News published on Federal Newswire in June 2019

News from June 2019


Wyden, Menendez, Whitehouse Urge NRA to Allow Longtime Advertising Agency to Cooperate with Investigation

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and committee members Senator Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., today released the following statement after the NRA failed to provide responsive documents to committee Democrats’ latest requests...


News Release: East L.A. Gang Member Who Firebombed African-American Residences Sentenced to 13 Years in Federal Prison.


News Release: GETTYSBURG, PA: This summer, on June 15, July 20, and Aug. 17, youth (ages 6 to 12) can ride the shuttle bus to Eisenhower National Historic Site for free. Special family activities will be offered each day in addition to the park’s regularly scheduled programming. The park’s new junior ranger activity guide will be available for families to work on and earn their junior ranger badges as well.


News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge has sentenced a north suburban man to 27 and a half years in prison for attempting to transport a minor to Wisconsin to engage in prostitution.


News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Hermitage, Pennsylvania, and a corporation, also from Hermitage, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.


News Release: Today, the House Judiciary Committee announced a bipartisan investigation into competition in digital markets. The investigation will include a series of hearings held by the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on the rise of market power online, as well as requests for information that are relevant to the investigation.


Cleveland one of 10 sites selected for National Public Safety Partnership initiative to combat violent crime

News Release: As the Department of Justice continues its efforts to fulfill President Donald J. Trump’s commitment to reducing violent crime in America, Attorney General William P. Barr today announced that Cleveland was selected to join the National Public Safety Partnership (PSP) initiative. PSP provides a framework...


News Release: St. Louis, MO - Asean Mitchell, 20, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 150 months in prison on three counts of carjacking and one count of brandishing a firearm during a federal crime of violence. He appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig.


News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Friday, June 7, 2019, Rep. Harley Rouda, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment, will hold a field hearing in Laguna Niguel, California on “Examining America’s Nuclear Waste Management, Storage, and the Need for Solutions."


Three Armed Bank Robbers Sentenced to Combined 88 Years in Federal Prison

News Release: Florence, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Lance Hardiman, Justin Pressley, and Rodrick Berklery, all 28 years old, were sentenced to federal prison for their roles in the armed bank robbery of South State Bank in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on May, 4, 2016, and a follow-on high-speed chase where the defendants shot at several police officers.


News Release: Had girlfriend transport meth on bus from California to distribute in Iowa.


News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - John Barrett Fairchild, of East Islip, New York, was sentenced today to three years probation for trafficking cigarettes to avoid paying the cigarette tax, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.


News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released its reports accompanying the fiscal year 2020 Transportation-Housing and Urban Development and Agriculture-Rural Development-FDA appropriations bills.


Metro-PCS Robber Sentenced to 151 Months in Prison for 11 San Diego Robberies

News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Stephen Wong (619) 546-9464.


Metro-PCS Robber Sentenced to 151 Months in Prison for 11 San Diego Robberies

News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Stephen Wong (619) 546-9464.


News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Maryville, Tennessee, man convicted of Possession of an Unregistered Firearm was sentenced by Karen E. Schreier, U.S. District Court Judge.


News Release: DAYTON - A man helping orchestrate a methamphetamine, fentanyl and heroin trafficking conspiracy was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 180 months in prison.


Chairwoman Lowey Statement at Subcommittee Markup of FY 2020 Financial Services and General Government Funding Bill

Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2020 bill.


News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jace Bradley, age 58, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, entered a guilty plea on May 30, 2019, and was immediately sentenced by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo to 18 months’ imprisonment and four years supervised release for his role in a Monroe County-based cocaine trafficking conspiracy.


Federal Indictment Charges Individuals With Long-Running Scheme To Help Applicants Fraudulently Obtain Massage Therapist Licenses

News Release: The defendants helped Chinese nationals in the United States unlawfully obtain work at massage parlors.