News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The president of a bible college will appear in court today on charges he sexually assaulted a student on an international flight bound for Newark, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: The management of Denali National Park and Preserve has determined that there is adequate snow cover for the use of snowmobiles for traditional activities in areas of the 1980 park additions that are north of the crest of the Alaska Range.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: For Conspiracy To Distribute and Possession With Intent To Distribute Crack Cocaine.

By DOE Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected three new projects to receive up to $7 million to research and develop innovative technologies that will reduce the cost of geothermal drilling operations and field development, which is a key step toward achieving geothermal energy’s full resource...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Shane Harrigan (619) 546-6981 and Caroline Han (619) 546-6968.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joshua Vandegrift, 33, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of attempted receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 13 years in prison by U.S. District Elizabeth A. Wolford.

By Homeland Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Southeast Texas man who produced pornographic images of himself abusing toddlers was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison Monday.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Robert Lee Powell, II, 52, of Columbia, Tennessee, was sentenced today in federal court for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Powell pled guilty to the charge in August of 2019.

By DOL Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, 36 members of the U.S. Senate led by Senators Chuck Schumer, Patty Murray, Dianne Feinstein and Richard Blumenthal, along with 161 members of the U.S. House of Representatives led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Representatives Frank Pallone, Jr., Jerrold Nadler, Diana DeGette, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 49-year-old San Antonio businessman Rafael Enrique Rodriguez to seven (7) years in federal prison for his role in a multi-million-dollar health care fraud scheme.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - MS-13 gang member Carlos Alas Brizuela, a/k/a “Truco" and “Stewie," age 29, pleaded guilty today to a federal racketeering charge related to his participation in a violent racketeering conspiracy, specifically MS-13, including two murders, two attempted murders, and a kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced JAMES VINCENT BOYD, 50, of Fayetteville to 100 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced JAMES VINCENT BOYD, 50, of Fayetteville to 100 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: COOLIDGE, AZ - On Wednesday Dec. 11, 2019 Casa Grande Ruins will host Dr. Douglas Craig as part of its annual speaker series. The presentation will begin at noon on December 11 featuring Douglas Craig who will present a lecture titled "Casa Grande Ruins and the Hohokam World". The speaker series will continue every Wednesday at noon through March 11.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shameris Washington, a/k/a GB, 22, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to racketeering conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - A Kettering man was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 270 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for sexually abusing two toddlers and creating hundreds of images of the abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: Defendant caught with nearly 12,000 pills (1,400 grams) of fentanyl as well as heroin and cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Houston couple was sentenced to federal prison Monday for knowingly and intentionally conspiring to transport illegal aliens.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management has approved the extension of a withdrawal for Roosevelt Lake. The BLM processed an application on behalf of the Bureau of Reclamation to extend the withdrawal.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: I’ve recently spoken with my colleagues in the House of Representatives and officials in the Administration.