News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 29-year-old Austin woman has been sentenced for smuggling heroin through the local port of entry, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By State Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a business meeting during which members approved nine bills, 10 Senate resolutions, one joint resolution, one concurrent resolution, and two nominees.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Omar Banks and Jimmy Shupe Are Two of 21 Defendants Charged in Methamphetamine Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Concord, NH - Shortly after being featured this morning as the “Fugitive of the Week," Jared Woodman, 36 years-of-age surrendered to the US Marshals in Manchester. Mr. Woodman was being sought on an outstanding federal arrest warrant alleging the distribution of controlled substances including fentanyl and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Late yesterday, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced an Albuquerque, New Mexico man to 180 months in prison for transporting a minor with intent to engage in sexual activity and travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Monday, December 16th at 11:00 a.m., the Friends of the National World War II Memorial will host a ceremony and wreath presentation at the National World War II Memorial to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest and bloodiest single battle fought by the United States in World War II.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today introduced the Increasing Opportunities for Former Foster Youth Act, bipartisan legislation to improve services for older youth aging out of the foster care system.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: This evening, the House is debating H.R. 3, Speaker Pelosi's radical drug pricing scheme that will eliminate choice and competition, jeopardize innovation, investment, and access to future cures, and impose unprecedented government interference in private, market negotiations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced that two brothers convicted of shooting a U.S. Postal Carrier were sentenced to prison today. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. sentenced Rashawn Donnell Williams, 31, of Charlotte to 28 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Parole officers found a loaded handgun with the hammer pulled back under the mattress.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Van Buren, MO - After 42 years of federal service, 36 with the National Park Service (NPS), Ozark National Scenic Riverways Superintendent Larry Johnson is retiring on Jan. 3, 2020. Larry has been the superintendent at the park since 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Late yesterday, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced an Albuquerque, New Mexico man to 180 months in prison for transporting a minor with intent to engage in sexual activity and travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Sentences From "Operation Cesar's Palace" Total 682 Months.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: ATHENS, Ga. - A former Associate Probate Judge and Family Law attorney in Walton County, Georgia was sentenced to prison for attempted online enticement of a minor, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. George Randolph “Randy" Jeffery, 59, of Monroe...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Brian Northup, age 28, of Hudson, New York, pled guilty today to accessing a child pornography web site available only through an anonymous Internet network.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released the following statement regarding the upcoming two-year anniversary of the landmark Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The once-in-a-generation overhaul of the tax code was signed into law by President Donald Trump on Dec. 22, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Suffolk man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for producing images of child sexual abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Attorney’s Office has charged Leanna Zamora, Lindsay Williams, and Shane Cratty with distribution of fentanyl, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge William “Curt" Fallin. The charges were made in a complaint filed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Dec. 10, 2019, a two-count federal indictment was issued against Kou Lee (age: 30) of Appleton, Wisconsin.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy Chairman Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Ranking Member Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) issued the following joint statement after Finance Committee members received a bipartisan briefing on the health of multiemployer pensions plans.
