News from January 2019
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: HARTFORD, CT - The U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut ordered Eastern Awning Systems Inc. - a manufacturer of retractable fabric patio awnings based in Watertown, Connecticut - and its owner Stephen P. Lukos to pay a total of $160,000 to two discharged employees who filed safety and health complaints with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Universal Concrete Products Corporation (UCP) and its President and co-owner, Donald Faust, Jr., have agreed to pay $1 million to settle civil allegations that UCP falsified test records for concrete panels for the extension of the Silver Line, also known as Phase II of the Dulles Metrorail Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: A 10-count indictment unsealed today in the Western District of Washington State charges Huawei Device Co., Ltd. and Huawei Device Co. USA with theft of trade secrets conspiracy, attempted theft of trade secrets, seven counts of wire fraud, and one count of obstruction of justice. The indictment, returned...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Darrell Leon Jennings, 51, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today that David Wikel, president of Florida-based Therma-Seal Roof Systems, LLC, was charged with providing kickbacks in connection with the $1.7 million dollar federal government subcontract to retrofit the roof of the Ron de Lugo Federal Building in St. Thomas, VI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former Quincy man, who had been a fugitive for more than 20 years prior to his arrest in April 2017, was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a $1.9 million real estate investment fraud scheme in Quincy.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: With the government reopened and the House not scheduled to be in session on Thursday, Jan. 31, the Energy and Commerce Committee’s full Committee hearing scheduled for that day on the Trump federal government shutdown has been canceled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man with a prior felony conviction for bank robbery pleaded guilty in federal court today to robbing Guaranty Bank in Springfield.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Sunday, Feb. 3, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a special “Winter Vistas" driving and hiking tour of Chickamauga Battlefield. This 90-minute tour begins inside the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma Human Trafficking Task Force has named Assistant U.S. Attorney K. McKenzie Anderson as the recipient of its Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Fight Against Human Trafficking in Oklahoma, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. AUSA Anderson received the award on Jan. 24, 2019, at the task force’s candlelight vigil at the Oklahoma Bar Center as part of Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: FBI Director Christopher Wray’s Remarks Regarding Indictments of Huawei and Wanzhou Meng.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A retired highway patrol trooper was sentenced Monday to a year on federal probation for lying to the FBI during an investigation into illegal gambling in Wichita, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jesse Alan Clevenger, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to three years probation for possessing a firearm after two domestic violence convictions, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) sent a letter today to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler requesting information regarding EPA’s efforts to rollback critically important environmental and public health protections.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) sent a letter today to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler requesting information regarding EPA’s efforts to rollback critically important environmental and public health protections.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. today sentenced Alexander Rosado-Figueroa (45, Orlando) to six years and three months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute heroin and cocaine, while Rosado-Figueroa was on supervised release for a prior drug conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Former Louisville Metro Police officer Brandon Wood has been charged in a felony Information and pleaded guilty to attempted enticement, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jamiell Sims, age 30, of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Jan. 17, 2019, to 151 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for participating in a conspiracy that forced or coerced women to engage in prostitution in northeastern Pennsylvania, and for distributing heroin on four separate occasions in Monroe County.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: (Editor’s note: We are publishing the following news story today on research that appeared during the recent federal government shutdown. )
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Evelyn Katrina Taylor-Parks has been sentenced to federal prison for conspiring to accept bribe payments while she served as the City of Atlanta’s Deputy Chief of Staff to the Mayor.
