News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND- U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II announced today that the Northern District of Indiana collected $6,016,074.83 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2018. Of this amount, $2,974,660.68 was collected in criminal actions and $3,041,414.25 was collected in civil actions. Additionally, the Northern District of Indiana forfeited in excess of $1.3 million dollars in civil and criminal forfeitures.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced that Torri McCray, 40, of Buffalo, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, fentanyl, and 10 grams or more of buytryl fentanyl before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charges carry a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a fine of $5,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A federal grand jury today indicted a Wichita man on carjacking and federal firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Florida Home Health Services Company Owner and Co-Conspirator Sentenced to Prison for Role in $8.6 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that an Anchorage man has been sentenced to federal prison after he made arrangements with an undercover detective to meet with two fictional minors, whom he believed to be real, to engage in sexual activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, NEW ORLEANS, LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that a former Justice of the Peace for the Second Justice Court of Jefferson Parish was convicted by a federal jury in New Orleans for using his position to illegally obtain wage garnishments and loans. The jury returned its guilty verdict after deliberating for approximately three hours, ending a trial that began Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOEL CRUZ, 36, of Meriden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 63 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
Release: Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Chair of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on "Food and Drug Administration - Status of Operations".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: A Parma man was sentenced to more than two years in prison for making false statements in order to collect $47,000 in Social Security funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: A Los Angeles man today pleaded guilty to murdering a postal worker during a road rage incident in Dallas last February, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Patty Murray, (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, spoke out against President Trump’s nominee to fill Justice Kavanaugh’s seat on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Neomi Rao. In her remarks, Senator Murray laid out her concerns with Rao’s track record on a wide range of issues, including the rights of women, LGBTQ people, and survivors of sexual assault.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Workers in the health care and social service industries operate in unique circumstances that can put their safety in jeopardy. These workers, like all workers, deserve protections from workplace violence, and the Trump administration’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is currently ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of federal firearms violations, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are increasing flows through the city of Boise from approximately 280 to 1,780 cubic feet per second (cfs), beginning March 6, 2019. The flow through town will be increased 500 cfs each day over three days starting on Wednesday, March 6, 2019, and ending Friday, March 8, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Gulf Breeze, Fla. - Superintendent Dan Brown has released the annual Superintendent’s Compendium for 2019. The compendium is a comprehensive listing of how federal regulations and policies are implemented at the national seashore. Each year the park management team reviews the compendium and makes changes based on changing conditions, operations, community, and visitor comments received throughout the year, and resource issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Aaron Hicks, a/k/a Boog, a/k/a Boogy, 34, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to distribute marijuana, was sentenced to serve 30 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. In addition, Judge Arcara ordered the defendant to forfeit $10,400,000 in proceeds from illegal drug trafficking activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Pablo Lugo III, 23, of Lockport, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution, of fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 168 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: A Tulsa man has been sentenced to federal prison for 15 separate charges, including distribution of heroin and methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores. A jury found Darowe Junior Jones, 39, of Tulsa, guilty on Oct. 24, 2018.
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Washington- Representative Eliot L. Engel and Representative Michael McCaul, Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today introduced legislation condemning the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov and calling on the Trump Administration to sanction those...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) released an unredacted version of a recently completed audit conducted by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA). The version of the audit that TIGTA released yesterday was almost entirely redacted. The...
