News from December 2019
By State Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed an amended version of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act (S.178) yesterday:
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Gloucester man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A Birney resident with a history of domestic abuse convictions was sentenced today to 25 years in prison and five years of supervised release in the strangulation death last year of a woman on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Harrisburg, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Rashad Jamal Matthews, a 30-year old man with no fixed address.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - An Easthampton attorney pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Springfield to numerous financial fraud charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Sonia Hernandez, 44, of Norwalk, CA, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine, and money laundering conspiracy, was sentenced to serve 72 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
Release: The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing updates to the National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) to align with changes in the poultry industry, as well as to incorporate new scientific information and technologies into the NPIP.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio this afternoon, a federal judge sentenced 51-year-old Texas Mexican Mafia member Robert Eugene Hernandez (aka “Gino") to 35 years in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to extort money from drug traffickers operating in their territory without permission, announced U.S. Attorney John Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: In November, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Crystal Lynne Clark, 54, of Skiatook, with 14 counts of aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge today sentenced a Chicago man to more than 16 years in prison for shooting an agent from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Gerardo Maderos Loreto, age 34, of Yakima, Washington, was resentenced following conviction after a three-day jury trial in May 2017, for one count of use of the mail to commit murder for hire...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Florida man who planted credit card skimming devices on ATMs in Kansas was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Becky L. Peterson, 64, Tomahawk, Wisconsin was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 66 months in federal prison for conspiring with Mark W. Moore to distribute more...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: A Detroit man was indicted yesterday on charges of production, possession and receipt of child pornography, First Assistant United States Attorney Saima Mohsin announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - The Department of Justice today announced that it has awarded more than $376 million in grant funding to enhance state, local and tribal law enforcement operations and reinforce public safety efforts in jurisdictions across the United States. $14,444,949 will support public safety activities in the Middle District of Florida. The awards were made by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman John Lewis (D-GA) released the following statement marking National Tax Security Awareness Week, which runs from December 2 through December 6...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: The Republican leaders of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit have written to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asking that the agency maintain the 5.9GHz spectrum band specifically for transportation safety and reject a proposal that would reallocate some of that spectrum for non-transportation uses, which could impede the incorporation of safety technologies into the transportation network.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ- The fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) has potentially been detected on a fringed myotis (Myotis thysanodes) at Grand Canyon National Park. The bat was captured and sampled for the fungus in April 2019 during routine surveillance by park biologists.
By State Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today welcomed His Excellency Dr. Abdalla Hamdok, Prime Minister of Sudan, to the committee. Prime Minister Hamdok’s visit to Washington is the first visit by a Sudanese leader since 1985 and is a demonstration...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A Birney resident with a history of domestic abuse convictions was sentenced today to 25 years in prison and five years of supervised release in the strangulation death last year of a woman on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
