News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jennifer Annette Bush, age 44, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on June 25, 2019, by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking charges.
By State Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: Washington-The House Committee on Foreign Affairs today made public the transcribed portion of former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's May 21, 2019 interview with the Committee, with limited redactions made at the request of Mr. Tillerson and the Department of State. The transcript can be found here.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - This week, Andrew Orozco, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 97 months of imprisonment to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release. Orozco had previously pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a minor and assault of an intimate partner or dating partner by strangulation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Johnny Straining, 23, and Lamar Black, 29, both of Harrisburg, PA were charged by Indictment with attempted robbery which interferes with interstate commerce, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. Black was also charged...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: A former insurance agent of One Stop Insurance Agency was sentenced today to 101 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $20,056,054.67 in restitution for his role in defrauding two finance companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: A former Venezuelan government minister and a former officer at Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled electricity company, Corporación Eléctrica Nacional, S.A. (Corpoelec), were charged in an indictment returned today for their alleged roles in laundering the proceeds of violations of the Foreign...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after the United States Supreme Court ruled against the Administration’s justification for including a citizenship question on the 2020 Census questionnaire...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to examine options for the interim and long-term storage of nuclear waste. The committee also received testimony on S. 1234, the Nuclear Waste Administration Act (NWAA), which was introduced in late April by Murkowski, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Summer sunshine and blue skies make this time of year ideal for camping and outdoor activities. With Independence Day approaching, the Bureau of Land Management asks that everyone exercise wildfire safety while enjoying public lands. Each year, wildland fires cause significant property damage and consume millions of acres of grazing and forage.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeriel Slay, 29, of Brooklyn, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 22 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- Attorney General William P. Barr’s Advisory Subcommittee on Native American Issues (NAIS) convened this week during the U.S. Attorney’s National Conference in Washington, D.C., to discuss a wide range of justice issues affecting Indian Country, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores, Subcommittee Chair, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme, Subcommittee Vice Chair and U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams, Subcommittee Member.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: Amber Decker admits she conspired with her husband to video-record the abuse of a 2-year-old child.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: Defendant allegedly used websites to post prostitution advertisements.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has prepared a final environmental assessment (EA) regarding the biological control of Brazilian peppertree. Brazilian peppertree is an invasive weed that poses a serious threat to biodiversity in many ecosystems ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANGEL CRUZ, 44, of Waterbury, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 33 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was charged in federal court in Boston yesterday with distributing fentanyl and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: Jackson, MS - On June 21, the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested the alleged gunman involved a recent drive-by-shooting that left a 7-year-old child dead.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man pleaded guilty today to stealing over $40,000 in government money during 2018, while he was employed as a senior government official at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: UTICA, NEW YORK - Amber Decker, age 25, of Antwerp, New York, pled guilty today to all counts of a seven-count indictment charging that she, together with her husband, conspired to sexually exploit, and sexually exploited, a 2-year-old child for the purpose of producing images and videos of the abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: A federal jury found the owner of a Tampa, Florida-area medical marketing company guilty today for his role in an over $2.2 million Medicare fraud scheme involving the payment of kickbacks and bribes to medical clinics in Miami in exchange for the referral of DNA swabs that were obtained from Medicare beneficiaries.
