News from July 2019
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $478 million in airport infrastructure grants, the fourth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced William Lamont Holder, age 54, of Hanover, Maryland, to 18 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing between $550,000 and $1.5 million worth of wine from his clients, primarily private collectors and commercial establishments. Judge Blake also ordered that Holder pay restitution of $1.5 million.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $478 million in airport infrastructure grants, the fourth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the sentencing of ELIZABETH ANN BERGER, 58, to one year and one day in prison for stealing thousands of dollars in Social Security benefits from vulnerable adults. BERGER, who pleaded guilty to one count of theft of government funds on April 1, 2019, was sentenced yesterday by Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Jose Ramon Romero Deloera, 24, a legal permanent resident in the United States from Mexico, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 70 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possessing with intent to distribute heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Fighting for seniors’ dignity and respect.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An MS-13 member previously named one of the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives was sentenced today to 300 months in prison for killing a Plainfield, New Jersey, man on behalf of the gang, and agreeing that a conspirator would commit multiple violent acts for the gang, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Defendant Sexually Abused and Attempted to Sexually Abuse Five Female Inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Angela Dawn White, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was sentenced today to five years probation for her participation in a methamphetamine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that BEVAN COONEY was sentenced today by the U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams to 30 months in prison for defrauding a Native American tribal entity and various investment advisory clients of tens of millions of dollars in connection with the issuance of bonds by the tribal entity and the subsequent sale of those bonds through fraudulent and deceptive means.
By State Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a business meeting during which members approved one piece of legislation, S. 1441, Protecting Europe's Energy Security Act of 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A convicted felon from Montgomery, West Virginia, who was caught in possession of a firearm was sentenced today to 33 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Timothy Gibbs II, 29, previously entered a guilty plea to possession of a firearm by a prohibited...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following opening statement at the hearing titled Perspectives on Reauthorization of the U.S. Grain Standards Act.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $478 million in airport infrastructure grants, the fourth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Join Rocky Mountain National Park's Climbing Rangers on Thursday, August 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center to learn about climbing Longs Peak. This presentation will discuss various climbing routes and lessons learned, with a focus on how to prepare for and manage risks for a successful ascent and descent of the classic Keyhole Route.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: * The Chittenden Road and trailhead parking area, and the Mount Washburn Trail via the Chittenden Road will close August 6-8, 2019. See map for details.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 42-year-old Dennis Edward Stephen of San Antonio, to 15 years in federal prison for robbing multiple San Antonio banks and stealing approximately $479,000, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, F.B.I. Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and San Antonio Police Chief William McManus.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri has filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against two men previously charged in two area murders.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A member of the Lightfoot-Mendoza Drug Trafficking Organization has pleaded guilty to a federal narcotics charge, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Norris, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, Failure to Appear, and Distribution of a Controlled Substance, was sentenced on July 29, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
