News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearms and narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Washington-House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the situation in Venezuela in advance of Wednesday’s testimony before the Foreign Affairs Committee by U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE -The National Park Service has selected a photograph by J.K. Putnam of Southwest Harbor, Maine, as the winner of Acadia National Park’s 2019 annual entrance pass contest. The photograph portrays a pair of barred owls photographed in Acadia National Park. The photograph will appear on...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Freedom, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The National Safety Council has recognized the head of Oak Ridge’s lead environmental cleanup contractor as a 2019 CEO Who “Gets It," a designation that identifies leaders who go above and beyond to protect employees on and off the job.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio this afternoon, a federal judge sentenced former District 19 Texas State Senator Carlos I. Uresti to five years in federal prison for bribery, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Emeka Nnawuba Opened Bank Accounts with Fake Identities and Laundered Nearly $1,000,000 in Fraud Proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Jerry T. Vertefeuille, 54, of Niceville, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison. Co-defendant Christopher A. Carter, 37, of Fort Walton Beach, is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday, Feb. 15, at 11:00 a.m. CST. The sentence was announced by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A woman who operated massage parlors in Lawrence and Topeka pleaded guilty Tuesday to operating a prostitution business, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Dillon Colton Wilson, 26, of Glendale, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 21 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release. Wilson had previously pleaded guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced former Baltimore Police Detective Momodu Bondeva Kenton Gondo, age 36, of Owings Mills, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for one count of racketeering conspiracy and one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On February 5, 2019, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 35 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, today led the Senate’s strong bipartisan approval of S. 47, her Natural Resources Management Act. The Senate passed the legislation this afternoon on a final vote of 92 to 8, and it will now head to the House of Representatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, Ga: Three people, including two medical professionals, are among defendants recently prosecuted in federal court as part of continued efforts to crack down on opioid abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Arshad Nazir, age 54, of Ticonderoga, New York, pled guilty today to conspiring to defraud Medicaid, and conspiring to pay bribes and kickbacks to Medicaid beneficiaries who used his medical transportation service. He admitted to causing at least $550,000 in losses, and to paying at least $95,000 in bribes and kickbacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Randy Lamar Anderson, 46, of Conehatta, Kevin Edwards, 47, of Walnut Grove, and Roderick Bell, 40, of Philadelphia, were recently indicted by a federal grand jury for theft or embezzlement and wire fraud in separate schemes to defraud the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians government...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - A recent expansion of the Hanford Site ’s groundwater extraction system allows EM’s Richland Operations Office (RL) and contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC) to more efficiently remove, transfer, and treat contaminated groundwater.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded $199,540 to Orlando, Florida-based HaloLights, LLC to begin prototype testing of canine wearable technology. The award is part of DHS S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Jauwan Smith (22, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. His sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. -The Nebraska Commercial Interdiction Unit, made up of Omaha Division United States Drug Enforcement Administration agents, Nebraska State Patrol investigators, Douglas County Sheriff deputies, a Pottawattamie County Sheriff deputy and a Nebraska National Guard Counter Drug staff sergeant, ...
