News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - Two suburban women have been ordered to federal prison following their conviction for embezzling from their former employer, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Defendant allegedly stole over $400,000 from elderly uncle.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: BOLTON, N.C., Dec. 11, 2019 - Today, North Carolina Rural Development State Director Robert Hosford announced USDA has invested $7.9 million in high-speed broadband infrastructure to create or improve e-Connectivity for more than 4,000 rural households in North Carolina. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Gulf Breeze, Fla. - The National Park Service will open a special exhibit this Saturday, Dec. 14, at the Fort Pickens Discovery Center. The special exhibit highlights the 25th United States Colored Troops (USCT) that served in the Pensacola Bay Area during and immediately after the Civil War. The exhibit will be open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through May 15, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Gheorghe Cirstea, age 33, and a citizen of Romania, was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for conspiring to steal bank customers’ account information and personal identification numbers (PINs) by using skimming devices that he secretly installed on bank ATMs in the Capital Region from August through October 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Fifteen South Florida residents have been charged by federal authorities in connection with a kickback and bribery scheme involving employees and vendors of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centers located in West Palm Beach and Miami, Florida. Court filings allege that in exchange for...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Two Georgia men have been sentenced to prison for creating counterfeit checks and then cashing them at banks in Saratoga and Warren Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Today, the House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (NDAA) with two landmark provisions, one from Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Oversight and Reform Committee, to provide paid family leave for federal employees; and one by the late Chairman Elijah E. Cummings to reform the nation’s criminal justice system.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Junior Zelaya-Canales, a regional leader of the 18th Street gang, will be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Robert M. Levy in federal court in Brooklyn on a fourth superseding indictment charging him with murder in aid of racketeering in connection with the September 2016...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Two Reagor Dykes Auto Group employees pleaded guilty this week to participating in the auto group’s floor plan fraud scheme, following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas Field Office, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Brooke Shaeffer, age 24, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information with theft of funds on December 9, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A resident of Patterson Township, (Beaver County) Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Luke Joseph Burning Breast, age 36, of Mission, South Dakota, was found guilty of Felon in Possession of a Firearm as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota. The verdict was returned on Dec. 10, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Dallas Man Sentenced to 30 Years on Terrorism Charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Mr. President, the Trump tax law is two years old, and it’s an unhappy anniversary. The economic legacy of this administration will be spending $1.5 trillion to widen the economic gap in America.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area invites you to come and enjoy the great outdoors. With reduced staffing and resources during the winter season, the facilities open and available for your use are limited.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming raised $10.8 million in its Dec. 10-11, 2019, quarterly oil and gas lease sale, facilitating economic opportunities and infrastructure investment in local communities. The BLM received bids on 123 parcels totaling about 123,258 acres.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Terrence D. Marsh, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to 295 months incarceration for drug distribution and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
