News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Carlos Francisco Lopez, 30, of Los Angeles, CA, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity and attempting to transport a minor across state lines to engage in sexual activity. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years and a maximum of life in prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Democratic congressional leaders who oversee Social Security and federal employee rights in the House and Senate today urged newly-confirmed Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul to work in good faith with federal employee unions at the Social Security Administration (SSA) to reverse anti-union actions from the Trump administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Today, an Owensboro man admitted in federal court that he participated in a conspiracy to defraud health insurance programs of more than $1.3 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: Burlington, VT - The U.S. Marshals Service, District of Vermont arrested a fugitive wanted by the state of Vermont for sexual assault of a minor under 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Deondray Warren, a/k/a “Main," a/k/a “Maine," 33, of Rochester, New York, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack," distributing heroin and crack, and conspiring to violate federal firearms laws.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: The first Commissioner of Social Security began his tenure on July 16, 1946.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, expanding its Federal Records Act investigation and seeking all records relating to government work from her personal email accounts after a new Inspector General report revealed she violated the law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Vivienne Yvette Sellers (78, Palm Harbor) to five years in federal prison for receiving child pornography. The court also ordered Sellers to forfeit the electronic devices that she used in the commission of the offense.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released the following statement on the Department of the Interior’s decision to relocate the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: Horseshoe Bend National Military Park invites the public to attend its annual symposium at Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities (also known as Pebble Hill) in Auburn, AL. This free event will be Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019 from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Earnest Parrie Dille, of Morgantown, West Virginia, appeared in federal court today after being indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Clarksburg on July 9, 2019 for failing to register as a sex offender, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: Martinsburg, WV - On July 10th, members of the U.S. Marshals Service led Mountain State Fugitive Task Force located and arrested a Martinsburg man in Clarksburg, WV who was the last fugitive on the run from a drug conspiracy indictment handed down in federal court in March 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of 10 counts of Wire Fraud and 8 counts of Mail Fraud was sentenced on July 15, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that as part of an enforcement operation focused on and around the Seneca Allegany Indian Reservation, two defendants have been charged with narcotics conspiracy in two separate cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JOAQUIN ENRIQUE LOPEZ-JIRON, age 33, a citizen of Honduras, was charged on Wednesday, July 10, 2019 in a one-count bill of information with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. ' 1326.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee and Chris Coons, along with Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.), released the following statements reacting to the news of elevated levels of PFAS contamination measured in the drinking water supplies of communities surrounding Dover Air Force Base.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: The House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, July 16th at 2: 0 p.m. to examine the impact of market power of online platforms on innovation and entrepreneurship. The Subcommittee will hear from two panels of witnesses, including representatives from Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple, as well as leading policy experts on competition in digital markets.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: The House Energy and Commerce and House Appropriations Committees today pushed back against proposed changes by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to its Reactor Oversight Process (ROP), the program that monitors and manages the performance and safety measures governing nuclear power plants.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: Inspired by the permanent exhibition at the National Museum of American History, “American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith" opens to the public July 20, 2019, in the Gettysburg Museum of the American Civil War at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum & Visitor Center. The exhibit will close Nov. 10, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that BAYRON MARTINEZ-RODRIGUEZ, age 28, a native of Honduras, was charged on Tuesday, July 15, 2019 in a one-count bill of information with Illegally using a Social Security number in order to obtain employment, in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
