News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Kareem Salem (619) 546-8904.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Derek Whitfield, 36, of St. Louis, pled guilty to federal charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm; possession with intent to distribute fentanyl; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime. He appeared in federal court this afternoon before U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey who accepted his guilty plea and set sentencing for May 28, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Jhonnita L. Williams, a former department administrator at the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), has been sentenced for her part in a false-invoice scheme that resulted in MARTA paying more than $520,000 for maintenance projects where no worked was actually performed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO -Amer Sinan Alhaggagi was sentenced today to 188 months in prison for attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and identity theft charges, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Charles R. Breyer, Senior U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Essex County, New Jersey, men have been sentenced to prison for their respective roles in a phony check scheme that stole more than $2 million in merchandise from multiple home-improvement stores throughout the country, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM and cleanup contractor CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV) have safely completed the disposition of waste from the demolition of the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) Site’s vitrification plant.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Danurell Blair, age 40, of Anderson, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Theresa L. Springmann after pleading guilty to 2 counts of Bank Robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Upcoming Lake Mead National Recreation Area Events Feb 28 - April 13.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: I want to welcome the witnesses and thank them for being here.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Drug Enforcement Administration today announced the launch of an enhanced system to help more than 1,500 registered drug manufacturers and distributors nationwide more effectively identify potential illicit drug diversion and combat the opioid epidemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio today, authorities filed a federal criminal complaint against three San Antonio residents who were arrested last night while attempting to distribute over four kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Bash and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Juan Ramon-Vasquez, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today to 21 months’ imprisonment, to be served consecutive to his state sentence, for his federal crime of illegal reentry to the United States after deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that BENITO ORBE-SANTANA, age 43, a native of Mexico, pleaded guilty Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019 to a one-count indictment, which charged him with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI -United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today that charges have been unsealed against Juli Campbell and three others for fraud related to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Sheltering and Temporary Essential Power (STEP) Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced CALVIN BRUCE BEARD, a/k/a "40 Cal.", 39, of Fayetteville to 262 months’ imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised released.
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: 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 Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Pharma execs should stop grandstanding and work to lower prescription prices.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) sent a letter to the Director of the Centers for Disease...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: One of the core missions of the EPA is one that I think we all agree with - for Americans to have clean air, clean land, and clean water. The EPA works toward this worthy goal through a variety of means, including partnerships with state and local governments, grants to states, non-profits, educational...
