News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that CHARLES WILLIAMS, JR. (“WILLIAMS"), age 49, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 18, 2019 and charged with twenty-two (22) counts of wire fraud and three (3) counts of making false statements to special agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI").
By State Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today expressed his strong opposition to the Trump Administration’s signing of an agreement with Guatemala deeming it a country adequately safe to receive asylum seekers who have reached the United States (“Safe Third Country Agreement")...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment against FAYSAL SAYID, 40, and MUHUMED ALI, 36, charging them with multiple counts of income tax evasion and with conspiracy to defraud the United States. SAYID and ALI are currently scheduled to make their initial appearances on August 9, 2019, before Magistrate Judge Hildy Bowbeer in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: A 38-year-old Seattle man who persisted in trafficking methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine, despite repeated run-ins with law enforcement, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 11 years in prison and 5 years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. MICHAEL LAVON...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: WESTBURY, NY - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited U.S. Nonwovens Corp. - a home and personal care fabric product manufacturer - for repeat and serious safety violations after an employee suffered a fractured hand at the plant in Hauppauge, New York. The company faces $287,212 in penalties.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue Friday, Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11), Chair of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations, expressed her strong opposition to a proposed rule that would eliminate states’ use of broad-based categorical eligibility under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Bronx Man Arrested for Attempting to Provide Material Support for Terrorism.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Mark Antonio Sanders has been sentenced for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. Sanders has previous felony convictions related to multiple Atlanta shootings, including a 2004 federal conviction for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By State Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) released the following statement after voting in favor of H.R. 549, the Venezuela TPS Act, designating Venezuelan nationals as eligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Committee Goes to Court for Mueller Grand Jury Material
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Kira Lee Encarnacion, 41, of St. Croix, pled guilty on July 26, 2019, in District Court to one count of Federal Program Theft, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: A 38-year-old Seattle man who persisted in trafficking methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine, despite repeated run-ins with law enforcement, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 11 years in prison and 5 years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. MICHAEL LAVON...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Coeur d’Alene, Idaho - Active logging operations on the Blue Creek West timber sale will begin the week of July 29. The project addresses hazardous fuels reduction and will improve forest health conditions in the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wallace Forest Conservation Area (WFCA) at Blue Creek...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, a criminal defense attorney, Scott Brettschneider, was sentenced by United States District Judge Carol B. Amon to 60 days of confinement in a community center, 4 years of probation, 80 hours of community service, and fined $2,000 for conspiring to make, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Pennsylvania man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a scam in which he and co-conspirators defrauded victims by pretending to be employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Kira Lee Encarnacion, 41, of St. Croix, pled guilty on July 26, 2019, in District Court to one count of Federal Program Theft, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Detroit man was convicted late yesterday, by a federal jury sitting in Lexington, of conspiring to distribute both oxycodone and fentanyl and distribution of fentanyl resulting in an overdose death.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Herndon man was sentenced today to one year in prison for cyberstalking a victim in New York.
By State Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representatives Michael McCaul, Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Eliot Engel, Chairman of the Committee, this week introduced legislation supporting the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Las Vegas Field Office is seeking public comment on a proposal to lease 30 acres of public land to the Clark County School District for development of a middle school and related facilities. The parcel is located along portions of Erie Avenue, Levi Avenue, and Montessouri Street in the southwest portion of the Las Vegas Valley.
