News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: A Jupiter resident pled guilty yesterday to committing a string of robberies in Palm Beach and Martin Counties in 2017 and 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JESSE MARCUS ESTES, age 44, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud before U.S. District Judge Lance M. Africk.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mark Tasky, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Regional Office of the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (“DHS-OIG"), and Margaret Garnett, Commissioner, New York City Department of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Hattiesburg, Mississippi woman pleaded guilty today for her role in a $200 million scheme to defraud health care benefit programs, including TRICARE, which is the program that covers U.S. military service members and their families.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - On Monday, February 4, 2019, Manuel Alberto Fuentes-Acosta, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge George Cannon, Jr., to reentry of removed alien, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Utah Man Charged With Hate Crimes For Attacking Three Men With a Metal Pole.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Alvaro Garcia, 30, of Manchester, was sentenced to 85 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Shannon Battle, 39, of Bangor, Maine was sentenced to 36 months in prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Pine Nut Mountains Wild Horse Gather will be suspended today due to weather. The gather may be resumed later in 2019 sometime after foaling season. The gather ran from February 7 through February 19. The BLM gathered and removed 340 excess wild horses from public and private lands in and outside the Pine Nut Mountains Herd Management Area in western Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Marvin Dennis was convicted of committing heroin and crack cocaine trafficking and firearm crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found EDDY PENA, 30, of Providence, Rhode Island, guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute, and to possess with intent to distribute, one kilogram or more of heroin. The trial before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea began on February 11 and the jury returned the verdict this morning.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Dear Administrator Verma: We are writing to express our serious concerns regarding policies included in the proposed rule, published on Jan. 24, 2019, “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2020." The proposed rule is yet another example of this...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - HouseCommittee on Natural Resources Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) today announced Parish Braden as Republican Staff Director for the Committee and the appointment of key senior staff for the 116thCongress.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management is seeking nominations for the 2019 Reclamation and Sustainable Mineral Development Awards. These awards recognize those initiatives to foster sustainable development of natural resources, which encourages environmental health, social responsibility, and economic security.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Ronald Roscoe, 56, of Traverse City, Michigan, pleaded guilty yesterday to attempted enticement of a minor, travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, and transporting material involving sexual exploitation of minors. The guilty plea was announced by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City, Utah, returned a three- count indictment Wednesday morning charging Alan D. Covington with violating 18 U.S.C. § 249 (hate crime) for attacking three men with a metal pole because he believed the men were Mexican, announced Eric Dreiband, Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 52-year-old Stacey A. Sanders, the former office manager of Memorial Presbyterian Church, located in Fredericksburg, TX, to 27 months imprisonment in connection with a scheme to write and sign unauthorized checks on the church’s bank accounts, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Cumberland Gap National Historical Park (NHP) Ranger Pamela Eddy was recently selected as the recipient of the 2018 Freeman Tilden Award for the Southeast Region of the National Park Service (NPS). The Freeman Tilden Award is the highest recognition given in the National Park Service for excellence in interpretation and education. This prestigious award has been presented annually since 1981.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Hattiesburg, Mississippi woman pleaded guilty today for her role in a $200 million scheme to defraud health care benefit programs, including TRICARE, which is the program that covers U.S. military service members and their families.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Feb. 20, 2019 - An indictment was unsealed today, charging Diana Threadgill, 66, of Memphis, Tennessee, with three counts of mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee. Threadgill was arrested by federal agents this morning and will appear before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Memphis later today.
