News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Stormetta Hawkins, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 12 months incarceration for her role in a methamphetamine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeks Identity of Unknown Bank Robber in Brentwood, Tennessee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Chair Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. A. Donald McEachin (D-Va.) hosted a historic all-day environmental justice convening in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, featuring an interactive tool allowing advocates from around the country to weigh in on the principles underlying a forthcoming...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON DC, June 28, 2019 - The 2018 Farm Bill mandated changes to the treatment of cover crops for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs, which add more flexibility to when cover crops must be terminated while remaining eligible for crop insurance. USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA), Natural...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General William P. Barr declared a law enforcement emergency in rural Alaska under the Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Program today, making $6 million immediately available to the state of Alaska for critical law enforcement needs of Alaska Native villages.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Lewis D. Higgins, 54, of Ruma, Illinois, has been sentenced to 168 months in federal prison on a methamphetamine violation, U.S. Attorney Steven D. Weinhoeft announced today. Higgins previously pleaded guilty to a single-count indictment charging conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine. His sentence included a four-year term of supervised release and a fine of $200.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Oklahoma City - PAE Applied Technologies, LLC, has agreed to pay $4,200,000 to settle civil claims stemming from allegations that it submitted false claims to the United States Air Force, announced Timothy J. Downing, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - A Philadelphia drug trafficker with ties to Wilmington was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Leonard P. Stark on Wednesday, June 26, 2019, to 13 years in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine. According to court documents and statements made in open court, defendant Robert...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park announces the upcoming flight plans for July 2019.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today requesting a review of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) drug inspection program following a series of recent recalls of contaminated blood pressure...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: A bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today requesting a review of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) drug inspection program following a series of recent recalls of contaminated blood pressure medications that were...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Mouhamed Camara, age 29, of Reisterstown, Maryland to 10 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release for Carjacking, and Using, Carrying, and Brandishing a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging ERRIE McCLENDON, also known as “Buck," 28, of New Haven, with one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA and CAMDEN - United States Attorneys William M. McSwain for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Craig Carpenito for the District of New Jersey jointly announced that Our Lady of Lourdes Health Foundation and two related Our Lady of Lourdes companies have agreed to pay $1,143,881.19 to resolve claims arising from Lourdes’ administration of community service grants funded through the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On June 27, 2019, Kenneth Francis Lee, 48, of Sevierville, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, U.S. District Judge, to serve 36 months in federal prison for tax evasion and willful failure to file tax returns. Upon his release from prison, Lee will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for 3 years. Lee was also ordered to pay $372,531 to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Dear Administrator Verma: Co-location and shared space arrangements under the Medicare program allow hospitals to share space, services and staff with other providers. Hospitals located in rural and frontier communities often choose to enter into these special arrangements with other hospitals, hospital...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Aaron West, 38, of Westbrook, Maine pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to two counts of bank robbery. The charges arose from robberies in January 2018 and March 2019 of a credit union in Falmouth and a bank in Portland, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Forsyth County man who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography was sentenced to 13-1/2 years in prison today, announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Wilbert Green, Jr., age 30, of Columbia, was sentenced to over 4 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
