News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on June 5, 2019, United States District Court Judge James M. Munley sentenced Patrick Owusu, age 42, a citizen of Ghana, to a time served sentence of approximately 40 months, for hindering his removal from the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Kovachevich today sentenced Martin Steele (46, St. Petersburg) to seven years and five months in prison for his role in a telemarketing fraud scam. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $75,000, the proceeds of the wire fraud conspiracy. The court also directed that Steele pay a total of $1,162,142.68 to the scheme’s victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada and the FBI Las Vegas Division are promoting the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Elder Justice Initiative with an interactive telephone town hall on June 10, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI Las Vegas Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of PHILLIP MARK REINHART, 38, to 40 years in prison for production and attempted production of child pornography. REINHART, who pleaded guilty on Jan. 17, 2019, was sentenced before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of KRISTOPHER SULLIVAN, a/k/a “Blood Money," 24, for his role in a heroin distribution conspiracy that resulted in the shooting deaths of two individuals. SULLIVAN entered his guilty plea before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators have demonstrated a compact frequency-comb apparatus that rapidly measures the entire infrared band of light to detect biological, chemical and physical properties of matter. Infrared light travels in waves longer than visible light and is most familiar as the radiation associated with heat.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
Release: CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Transportation Security Administration discovered a loaded firearm at a Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) checkpoint this morning.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is urging employers, workers, and the public to be aware of the hazards that may exist while conducting cleanup work following the recent tornados in Kansas and Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Two Washington, D.C. area men pleaded guilty this week to their roles in a conspiracy to transport with the intent to engage in unlawful interstate dealing in firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached a settlement agreement with Danbury Sports Dome in Danbury to resolve allegations that the sports facility was not operating in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA").
By USDA Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on Spiech Farms LLC (Spiech Farms), Paw Paw, Mich., for failing to meet its...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), released the following statement today on the letter sent by more than a dozen automakers to President Trump, in which they wrote, “We strongly believe the best path to preserve good auto jobs and keep new vehicles affordable for more Americans is a final [fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions] rule supported by all parties-including California."
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Coming soon to Harry S Truman National Historic Site. a monthly evening film and discussion series.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “Under Pressure: The State of Trucking in America." ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MUFTAU ADAMU, a/k/a “Muftau Adams," a/k/a “Muftau Iddrissu," was sentenced today to 51 months in prison in connection with a fraud scheme based in the Republic of Ghana (“Ghana") involving the theft of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that LAMONT EVANS, a former assistant men’s basketball coach at the University of South Carolina (“South Carolina") and Oklahoma State University (“OSU"), and EMANUEL RICHARDSON, a/k/a “Book," a former...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 23-year-old Mexican National has been charged with unlawful transportation of aliens resulting in death following the fatal alien smuggling attempt in which six people were left for dead, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after the Department of Justice and the Department of Commerce sent letters late last night refusing to meet the Committee’s deadline to produce documents in response to bipartisan subpoenas issued more than two months ago for documents relating to the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Labor Department’s May 2019 jobs report...
