News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Joseph Michael Bragg, 40, of Columbus pleaded guilty to charges connected with at least a dozen threats he sent to a sheriff in Oklahoma during a two-month period in 2018, and threatening a Columbus FBI agent who came to Bragg’s residence to interview him.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: Member of Violent TTG Gang Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison for Federal Racketeering and Drug Conspiracies.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Wednesday, July 24, 2019, Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, will hold a hearing entitled “Beyond the Citizenship Question: Repairing the Damage and Preparing to Count ‘We the People’ in 2020."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. today sentenced Wesley Anderson (26, Coconut Creek) to seven years in federal prison, and Christopher Stewart (20, Miramar) to four years and nine months in federal prison for their roles in a counterfeiting check scheme. The court also ordered Anderson and Stewart to pay restitution to financial institutions in the total amount of almost $80,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: Hungary Subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation Agrees to Pay $8.7 Million in Criminal Penalties to Resolve Foreign Bribery Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging three Flint men with conspiring to rob a Sanilac County marijuana grow operation, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider. Joining Schneider in the announcement was Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Timothy R. Slater. Named in the federal indictment are.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: Baltimore Man Allegedly Posed as a Teenage Girl on Social Media and Other Platforms to Communicate With Teenage Boys; Law Enforcement Seeking Information About Possible Additional Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Donald Scott Crothers, 45, of Milford, Delaware was sentenced to 18 months’ incarceration and three years’ supervised release by United States District Judge R. Barclay Surrick for his role in a federal program bribery scheme involving millions of dollars in contracts with the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (“Amtrak"). Crothers’ co-defendant, John Gonzales, will be sentenced at a later date.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, released a staff report detailing how the evidence before the Committee to date does not show that the Trump Administration acted inappropriately in the proposed transfer of nuclear energy technology to Saudi Arabia.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. - The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking public input to reduce salinity and improve water quality along the Gould Canal in Delta and Montrose counties. Naturally-occurring salts in the sediment along the canal are picked up by the water and transported into the Colorado River system. The resulting reduction in water quality creates a negative economic impact to downstream infrastructure and crops.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA, Ga. - Thomas Cwik has been arraigned on federal charges of producing, distributing, receiving, and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Stoneham man was charged in federal court in Boston today in connection with drug trafficking activities involving fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, ALASKA - Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Superintendent Philip Hooge announced today the lifting of the 13-knot vessel speed limit around South Marble Island and increasing the speed limit in Lower Glacier Bay to 20 knots through the water. In the Lower Bay, the 20-knot speed limit...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: Grammy-nominated flutist Keith Bear shared his special gifts of Mandan-Hidatsa flute playing, singing, and storytelling with visitors to Knife River Indian Villages NHS on Saturday, July 20. He brought several flutes that he or his family made. Each flute had a special song and story.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Chesterfield, Virginia, man was issued a summons by police at Richmond International Airport yesterday, July 21, after a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer found a handgun loaded with eight bullets in the traveler’s carry-on bag.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will join businesses and organizations nationwide to recognize the importance and successes of workplace safety and health programs during Safe + Sound Week, August 12-18, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: Participate in an archeological research tour daily at 1pm from Tuesday, July 23rd through Thursday, August 1st. Visitors can watch the work anytime during the day. A special chance to talk with an archeologist from the crew will occur only at 1pm each day.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Lawrence Keefe, of the Northern District of Florida, announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted a Pensacola business owner for conspiring to sell and export power generating equipment to a recipient in Iran, and concealing the scheme, as well as...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Roxanne Adjutant, 49, of Stratford, pleaded guilty in federal court to distribution of Suboxone, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2019
News Release: North Carolina Tax Return Preparer Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Defraud the IRS.
