News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced that Joseph F. Wiseman, Jr., 58, of Roswell, Georgia, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge today, for his role in a bribery scheme involving three former top Buncombe County Officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Four companies and three individuals have agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges related to the illegal importation and sale of $11 million worth of pharmaceutical-grade erectile dysfunction drugs that were falsely marketed as herbal remedies for men.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Closed since road re-construction began in May 2018, the facilities in the Kolob Canyons District of Zion National Park will reopen on Friday February 8, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Ohio man admitted today he robbed a mobile communications company retail store in Orange, New Jersey, at gunpoint in June 2016, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who uploaded child pornography to an instant messaging site was sentenced yesterday to 18 years and one month in federal prison to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ISRRAEL ROCHA-BARRON, age 30, a native of Mexico, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the February 2019 Federal Grand Jury. An additional seven sealed indictments were also returned.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: On Feb. 18, the Eisenhower National Historic Site will be offering free tours of the historic Eisenhower home to mark President’s Day. Tours of the home will be offered at 10 am and 2 pm, and will begin at the Eisenhower Reception Center.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today pinned FAA Astronaut Wings on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo crewmembers, Test Pilots Mark “Forger" Stucky and Fredrick “CJ" Sturckow. Last year’s historic spaceflight marked the nation’s return to space on an American-made rocket, and paves the way for future travel to space with commercial spaceflight participants.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Washington - Today, Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Jim Carroll announced Anne Hazlett as the office’s Senior Adviser for Rural Affairs.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $35 million in awards for 12 projects that find new ways to harness medium-voltage electricity for applications in industry, transportation, on the grid and beyond. The selected projects are part of ARPA-E’s Building Reliable Electronics to Achieve Kilovolt Effective Ratings Safely (BREAKERS ) program, as well as the latest OPEN+ cohort, Kilovolt Devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Adrian Almodovar III, a former correctional officer at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, pleaded guilty in federal court today to unlawfully assaulting two handcuffed inmates and to failing to stop other correctional officers from assaulting one of the inmates.
By State Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Tomorrow, the European Council is expected to vote on proposed changes to the European Union Gas Directive to impose additional regulations on major gas pipelines entering EU territory that do not comply with current EU rules. The amendment is important because the Russian state-owned...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement for the markup of H.R. 948, the “No Oil Producing and Cartels Act of 2019"...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today announced his support for the Green New Deal resolution unveiled by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and other Congressional Democrats. Grijalva, who yesterday led the first in a monthlong series of hearings on...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ten people are facing federal drug trafficking charges in New Mexico following an 11-month investigation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Lea County Drug Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: For Distribution of Child Pornography. SOUTH BEND - Shawn Michael DeWitt, age 34, of Lafayette, Indiana, was sentenced before United States District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio after a jury found him guilty in October 2018 of Distributing Child Pornography, Coercing a Minor to Engage in Sexually Explicit...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: An Elyria man who stabbed a woman was indicted in federal court for carjacking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Old Bridge, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 20 months in prison for his role in a large scheme to defraud the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s health benefits plan of more than $2.8 million for the billing of medically unnecessary compounded prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Sioux City Police Department Task Force provided federal authorities information that illegal alien was staying in Spencer, Iowa.
