News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Florence, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Donna Faye Shird, age 41, and Felicia Renee Shird, age 42, both of Florence, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to aid in the preparation and filing of false federal income tax returns. Chief United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General William P. Barr and Justice Department leadership today announced the recipients of the Third Annual Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service in Policing, recognizing the exceptional work of 19 law enforcement officers and deputies from 12 jurisdictions across the country.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Graduate School Enrollment Reaches 4 Million.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
Release: RICHMOND - Virginia residents who want to board an airplane for a domestic flight or enter a secure federal facility will soon need a star on their driver’s license, indicating that it is REAL ID-compliant, or they will need another form of federally approved identification. REAL ID-compliant driver’s...
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 DOL Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Education Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), and Senators Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Doug Jones (D-Ala.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) today released a bipartisan amendment to the House-passed FUTURE Act to make permanent...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man who said he killed another man in self-defense was indicted today on federal firearm and drug charges, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released the draft report - “The Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report" - to all Members and the public. The Committee will vote tonight to issue the report, before the Chairman of the Committee transmits it and any accompanying materials to the House Judiciary Committee consistent with H.Res. 660.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: EL CENTRO, Calif. - Michael Ryan Chatterton has been selected as Field Manager for the Bureau of Land Management El Centro Field Office, in Imperial and San Diego counties, California. In this position, he will be responsible for more than 1.4 million-acres of public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man has been convicted in federal court of a scheme to obtain more than $2.5 million in fraudulent federal income tax refunds, in part by stealing his children’s identities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph J.M. Orabona (619) 546-7951.
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Washington-House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-NY) and Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), along with Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security and Trade Chairman Albio Sires (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Francis Rooney (R-FL) issued the following statement regarding the need for an immediate and clean extension of the Mission to Support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH) which expires in January 2020...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MN: Voyageurs National Park staff worked this past year on upgrading the existing Voyageurs Tilson Connector Trail. This section of trail includes 400 feet of level, dry terrain through the boreal forest, bypassing an existing wetland and making the trail accessible year-round. Once sufficient snowfall accumulates, the trail will continue be groomed for classic, cross country skiing.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Keweenaw National Historical Park is hosting a holiday open house at the Calumet Visitor Center on Friday, December 6, from 5:00PM-7:00PM. This event is part of the Main Street Calumet’s Christmas in Calumet kickoff. The park will host ornament making activities and tree trimming, live music by members...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Alameda County Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Hassna is Among the Law Enforcement Officers Recognized in Ceremony.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Carlos Robinson, 28, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 192 months in prison for four separate armed store robberies committed in early 2017 and ordered to pay $1,077.24 in restitution. Robinson appeared today before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham announced that Robert Capelli, 34, of Milford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven, ...
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today applauded Senate passage of S.Res.318, a bipartisan resolution offered by himself and Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) to support the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The resolution passed out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier this year on Sept. 26, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Today, the Bureau of Land Management announced a proposal to offer 25 parcels, totaling approximately 32,713.76 acres of BLM-managed lands in the Green River District for the March 10, 2020 quarterly oil and gas lease sale. This notice initiates a 30-day public comment period on the associated environmental documents ending on Jan. 3, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Tayon Hutchins Fowler, 42, of Florissant, MO, pled guilty to one count of making a false statement to the Social Security Administration and one count of wire fraud regarding a scheme to defraud Mercedes Benz. Hutchins Fowler appeared today before U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White who accepted her plea and set sentencing for March 11, 2020.
