News from January 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: A Lisbon man was indicted for child pornography crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Kevin Douglas Jenkins, 35, of Pelahatchie, pled guilty on Friday, before Chief United States District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, to the production of child pornography and the production of child pornography by a person who has custody of a minor, announced United States Attorney Mike Hurst, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze, and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The opening of a museum gallery here displays the Savannah River Site ’s (SRS) historic and ongoing role in environmental stewardship to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Robert Bowers Charged with 63 Counts Including Hate Crimes Resulting in Death.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: “Like in Spokane, Washington-where new opioid-addiction treatment services, initiated to combat the opioid epidemic, were jeopardized by the funding freeze.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Leaders sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler today renewing their request from last year for information on actions taken by political appointees at the agency to block the release of a chemical hazard...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MIGUEL MARTINEZ, also known as “Nitro," 34, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for firearm and drug offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams today announced that U-Haul Company of Pennsylvania and Miguel Rivera, the general manager of U-Haul’s Hunting Park location, pled guilty today to two felony counts of violating hazardous materials regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Jan. 29, 2018 - George David George, 63, of Franklin, Tennessee, appeared before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Nashville yesterday after being captured by U.S. Marshals in Jacksonville, Florida earlier this month, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee. George absconded in May 2017 prior to a scheduled bond revocation hearing in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux City, Iowa, man convicted of Interference with Commerce by Threats and Violence was sentenced on Dec. 20, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Leaders sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler today renewing their request from last year for information on actions taken by political appointees at the agency to block the release of a chemical hazard...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - WellBound of Memphis will pay $3,246,000 to the United States and the State of Tennessee to resolve allegations of false claims to Medicare, Tricare and Tenncare for services rendered to home dialysis patients at its Memphis facility. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public scoping comments on offering approximately 4,804 acres of federal oil and gas leases on public lands managed by the Royal Gorge field office in Lincoln, Weld, and Kiowa counties in the upcoming June 2019 competitive oil and gas lease sale.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced Ways and Means Chief Tax Counsel and Tax Policy Subcommittee Staff Director Barbara Angus will be departing the Committee staff. With Angus’s departure, Randell J. Gartin, current Ways and Means Tax Counsel, will now serve as Ways and Means Republican Chief Tax Counsel and Republican Staff Director of the Tax Policy Subcommittee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the House Steering Committee recommended Reps. Jodey Arrington (R-TX), Drew Ferguson (R-GA), and Ron Estes (R-KS) to serve on the Ways and Means Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: A man who was serving a fifteen year federal prison sentence when he tried to hire a "hitman" to murder two people in Northeast Iowa was convicted by a jury today after a six-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Dehavalon Cook, age 46, of Belleville, Illinois, pleaded guilty today to falsifying records in a federal bankruptcy proceeding. Cook previously filed a petition for Chapter 13 bankruptcy in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. In March of 2018, Cook doctored a fake letter from the Chapter 13 trustee authorizing him to incur new debt for the purchase of an automobile. The bogus letter included the name and signature of the trustee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chukwuemeka Ekwonna, age 29, of Glenn Dale, Maryland, pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland to two counts of Sex Trafficking of a Minor. Between October 2016 and February 2017, Ekwonna, who at the time was a police officer with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, D.C., engaged in sexual conduct with two girls, who were 14 and 15 years old, in exchange for money.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging James Timpanaro, 54, of Buffalo, NY, with causing a pipe bomb hoax and contempt of court order. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a hearing on the nomination of Nicole R. Nason to be administrator of the Federal Highway Administration.
