News from February 2019
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) from today’s hearing entitled, “Examining How Federal Infrastructure Policy Could Help Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change":
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced an indictment charging JEREMIAH KINGBIRD, 38, with first and second degree murder.[1] KINGBIRD made his initial appearance yesterday before Magistrate Judge Jon T. Huseby in U.S. District Court in Bemidji, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that RYAN S. CORTEZ, age 46, of Des Allemands, Louisiana, entered a plea of guilty Friday, Feb. 22, 2019 to Misappropriation of Postal Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1711.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Anthony Joseph Culotta (59, Merritt Island) has pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography. Culotta faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 5 years, and up to 20 years, in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An active-duty member of the U.S. Navy today admitted her role in a conspiracy to illegally purchase five semi-automatic handguns bound for New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Melissa Eula May, 44, of Knoxville, Tennessee, pleaded guilty on Feb. 25, 2019, to an information charging her with wire fraud. Sentencing has been set for 10:00 a.m., July 18, 2019, in United States District Court in Knoxville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - The former operations director of a Rock Island, Ill., child food program, Nora L. Steele, was sentenced today in federal court in Peoria, Ill., to nearly three years in prison for defrauding the government and filing a false tax return. Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Toms River man was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for distributing images of child sexual abuse over a social media application, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Toni Tinay, 24, of Oakley, pleaded guilty today to bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and possession of reproduced U.S. Postal Service keys, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Prepared remarks of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) from today’s House Floor consideration of H.J. Res. 46 (National Emergency Declaration Termination Resolution):
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Two Businessmen Charged with Foreign Bribery in Connection with Venezuela Bribery Scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
Release: Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL), Chair of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on "Leveraging Private Capital For Underserved Communities and Individuals: A Look Into Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BILLY RIBEIRO ANDERSON, a/k/a “Anderson Albuquerque," a/k/a “AlfabetoVirtual," was sentenced today to three months in prison for obtaining unauthorized access to and committing defacements of the websites...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
Release: The number of firearms caught by Transportation Security Administration officers at checkpoints at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) have increased at an alarming rate this year as TSA officers caught the seventh gun of the year yesterday, Feb. 25, just nine weeks into the year. In 2018...
By State Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary Pompeo and Acting Secretary Shanahan...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and government and industry members of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force gathered in Washington this week and last week as part of the Task Force’s ongoing efforts to identify...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Palmdale, California, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Bank Robbery.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Today, Committee Democrats held markups on two tired, empty, and utterly unworkable bills. H.R. 865, the Rebuild America’s Schools Act, will result in $70 billion in costs to taxpayers, increased costs to states and school districts, and considerable bureaucracy and red tape in exchange for little grants ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Joseph Orlando Hood, a previously convicted felon, has been convicted by a federal jury of several armed commercial robberies, including three Waffle House Restaurants and a United Inn and Suites Motel.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Prescription drugs did not become outrageously expensive by accident. It’s not the result of a system too complicated for Americans to comprehend. Drug prices are astronomically high because that’s where pharmaceutical companies and their investors want them. The brakes have come off pharmaceutical pricing, and American families are hurtling along in the passenger seat terrified of what comes next.
