursday, December 5, 2019, Cyrus Phyfier, a 51-year-old resident of Montgomery, was sentenced to 360 months in prison for multiple drug and firearm related charges, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., ATF Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson, DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris, Secretary of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Hal Taylor, and Montgomery Police Chief Ernest Finley.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: As part of the Project Safe Childhood initiative, four men pleaded guilty or were sentenced this week in U.S. District Court, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Grundy organization responsible for drug-trafficking and money laundering in Indianapolis.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI -United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that Carl N. Decicco, III pled guilty on Monday morning for Failing to Register as a Sex Offender; the day his jury trial was set to begin.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS), Canaveral National Seashore will modify its entrance fees to provide additional funding for infrastructure and maintenance needs to enhance the visitor experience. Effective Jan. 1, 2020 the entrance fees to the park will be $20 per vehicle or $15 per motorcycle and...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX), Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), 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: 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: CAMDEN, N.J. - A grand jury has returned an indictment against five members of a drug-trafficking organization for conspiring to distribute significant amounts of narcotics through an open-air drug market in Camden, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jamie Smith, 42, Baldwin, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 54 months in federal prison for mail fraud. Smith pleaded guilty to this charge on Sept. 17, 2019.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after the Senate voted 52-39 to confirm Aurelia Skipwith to serve as the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: St. Louis - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today against three St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) Police Officers for their conduct in connection with the arrest and assault of a fellow SLMPD police officer who was working undercover in downtown St. Louis during protests following the 2017 acquittal of a former SLMPD officer of a first-degree murder charge brought by the State of Missouri relating to the shooting death of a civilian.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A former associate clerk in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County was sentenced today to two years in prison for lying under oath to a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Mississippi man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for sexually assaulting a minor during a cruise from Boston to Bermuda.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement applauding the confirmation of Dr. Stephen M. Hahn to serve as Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner...
