News from July 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to Politico reporting that former staffers for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell lobbied for a Kentucky rolling mill supported by the Russian company Rusal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A federal jury has returned guilty verdicts against a 43-year-old man for his involvement in a conspiracy involving the transportation of illegal aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man who was arrested after a drug investigation pled guilty to federal drug trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. David Bond, 38, entered guilty pleas to two counts of distribution of heroin and one count of distribution of fentanyl. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the DEA High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Steven Ferguson, 40, of Wayne County, was sentenced today to nine months in prison for being a prohibited person while possessing ammunition, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
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 DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) made the following statement after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced their new action plan for the safe importation of certain prescription drugs.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: 01 - Sea Colony Beach Patrol, DE - Alexandra Santer.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) made the following statement after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced their new action plan for the safe importation of certain prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Gregory Jobe, age 31, was sentenced today to 180 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Distribution of Heroin. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: ALBANY - Two defendants with lengthy criminal histories involved in separate felony gun cases in the Valdosta, Georgia area entered guilty pleas for their crimes this afternoon, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Clifford Timothy Bradley...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jarrud Michael Dixon, of New Market, Maryland, was sentenced today to one year probation for falsifying a record during a gun purchase, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy today issued an order to Gulf LNG Liquefaction Company, LLC (GLLC) approving exports of domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Gulf LNG Liquefaction Project, which will be located in Jackson County, Mississippi, ...
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 DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Orlando Hernandez, age 33, formerly of Florida, was sentenced on July 30, 2019, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to serve an additional fifteen months in prison on the charge of assault on a corrections officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael Christopher Morgan, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced to 120 months incarceration for his role in a heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine distribution operation in Randolph County, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Hingham man who was convicted earlier this year of money laundering has been indicted by a federal grand jury on new charges of wire fraud, unlawful monetary transactions and money laundering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the sentencing of ANDRE MATHIS, JR., a/k/a Isaac Brown, 33, AMOS KIPROP KOECH, 44, for sex trafficking a 15-year-old minor. MATHIS, who pleaded guilty on Jan. 10, 2019, was sentenced to 292 months in prison. KOECH, who was convicted by a federal...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Telescopes will be set up at the Oxbow Overlook, 14 miles from the park entrance. Constellation tours will be offered as soon as stars are visible, at approximately 10:00 p.m. CDT. In addition, the sun can be viewed through solar telescopes at the Longhorn Pullout on Saturday afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Summerset, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of Child Pornography was sentenced on July 26, 2019, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Crystal Smith Fraudulently Billed Medicaid for more than $100,000.
