News from February 2019
By DOL Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: NOKOMIS, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Olin Landscaping - based in Venice, Florida - for failing to protect employees working in excessive heat after an employee succumbed to fatal heat-related symptoms while performing lawn maintenance at a residence in Nokomis, Florida.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
Release: Washington, DC, Feb. 28, 2019 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today reiterated during a U.S. Senate hearing the need to restore the original intent of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which is to be a second chance and not a way of life. Secretary Perdue’s comments...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Beverly man was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston for sending nine letters, one of which contained a white powder, to the online dating website OkCupid.com.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, March 16, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will conduct a special 2-hour car caravan tour of Chickamauga Battlefield focusing on stories associated with African American resistance and rebellion connected to Chickamauga. This tour begins inside the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Malden man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud his employer, a large facilities services company with offices in the Greater Boston area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Former Las Vegas illusionist Jan Rouven Fuechtener was sentenced today to 240 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $500,000 fine for possession, receipt, and distribution of more than 9,000 images and videos of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced a Notice of Sale of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national, illegally present in the United States, was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for failure to register as a sex offender as required under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Freddie Silva Otero, 49, of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 57 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that two men have been sentenced in Hartford federal court for their participation in a Southeastern Connecticut heroin trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Roanoke, WV - Acting U.S. Marshal for the district of Western Virginia Richard Sellers and Bluefield, Virginia, Police Chief M. Shane Gunter today announced that the reward for information leading to the capture of fugitive Donquale Gray, who is wanted for attempted capital murder of a Bluefield police officer during a traffic stop in Bluefield Feb. 16, has been raised to $25,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Jevon Chrzanowski, age 44, of Liberty, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute 50 Grams or More of Methamphetamine and Possession of a Firearm...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman John Lewis announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing, entitled “Hearing with the National Taxpayer Advocate on the IRS Filing Season" on Thursday, March 7, 2019, at 10:00 a.m., in room 2020 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Torri McCray, 40, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, fentanyl, and 10 grams of 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 Homeland Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, met with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to discuss Michigan’s top homeland security needs. Peters released the following statement on the meeting...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, NY - One Kingsmen Motorcycle Club (KMC) leader and member who committed execution style murders were sentenced for their roles in a major racketeering operation that involved violence and murder.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, spoke at the Center for American Progress’ event, “An Equity and Opportunity Agenda for Higher Education," about her vision for higher education and how to improve our nation’s landmark higher education law, the Higher Education Act, to help students succeed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kanawha County man pled guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Kyle Randolph Thompson, 31, of Cross Lanes, pled guilty to one count of distribution of methamphetamine. The South Charleston Police Department conducted the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that on Feb. 27, 2019, Elias K. Davie, age 37, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Andrews to 24 months incarceration. Davie pled guilty to making false statements to a licensed firearms dealer in the acquisition of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of JAMAAL MARQUIE MAYS, 34, to 180 months in prison for the armed robbery of an Inver Grove Heights business. MAYS and his co-defendant, JAQUON KESHAWN MOMAN, 26, were charged in a superseding indictment on February 7, 2018. MAYS...
