News from January 2019
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: Following a two day trial, a federal jury returned a verdict of guilty on Tuesday in the prosecution of a 35-year-old Tulsa man for shooting and wounding a Tulsa police officer at a local Quik Trip on July 3, 2018, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), released Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator and nominee Andrew Wheeler's responses to questions for the record.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a man from Alexandria was sentenced on Jan. 14, 2019 to 12 months in prison for stealing $8,600 from the Jena Choctaw Pines Casino.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Brandon Lee Wright, 33, a federal inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Yazoo City (FCI Yazoo), was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to 78 months in federal prison for assaulting a corrections officer at the Bureau of Prisons facility, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A former correctional officer at the Federal Correctional Complex in Victorville has been sentenced to 24 months in prison for sexually abusing several female inmates while on duty.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM’s Savannah River Field Office recently awarded its liquid waste contractor more than $12.5 million of nearly $13.2 million in available fee for the performance evaluation period of Jan. 1, 2018 through May 31, 2018.
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: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced a former Charlotte-area minister, William Todd Coontz, 51, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to 60 months in prison, for failure to pay taxes and aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns, announced Andrew Murray, U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: For Conspiring To Rob And Aiding And Abetting The Robbery.
By DOE 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: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a man from Alexandria was sentenced on Jan. 14, 2019 to 12 months in prison for stealing $8,600 from the Jena Choctaw Pines Casino.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Nizam Hasheem Alexander, 39, employed since 2009 as a Special Agent by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (‘FBI") at its Little Rock, Arkansas Field Office until his resignation on Jan. 28, 2019, pled guilty to a one count Information - embezzlement of Government property. Alexander appeared before Judge Henry Autrey today who accepted his plea and set his sentencing for April 30, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: HAGERSTOWN, Md. - The National Park Service (NPS) is working with local communities to relocate the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal) headquarters from Hagerstown to Williamsport, Md.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing on the nomination of Nicole R. Nason to be administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Fifth Defendant Sentenced to Prison for Sophisticated International Cellphone Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Shreveport felon pleaded guilty on Jan. 15, 2019 to lying on an application to buy a firearm at a pawnshop.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. stated today: “I was pleased to return the United States Attorney’s Office to full operations this morning following the resolution of the lapse in appropriations by our leadership in Washington. And as we resume normal operations, I want to thank...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A jury convicted Billings resident Antonio Francisco Gutierrez on January 16 in the 2018 armed robbery of Dotty’s Casino following a three-day trial, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said today.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has extended early bird registration rates for the 2019 Agricultural Outlook Forum (AOF) until Feb. 6. The forum, the largest annual meeting of USDA, will take place on Feb. 21-22, 2019, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Va.
