News from February 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after President Trump declared a national emergency to redirect funds for a border wall...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In advancing the Department of the Interior’s commitment to reduce wildfire risk, the Bureau of Land Management on Friday released its Hazard Removal and Vegetation Management Project Programmatic Environmental Assessment (EA). This assessment covers approximately 551,000 acres of...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In celebration of National Battery Day on February 18th, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Daniel Simmons announced the opening of a Battery Recycling Center at Argonne National Laboratory. Aiming to reclaim and recycle critical materials (e.g....
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the conviction of HAKEEM MALIK DONTAE FLAX, a/k/a “Keem," 32, for crimes related to violent gang activity, including conspiracy, distribution of heroin, and firearms violations. FLAX was found guilty following a four-day trial before Judge Wilhelmina...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) announced today that the Oversight...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III today sentenced Gary Keith Pinkowski, Jr., age 33, of Catonsville, Maryland, to 24 years in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for possession of child pornography, which he obtained using public computers at a library. Pinkowski has prior sex offense convictions in Maryland and Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana Receives 2018 Director’s Community Leadership Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), along with the Judiciary Subcommittee Chairs and Vice Chair, sent a letter to President Donald Trump to demand answers after he declared a national emergency at the southern border and to request hearings with White House Counsel Pat A. Cipollone and Justice Department officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: A former U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) official was sentenced today for demanding and receiving bribes from three for-profit schools in exchange for enrolling disabled military veterans in those schools and facilitating over $2 million in payments from the VA using the veterans’ federal benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Providence man who admitted to participating in a conspiracy to create and fill fraudulent prescriptions for opioid pills by using stolen medical practitioner identification numbers, unlawfully paying for many of the prescriptions with the use of medical insurance, and soliciting others to participate in the conspiracy, was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury indicted Michael Sandy Abadilla for possessing illegal and unregistered firearms and equipment, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF") Special Agent in Charge Rayfield Roundtree. The indictment was filed Feb. 12, 2019, and unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A previously convicted felon was sentenced today to nearly six years in prison for attempted robbery and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced TAMARA PERRY MCCAFFITY, 57, of Durham, North Carolina to 46 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. MCCAFFITY was also ordered to forfeit various real estate properties and to pay restitution in the amount of $523,783.00 to North Carolina Medicaid, among other terms of the judgment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama- On Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, Iosif Florea, 42, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison for his part in a “phishing" scam that impacted Alabama residents, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Dear Director Mulvaney and Administrator Rao...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will host the first presentation in its new “Future Scholars Lecture Series." This 1-hour lecture, entitled, “Bountiful Land and Poor Distribution: East Tennessee’s Agriculture and Its Impact on the Civil War" will be presented in the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center’s theater at.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced TAMARA PERRY MCCAFFITY, 57, of Durham, North Carolina to 46 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. MCCAFFITY was also ordered to forfeit various real estate properties and to pay restitution in the amount of $523,783.00 to North Carolina Medicaid, among other terms of the judgment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury has indicted the former president and the former chief legal officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., a publicly traded Fortune 200 technology services company based in Teaneck, New Jersey, in connection with a foreign bribery scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the conviction of HAKEEM MALIK DONTAE FLAX, a/k/a “Keem," 32, for crimes related to violent gang activity, including conspiracy, distribution of heroin, and firearms violations. FLAX was found guilty following a four-day trial before Judge Wilhelmina ...
By State Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Chairman of the Committee; Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), Chair of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations; and Rep. Chris Smith (R-J), the Subcommittee’s Ranking Member released the following statement on Nigeria’s upcoming presidential elections...
