News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh has issued three separate, but related, indictments, charging 33 residents of southwestern Pennsylvania with narcotics trafficking and firearm possession, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that it will invest $32 million over the next four years to accelerate the design of new materials through use of supercomputers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. - Seven people were arrested in connection with an alleged advance fee loan scheme that affected more than 35 identified victims across the country.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: BOISE - Gloudina Robbertse, 50, of Meridian, Idaho, was sentenced to 54 months in federal prison for filing false claims for disability benefits with the California Employment Disability Department (CEDD), Special Agent in Charge Brad Bench of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Five members of the Syndicato New Mexico prison gang were sentenced to life in prison this week in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M. after juries convicted them in 2018 of committing murder in aid of racketeering.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Committee leaders say progress is being made on landmark highway legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Greensboro, N.C. - Eight indictments returned by the grand jury at the end of May are the most recent cases resulting from a coordinated effort among federal, state, and local law enforcement intended to reduce repeat violent and gun-related crime in High Point, announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A federal indictment unsealed today in Kansas charges a Massachusetts man with distributing counterfeit oxycodone pills that contained the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) is working to protect patients from surprise medical bills. Walden has drafted bipartisan legislation with Chairman Frank Pallone to shield families across the country from these harmful, unexpected medical bills and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Burke woman pleaded guilty today to bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A former financial advisor with a lengthy disciplinary history was arrested today pursuant to a federal grand jury indictment charging him with running a $14.5 million real estate fraud scheme by inducing victims to invest in his businesses and then using their money for personal expenses, including the down payment on a home in Upland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Kevin F. Thomas, 31, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley, to five years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Thomas pleaded guilty to these charges on Feb. 1, 2019. His prison term will be followed by a three-year period of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Dylan Dempsey, age 26, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable P.K. Holmes, III presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, June 19, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Protecting Title X and Safeguarding Quality Family Planning Care."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Holden James Matthews, 21, of Opelousas, Louisiana, was charged by a federal grand jury in an indictment unsealed today for setting fire to and destroying three churches in St. Landry Parish, announced U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph for the Western District of Louisiana and Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband for the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Kevin F. Thomas, 31, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley, to five years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Thomas pleaded guilty to these charges on Feb. 1, 2019. His prison term will be followed by a three-year period of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Five members of the Syndicato New Mexico prison gang were sentenced to life in prison this week in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M. after juries convicted them in 2018 of committing murder in aid of racketeering.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, June 19, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Protecting Title X and Safeguarding Quality Family Planning Care."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Mark Weissman, an attorney licensed to practice in the State of New York since 1989, pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding. Specifically, Weissman engaged in a scheme to impede the enforcement of another individual’s obligation to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of Child Pornography was sentenced on June 7, 2019, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
