News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Arthur Taylor, age 36, of Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Feb. 1, 2019, before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Paul Haertel Named Special Agent in Charge of the Salt Lake City Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of New York City has been sentenced in federal court to 2½ years’ imprisonment on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Lavel L. Hicks, of Weirton, West Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on drug and firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - House Foreign Affairs lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) released the following statement tonight in response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Mark Nicholas Espinosa stole more than $900,000 from an armored truck before fleeing Kentucky.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Chair Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.) sent a letter today asking Energy Fuels and Ur-Energy, two major uranium companies, to clarify the extent of their influence in the Department of Interior’s (DOI) decision...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Company Will Pay More Than $9.7 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - An Illinois accountant was charged today with criminal fraud for allegedly misappropriating more than $65 million from individuals and financial institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Nagy Mohamed Abdelhamed, age 68, of York, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones to health care fraud for his fraudulent receipt of Medicaid and SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, formerly known as Food Stamp) benefits.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: To protect and restore native vegetation, promote healthy and diverse forests and preserve historic landscapes, four western Maryland national parks are preparing to implement previously approved white-tailed deer management plans. The National Park Service (NPS) will donate all suitable meat from reduction activities to local food banks. Last year, national parks in western Maryland and the District of Columbia donated more than 14,000 pounds of venison to local food banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A local woman pleaded guilty today to being part of a drug ring that distributed methamphetamine from Mexico in the Kansas City metro area, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Innovative engineers found a cost effective fix for equipment used in EM’s spent nuclear fuel processing at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Dave Bardzik, 56, of Ossipee, was sentenced to 18 months of probation and fined $2,500 for making a false statement in an effort to obtain fishery disaster relief funds, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: In one of the first studies of settlement of the vast interior region of Santa Rosa Island, Christopher Jazwa, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), has found a pattern of the Chumash moving seasonally to use resources beyond the island coastline.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Timothy Holt, 27, formerly of Susanville, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to 21 months in prison and three years of supervised release for transportation of obscene matters, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Alessandra P. Serano (202) 252-5843 or Joseph Orabona (619) 546-7951.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain today announced calendar year 2018 affirmative civil enforcement (ACE) achievements by the U.S. Attorney’s Office Civil Division. As the 2018 achievements demonstrate, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (EDPA) continues to have one of the busiest and most prolific Civil Divisions in the country.
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 US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement after the State of the Union address by President Donald Trump...
