News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Making sure that victims of crimes are treated with compassion, fairness and respect.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of CARLOS MENDOZA SERRATO, 35, to 265 months in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. SERRATO, who pleaded guilty on July 9, 2019, was sentenced earlier today before Judge Joan N. Ericksen in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Senator Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), chairman of the Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy, and Senator Chris ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to news that the administration has reached an agreement with Speaker Nancy Pelosi on changes to NAFTA 2.0...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ALTON MCCLINTON, age 55, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Jay C. Zainey to (3) years probation, a $3,000 fine and 200 hours of community service after previously pleading guilty to using a facility of interstate commerce with the intent to promote unlawful activity, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 1952(a)(3).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Mexican national was sentenced today for six years in prison for illegally reentering the United States following removal after a felony conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Defendant stole more than $74,000 in Social Security benefits intended for her children who were no longer in her custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former chief operating officer of a New Jersey custom manufacturing firm admitted today that he made false statements and submitted false documents to the Department of Defense in fulfillment of a machine gun bipod assembly contract, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, as directed by the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act, Public Law No: 114-322 (WIIN Act), announces negotiation sessions for the City of West Sacramento for the conversion of water service and existing repayment contracts for prepayment of construction costs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Victim Was Robbed, Shot, and Run Over After Picking Up Cash for the Business; Investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the FBI, and the Prince George’s County Police Department and Sheriff’s Office Solved a 17-Year-Old Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Baden, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on a charge of theft of government funds, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: The second member of a couple who admitted producing and sharing child pornography has been sentenced to a substantial prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Defendants Ordered to Pay Restitution to Victims.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Contact: press@oc.usda.gov. Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2019 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued the following statement after United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced agreement on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA):...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years in jail on his conviction of malicious destruction of property by fire, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging three.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - John Robert Lyons, of Salem, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 20 months incarceration for distributing methamphetamine near a playground, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A Georgia man who operated an industrial-scale illegal pill-manufacturing operation has admitted to the main charge in a drug trafficking conspiracy, representing the final guilty plea among the defendants.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - The press conference previously scheduled by Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) has been postponed. New details will be made available at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Barry E. Sanders, 64, the former owner and CEO of Trailblazers, Inc., an auto and truck parts supply business formerly located in Lexington, was sentenced today, by Senior U.S. District Judge Joseph M. Hood, to 18 months imprisonment for bankruptcy fraud.
