News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury today convicted the mayor of Portage, Ind., on a corruption charge for soliciting and pocketing a bribe in exchange for influencing the awarding of city contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: New Orleans Man Sentenced for Hate Crime in Shooting of Three African-American Men Attempting to Evacuate After Hurricane Katrina.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This Valentine’s Day, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., introduced legislation providing equal dignity in the tax code for all legal marriages. The Equal Dignity for Married Taxpayers Act, which is cosponsored by every member of the Senate Democratic caucus, protects LGBTQ+ Americans from inequality and discrimination by removing gender-specific references to marriage in the tax code.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ALEXANDRU BURDUCEA, a doctor who practiced in Manhattan, pled guilty today to conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute in connection with a scheme to prescribe Subsys, a potent fentanyl-based...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced KYLE ROBERT PERRY, 27, of Kenly, North Carolina to 144 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has modified its process to request new service suppliers for the Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC - pronounced “LANCE").
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Jose Anico 69, of Allentown, PA was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with one count of false statements in connection with an application for a passport, one count of aggravated identity theft, five counts of wire fraud, and four counts of health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Somerset County, New Jersey, man was charged today with lying during proceedings before the U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
Release: VIENNA, AUSTRIA – Yesterday, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette visited Vienna, Austria for the first time as Deputy Secretary to meet with leaders of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). U.S. Ambassador to International Organizations in Vienna Jackie Wolcott also participated in the meetings.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Whitinsville woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to her role in a conspiracy to distribute the amphetamine Adderall.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: The decision to withdraw the Portland Police Bureau from the Joint Terrorism Task Force is a mistake that defies logic. It’s disappointing that in spite of the overwhelming evidence presented of JTTF successes in Oregon and across the nation, a majority of the city council chose a politically-expedient...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Oversight and Investigations Ranking Member Brett Guthrie (R-KY) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the current measles outbreak and response efforts on Wednesday, February 27. More information on timing, location and witnesses will be announced next week.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced the unsealing of an Indictment dated February 7, 2019, charging ESTEBAN RAMIREZ, III (“RAMIREZ"), age 26, HEATHER TOLSON (“TOLSON"), age 26, JOSE FERNANDEZ MOREL, a/k/a Benny Veintitres, a/k/a Robert McCane, a/k/a Domi (“FERNANDEZ"), age...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Feb. 14, 2019 - Jamal J. Gardner, 47, of Columbia, Tennessee, was charged today in a criminal complaint with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Two men made their initial appearances in federal court yesterday on charges related to the possession of 65 firearms, including machine guns, and silencers, stolen at a Las Vegas gun show last month, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich of the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Ray Roundtree of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on report released by the Department of Education’s independent watchdog, the Office of Inspector General, which found internal failures...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Whitinsville woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to her role in a conspiracy to distribute the amphetamine Adderall.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - John C. Fortner, 44, of Chillicothe, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 240 months in prison for attempting to coerce a minor while registered as a sex offender.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: (DILLON, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management’s Dillon Field Office has issued its final reports on public lands within the Rochester and East Bench watersheds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Tyler Goforth and Jesslyn Felix were indicted on charges they engaged in a scheme to steal the mail from a San Francisco condominium, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Inspector in Charge Rafael Nuñez. The indictment was filed Jan. 15, 2019, and unsealed today.
