News from January 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2019
News Release: HEARING WILL FOCUS ON RESTORING VOTING RIGHTS, PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF OUR ELECTIONS AND REFORMING ETHICS LAWS
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A Democratic forum yesterday led by Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.) and Chairman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) revealed severe shutdown impacts across the country, from renewable energy to tourism to tribal consultation, and underscored the Trump administration’s brazen favoritism toward the oil and gas industry throughout the shutdown.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Moroccan man was sentenced today to 5 years in prison for assaulting federal law enforcement officers and failing to depart the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2019
News Release: Statement from Virgin Islands National Park on the Resumption of Full Operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man was sentenced today to nine years in prison for robbing three banks and one credit union.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A former Sugar Land resident has been arrested and detained for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers and Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI’s Houston Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2019
News Release: The federal prison sentence for Detrick L. Layfield just got a lot longer. The 40-year-old inmate has been sentenced to nearly eight more years in custody for assaulting another prisoner with a makeshift weapon at the federal correctional institution in Greenville, Illinois. The 92-month sentence Layfield...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 25, 2019
News Release: Chairman Lisa Murkowski , R-Alaska, and Ranking Member Joe Manchin , D-W.Va., yesterday convened a roundtable with domestic and international dignitaries and policy leaders to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the Arctic region. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, the co-founder of the Senate Arctic Caucus along with Murkowski, also attended the event.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Three men from southwest Kansas were sentenced to 25, 26 and 30 years imprisonment on charges of conspiring to detonate a bomb at an apartment complex in Garden City where Muslim immigrants lived, announced Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker; United States Attorney for the District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A former Sugar Land resident has been arrested and detained for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers and Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI’s Houston Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2019
News Release: Travis J. Varble, 42, of Alton, Illinois, has pleaded guilty to producing and distributing child pornography using a minor identified in court documents as "K.M." The offenses were committed between December 2012 and December 2013 in Madison County, Illinois. Varble is currently in state custody at the Danville Correctional Center serving a 17-year sentence for predatory criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a minor under 13 years old.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL BONANNO, a New York City Police Department (“NYPD") detective, pled guilty today to his role in a bank fraud scheme that used stolen checks and bank account numbers from New York-based victims.
By State Newswire | Jan 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Rep. Michael McCaul, the Committee’s Ranking Member; Rep. Karen Bass; and Rep. Christopher H. Smith, today introduced legislation strongly condemning the attack on the 14 Riverside Complex in Nairobi, Kenya perpetrated by the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab (H.Res. 75).
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on President Trump’s decision to sign a three-week continuing resolution to fund the federal government and end his shutdown...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2019
News Release: Yesterday, a federal grand jury for the Southern District of Illinois returned an indictment charging Tamecia C. Buckley, 36, of Belleville, Illinois, and Kyetia M. Hines, 36, also of Belleville, with conspiracy and wire fraud, announced Steven D. Weinhoeft, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. The charges arise from a scheme to purchase new automobiles in false names.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tommy Calhoun, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced to 12 months incarceration for his involvement in an illegal firearms operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, United States Customs and Border Protection released new information regarding the number of family units apprehended along the southwest border and the demographics of large groups apprehended in recent months by the United States Border Patrol (USBP). As of today, USBP has ...
By Commerce News Now | Jan 24, 2019
The US Commerce Department published a two page proposed rule on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 24, 2019
News Release: Written Statement of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Session on Shaping the Future of Mobility Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019 Our world is in the midst of a truly revolutionary era in transportation. New technologies such as drones and autonomous vehicles ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement in response to breaking news that a supervisor overruled two career officials who recommended against granting Jared Kushner a top secret security clearance based on foreign influence concerns...
