News from December 2019
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released the following statement regarding the Inspector General’s report confirming that the Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt acted ethically and did not exceed or abuse his authority in relation to his review of an...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: A Broken Arrow man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for possessing a firearm in furtherance of cocaine distribution crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that a lengthy federal investigation into an extensive drug trafficking network based in Plaquemine, Louisiana, has resulted in the return of a grand jury indictment charging five (5) individuals with narcotics and firearms-related offenses. As...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced Gustavo Araujo Lerma, 64, a Sacramento resident, to three years and nine months in prison for aggravated identity theft, passport fraud, and voting by an alien, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Two men have pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to child sex crimes charges, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. sentenced eight defendants today on drug conspiracy charges for their involvement in a narcotics distribution ring operating in Mecklenburg County.
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 Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and the House Judiciary Committee introduced two articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump for Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress. The articles can be found here.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A resident of Braddock, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of drug trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Swissvale, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on federal narcotics and firearms charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson and House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Chairman Jim Costa released the following statements today following the announcement of a deal between House Democrats and The White House on United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and a bipartisan group of lawmakers today wrote to the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate appropriations panels with oversight of the Department of the Interior (DOI) to urge funding limits and additional clarity on a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) pilot program to manage wild horse populations in the West.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and its liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) completed construction of the outer shell of the site’s second large-scale saltstone disposal unit on Dec. 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: A convicted domestic violence offender discovered with a firearm was sentenced last week to 10 years in federal prison, the statutory maximum sentence, following an investigation by the ATF Dallas Division, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A Kansas City man, who was already a registered sex offender in Missouri, pleaded guilty in state court to sexually exploiting at least three children.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Victor Quinones, 23, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to distribution of heroin. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: St. Louis - Nihad Rosic, 31, of Utica, New York, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and one count of providing material support to terrorists. Rosic appeared today before Judge Catherine D. Perry who accepted his plea and set his sentencing for April 16, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Celebrate the holidays with a nightly lighting of the new National Christmas Tree, a walk around the Pathway of Peace, musical performances and more at President’s Park this season. All holiday activities are free and open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New York (“NYPD"), Philip R. Bartlett, the Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), Patrick Freaney...
