News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A newly unsealed superseding indictment has charged Russian and Italian nationals, a U.S. Citizen and various companies in a conspiracy to evade international trade sanctions.
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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Two Cohasset Police Officers were among the 19 law enforcement officers honored today by Attorney General William P. Barr for distinguished service in policing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Officer Recognized for Innovations in Community Policing.
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Washington-House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-NY) and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) today raised concern regarding the Trump Administration’s attempt to exponentially increase contributions made by South Korea, and potentially Japan, to offset the...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: JOHN DAY, Ore., Dec. 3, 2019 - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development State Director John Huffman today announced that USDA is providing $6 million to expand high-speed broadband infrastructure that will provide e-Connectivity for nearly 650 new customers in rural Wheeler and Grant counties. This is one of many funding announcements nationwide in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations sent a letter to Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, renewing their request to then-Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) asking to convene a hearing with Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO - Andrew Dixey Galloway, 30, of Blackfoot, was sentenced to a total of 179 months in federal prison for assault with intent to commit murder and using a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, U.S. Attorney Bart M Davis announced today. Galloway was sentenced to 59 months on the assault...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Emily W. Allen (619) 546-9738, W. Mark Conover (619) 546-6763 and Phillip L.B. Halpern (619) 546-6964.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: CORDOVA, Alaska, Dec. 3, 2019 - Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Alaska State Director for Rural Development Jerry Ward announced USDA has invested $18.88 million in high-speed broadband infrastructure that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for nearly 270 rural households in Yakutat. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, GUSTAVO TEIXEIRA MENDES DE ALMEIDA (GUSTAVO ALMEIDA), 35, of Coral Springs, Florida, and HENRIQUE TEIXEIRA MENDES DE ALMEIDA (HENRIQUE ALMEIDA), 30, of Coral Springs, Florida, were both sentenced to 30 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Nov. 26, 2019, a federal grand jury returned one-count indictments in separate cases against two convicted sex offenders for failing to register in Wisconsin after they had moved to Wisconsin from other states, in violation of Title 18, United States Code § 2250(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Robert Capelli, 34, of Milford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 95 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a large-scale marijuana trafficking conspiracy. Judge Arterton also ordered Capelli to pay a $30,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Wildland fire dispatching positions with Bureau of Land Management Nevada are open now through February, with early cut-off for applications on December 10th. Below are the current vacancy announcement numbers and deadlines to apply. Base hourly pay ranges from $16.20 to $22.45 per hour.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - An Iowa woman pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and heroin, one count of interstate travel in aid of racketeering, and one count of distribution of heroin.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Martin Davila - operating as Davila Construction - for exposing employees to fall hazards at three separate Missouri job sites in May, June, and August 2019. The residential roofing company faces $205,098 in proposed penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A man from Houston was sentenced today to four years in federal prison for driving a load of methamphetamine to Kansas, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is joining Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) for a video series aimed at providing the facts on Speaker Pelosi’s partisan plan for fewer cures.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago man was sentenced today 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: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot F. Shea, Commissioner...
