News from February 2019
By EPA Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce leaders sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb today requesting a briefing on a series of recalls that appear to involve drugs manufactured overseas that may have been contaminated with trace amounts of known carcinogens, which could lead to a shortage of drugs to treat high blood pressure.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report today recommending that Congress develop comprehensive internet data privacy legislation to enhance consumer protections while maintaining flexibility to address a rapidly...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) today filed the conference report on legislation that will keep the federal government open and fund key national priorities. The legislation, negotiated by a bipartisan, bicameral conference committee, is expected to be considered in the House on Thursday.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management will waive amenity-related fees at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area for Presidents’ Day on Monday, February 18. Other fees, such as camping and group day use, will remain in effect.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: A federal jury on Tuesday evening, convicted a Tuscaloosa County man of possessing methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Shelton Shane Chapman, Jr., a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves, to burglary within the Pearl River Community of the Choctaw Indian reservation, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Chair of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcomittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on "Long-Term Healthcare Challenges and Long Term Care".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that in federal court, before United States Magistrate Judge Robert B. Jones, Jr., GARY LYNN GATLIN, of Orrum, North Carolina, was charged in a federal Criminal Complaint for possession of a firearm by a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Justin Darby, 37, of Jackson, entered a guilty plea yesterday before U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate, to one count of carjacking and one count of using a firearm to facilitate the carjacking, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking nominations to fill three positions on its National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. Selected Board members advise the BLM and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) from the perspective of a particular interest in wild horse and burro management. The call for nominations released today is for the positions that represent humane advocacy, livestock management, and wildlife management interests.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-A Missoula man who admitted possessing methamphetamine and a firearm was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Cedrick Antwain Gant (28, Orlando) to 23 years in federal prison for carjacking and brandishing a semiautomatic assault weapon during an attempted carjacking. Gant had pleaded guilty on June 28, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced Dr. Michael Frey (46, Fort Myers) to 18 months in federal prison for conspiracy to receive healthcare kickbacks. Frey had pleaded guilty in June 2018. In addition to his guilty plea, Frey previously agreed to a civil settlement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MURRAY HUBERFELD was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in a scheme to submit false paperwork to Platinum Partners (“Platinum"), a hedge fund founded by HUBERFELD, in order to facilitate...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Nine people - including men with previous convictions for attempted murder, domestic violence and felonious assault with a firearm -- were indicted in federal court for firearms crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Jonathan D. Larsen, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted Kevin Kuhnash, 57, and Jason Jimerson, 44, formerly the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Lucent Polymers, Inc., an Evansville-based plastics manufacturer. The two men were...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A total of five of 19 Columbus men charged federally as being associated with a local Crips gang has pleaded guilty. The men were indicted in September 2018 and charged in a racketeering conspiracy that includes five murders, multiple attempted murders and other violent and drug-trafficking crimes.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2019 – J. Christopher Giancarlo, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), will speak at the annual dinner of USDA’s 95th Agricultural Outlook Forum. The forum is USDA’s largest annual meeting and will take place Feb. 21-22, 2019, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Va.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Charges were unsealed yesterday against a Micronesian government official for his alleged participation in a money laundering scheme involving bribes made to corruptly secure engineering and project management contracts from the government of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). In a related matter, ...
