News from July 2019
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City - 1943.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $477 million in airport infrastructure grants, the third allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On July 10, 2019, the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, led by Chairman Jamie Raskin, will hold a hearing examining how the Trump Administration’s deterrence policies are creating a humanitarian crisis and jeopardizing the health and safety of the migrant children and families.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Two Kansas City area chiropractors have paid $350,000 to settle allegations that they submitted false claims to Medicare, U.S. Attorney Steven McAllister said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Paul Ragusa, an associate of the Bonanno and Gambino organized crime families, was sentenced by United States District Judge Pamela K. Chen to 72 months’ imprisonment for possessing nine firearms, including three automatic assault rifles and a silencer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of BARRY RON SKOG, 68, to 30 months in prison for perpetrating a counterfeit coin fraud scheme. SKOG, who pleaded guilty on Feb. 21, 2019, was sentenced earlier today before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Three members of a Pike County family have been sentence to federal prison for their involvement in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine in Pike County. On Monday, United States District Judge Robert E. Wier sentenced Roy Blankenship to 85 months in prison. Today, Blankenship’s wife, Shirley Blankenship, and his brother, Larry Blankenship, were sentenced to 34 and 33 months, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Thomas Moir, 37, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty to distribution of child pornography stemming from his actions sharing child pornography with users on a social networking site from October 2018 -January 2019, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $477 million in airport infrastructure grants, the third allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $477 million in airport infrastructure grants, the third allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Indictment Includes Allegations of Murder, a Shootout Where an Unarmed Bystander was Shot, and a Planned Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Homer Lee Basquez, age 38, of El Reno, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 48 months’ imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for Felon In Possession Of Firearm, in violation of Title 18, United...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: FAIRBANKS, AK - The Bureau of Land Management’s Central Yukon Field Office today issued a Fire Prevention Order temporarily prohibiting open fires (except at established campgrounds), fireworks, exploding targets and explosives on the public lands it manages in central Alaska. The order, which goes into effect tonight at midnight and lasts until fire conditions improve, follows similar BLM fire restrictions for east-central Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, Aiding and Abetting Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, and Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: A Toledo man was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison for selling heroin that resulted in the fatal overdose of two women.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Estvanico Mack, 35, of Jackson, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana K. Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Raudy Acosta Fernandez, age 32, of Richardson, Texas, was sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment and 1 year supervised release for Aggravated Identity Theft, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028A(a)(1). The charge arose from an investigation by the Chickasaw Nation Lighthorse Police Department and the United States Secret Service.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $477 million in airport infrastructure grants, the third allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Izmir Koch, 34, of Huber Heights, Ohio, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for beating a man he believed to be Jewish outside of a Cincinnati restaurant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to nine and a half years in prison for possessing and attempting to sell a 9mm pistol with an obliterated serial number and a bulletproof vest.
