News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a New Zealand man with four counts of production of child pornography and one count of kidnapping and attempted kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Charles Brown, Jr. 42, of Jackson, pled guilty yesterday before United States District Judge Carlton W. Reeves to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Dana Nichols, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 15 North Carolina counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers who suffered losses caused by Hurricane Michael or Hurricane Florence may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to Julie Kirchner, the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, requesting documents relating to reports that the office is failing to carry out its statutory duties to help people applying for legal immigration programs and to assist the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to improve those programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Haji Abdul Satar Abdul Manaf is Charged with Attempting to Send Hundreds of Kilograms of Heroin for Distribution in New York City with Financial Benefit to the Haqqani Network and the Taliban.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Unsuccessfully Sought to Thwart IRS Collection Efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Union General Hospital (“UGH"), located in Blairsville, Georgia, has agreed to pay $5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of BARTON GEORGE SCOTT, 35, a registered sex offender, for producing child pornography. SCOTT, who was indicted on Sept. 12, 2018, entered his guilty plea earlier today before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Park rangers at Grand Teton National Park recently conducted an investigation into an illegal take of a gray wolf within the park boundary that resulted in a conviction. Two individuals from Wyoming, a male 56 years of age and a female 55 years of age, were charged with illegal take of wildlife within...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A U.S. Customs and Border Protection supervisory officer has been arrested on federal charges alleging that he engaged in the business of unlawfully selling firearms without a license and sold an illegal short-barreled rifle to an undercover investigator.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Ranking Member Mike Conaway of Texas announced the rosters for the six subcommittees of the House Agriculture Committee today in Washington.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), the Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcomittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcomittee's oversight hearing on "Oversight Hearing: Impact of the Administration’s Policies Affecting the Affordable Care Act ".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A physician at the now-defunct New England Pain Management Associates Inc. was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for conspiring to falsify patient medical records in order to obtain payments from Medicare and commercial insurers for medical services that were not performed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On Feb. 4, 2019, Derrick Lee Hinton, 29, of San Carlos, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David C. Campbell to 18.5 years’ imprisonment followed by 10 years of supervised release. Hinton had previously pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual abuse.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: DOI, NPS Seeking Nominations for National Monument Advisory Council.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: House Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee Chairman Mike Thompson announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing, entitled “How Middle Class Families are Faring in Today’s Economy" on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, at 10:00 a.m., in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for the sexual exploitation of several children.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that his Office has filed a civil lawsuit to prevent the establishment of a facility in Philadelphia where drug users would go to inject themselves with illegal narcotics. The suit, filed against the nonprofit corporation Safehouse...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: MILLS, Wyo. -- The Wyoming Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation has prepared the February snowmelt runoff forecasts and operating plans for the North Platte River Basin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New Jersey man appeared in federal court today on charges that he promised to pay a purported hitman to kill his estranged wife, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. The defendant’s ex-girlfriend, who appeared in federal court Feb. 5, 2019, is also charged with participating in the plot.
