News from February 2019
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: BAKER CITY, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management’s National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center is connecting visitors to public lands and America’s natural and cultural heritage with a variety of programs in February.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Kiandre Johnson, 25, of Fresno, was sentenced Monday to 11 years and six months in prison for engaging in a conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering and using a facility of interstate commerce to facilitate prostitution, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Jonathan P. W. Garrison of Marion, Illinois, has been charged by indictment with unlawful delivery of methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon (2 counts), United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Yonkers, New York, man who was convicted by a federal jury of possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon was sentenced today to 77 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Adam Kamor, age 43, of Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information on Feb. 1, 2019, with money laundering and tax evasion.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said that President Trump’s expected failure to meaningfully address climate change in tonight’s State of the Union underscores the pressing need for congressional action and throws a spotlight on the Natural Resources Committee hearing at 10:00 a.m.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) recently marked a milestone when a room in the facility reached capacity with transuranic (TRU) waste.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Westside Crips gang member William McKinley Bright today became the last of 12 defendants to plead guilty, admitting that he participated in a racketeering conspiracy involving narcotics trafficking, sex trafficking and other violent crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Former Hadley Police Officer Found Guilty of Using Excessive Force Against Arrestee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced TRAEJAN JAHAD BARNES, 19, of Raleigh to 33 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Mo., man who was in a vehicle that led police officers in a pursuit pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS - A defendant who testified last month that she was duped by an Alabama woman into conspiring to steal money from a Columbus business was sentenced today in Columbus federal court, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. The Honorable Clay...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: International Falls, MN: Enjoy a warm campfire while listening to stories shared between countless generations. Meet at the Kabetogama Lake Visitor Center breakwater point on Sunday, February 10 at 7 pm and bring your warm winter gear, a light, and a folding chair if desired. The program will run until 8:30 pm. Weather-dependent. Recommended for ages 8 and up. Free. This event is part of the park’s 2019 Winter at Voyageurs Event Series.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Hutchinson man with a felony conviction record was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison for a firearm violation, U.S. Attorney Stephan McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Juan Pablo Zamora Gomez, 32, of Modesto, California, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Keith Starrett to 235 months in federal prison, followed by 8 years of supervised release, for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Derryle Smith with the Drug Enforcement Administration. Gomez was also ordered to pay a $20,000.00 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: A Key Biscayne, Florida resident was found guilty yesterday by a federal jury for his role in a $100 million scheme to defraud Westernbank of Puerto Rico (Westernbank); the losses triggered a series of events leading to Westernbank’s insolvency and ultimate collapse. The defendant was also convicted of a $3 million scheme to defraud Mellon United National Bank of Miami (Mellon Bank).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The final three members of a drug trafficking organization based in Lee County were sentenced in federal court last week, announced Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge Andy Langan with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: A People’s Republic of China (PRC) foreign national was sentenced to prison today for illegal photography of the U.S. Naval Air Station Key West, Joint Interagency Task Force, South (JIATF-South).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: or Jo Holt at 906-483-3038 (jo_holt@nps.gov).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today that Dr. Craig D. Fishman and Dr. Jeffrey A. Sheridan have agreed to pay the United States a combined total of $157,312.32 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing the government for mutually exclusive eyelid repair surgeries. Dr. Fishman and Dr. Sheridan are ophthalmologists who operate Fishman & Sheridan Eye Care Specialists.
