News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn., - Dec. 3, 2019 - Following a seven-week jury trial in U.S. District Court earlier this year, a federal jury convicted five members of the Gangster Disciples of multiple counts relating to a racketeering conspiracy and a drug distribution conspiracy, which plagued the Clarksville, ...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will help celebrate the 2019 holiday season by lighting the new National Christmas Tree at the 97th annual National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony at President’s Park on Dec. 5.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C - Senator Patty Murray, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor, released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released today reveals the dramatic...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of violating federal drugs laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C.-Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, voted against advancing the nomination of Dr. Stephen Hahn to serve as Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner. In her remarks at the HELP Committee’s markup, ...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Elko, Nev. - The California Trail Center will present its annual holiday celebration, a Pioneer Christmas for Kids, on Dec. 7, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of LENNIE DWAYNE BROOKS, 34, RANDY LORENZO BROOKS, 24, and AUTUMN MARIE NICHOLS, 21, to prison for their roles in a string of violent home invasion robberies. Senior Judge David S. Doty sentenced LENNIE BROOKS to 365 months in prison, RANDY BROOKS to 240 months in prison, and NICHOLS to 120 months in prison. On November 5, 2019, co-defendant ESPERANZA CARDENAS, 30, was sentenced to 50 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to of federal firearms violations, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced JOSHUA AARON DAVIS, 40, of Fayetteville, NC, yesterday. Judge Dever sentenced co-defendant CORNELIUS THOMAS on October 9, 2019. THOMAS was sentenced to 132 months imprisonment and five years of supervised release. DAVIS was sentenced to 181 months of imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: ANSON, Texas - The field office director (FOD) for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) for Dallas, Texas, is announcing a new ICE detention facility that’s officially opening during the week of Dec. 9.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced JOSHUA AARON DAVIS, 40, of Fayetteville, NC, yesterday. Judge Dever sentenced co-defendant CORNELIUS THOMAS on October 9, 2019. THOMAS was sentenced to 132 months imprisonment and five years of supervised release. DAVIS was sentenced to 181 months of imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: A few tickets still remain to participate in Fort Scott National Historic Site’s 38th Annual Candlelight Tour. Later tour tickets are still available by calling the Fort at 620-223-0310 (with a major credit card) or by stopping by the Visitor Center on Old Fort Blvd. Tours on December 6 will begin at...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Cory Smith has been sentenced for defrauding more than a dozen diamond and jewelry dealers and wholesalers nationwide. Over the course of his scheme, Smith attempted to defraud these companies of nearly $1.2 million in diamonds and jewelry and successfully obtained nearly $570,000 in merchandise.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Lorenzo Davis, 29, has been sentenced to 376 months in federal prison for armed bank robbery and carjacking. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - David M. DeVillers, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, today announced the following appointments to his executive and supervisory staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Derek Erwin Graves, 52, of Pascagoula, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent-in-Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago man was sentenced Tuesday to a year and a half in federal prison for conspiring to straw purchase handguns on behalf of a woman who allegedly tried to smuggle the firearms into Egypt.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Owner of Medical Laboratory Pleads Guilty to Filing False Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed against the CEO of an online payment processing company, and seven others, charging them with conspiring to make and conceal conduit and excessive campaign contributions, and related offenses, during the U.S. presidential election in 2016 and thereafter.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that yesterday in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced JESSICA PATE, 26, of Dunn, North Carolina to 18 months imprisonment, followed by 2 years of supervised release.
