News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Two men have admitted to their roles in a cocaine and heroin distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was charged in federal court in Boston with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By State Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement after the Committee unanimously approved the Saudi Arabia Human Rights and Accountability Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 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, Chair, and U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme, Vice Chair.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Five people were indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Elkins on June 18, 2019 for fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A woman who operated massage parlors in Lawrence and Topeka was sentenced today to three years on federal probation for operating a prostitution business, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. In addition, the defendant agreed to pay a $650,000 judgement, which represents the proceeds of the crime.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed, on a 224 to 196 vote, the fiscal year 2020 Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill. The legislation provides annual funding for the Department of the Treasury, the Judiciary, the Executive Office of the President, and other independent agencies, including the Small Business Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CRISPIN ABARIENTOS, M.D., 44, of Middletown, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Three marketers have pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to offering or paying illegal kickbacks to physicians in relation to the government health care insurance programs Medicare, TRICARE, and the FECA Program, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that TODD SCHLIFSTEIN, a doctor who practiced in Manhattan, pled guilty today to conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, in connection with a scheme to prescribe Subsys, a potent fentanyl-based...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On June 25, 2019, Eli Lawrence Manuel, 30, of Sells, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James A. Soto to 31 months of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release. Manuel had previously pleaded guilty on March 6, 2019, to assault with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Georgia resident pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to a charge of bank fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: It’s almost peak bloom at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens! The National Park Service invites you to celebrate the blooming of the lotus and water lilies at the 2019 Lotus and Water Lily Festival. Join us on Saturday, July 13 and Sunday, July 14, 2019 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - James Brady, age 68, of Philmont, New York, pled guilty yesterday to distributing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - One resident of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Neris Moreno-Martinez, age 22, of West New York, New Jersey, to 30 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to kidnap.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed H.R. 1225, the Restore Our Parks and Public Lands Act, legislation sponsored by Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and Representative Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) and garnering more than 290 bipartisan cosponsors. The bill passed Committee by a vote of 36-2.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A former resident of Crafton, PA, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to a charge of armed bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Committee on Oversight and Reform voted on a bipartisan basis to support Chairman Elijah E. Cummings issuing a subpoena to Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to the President, to testify before the Committee, after she refused to appear at a Committee hearing today on her multiple violations of the Hatch Act. The resolution passed by a vote of 25 to16 with Republican Committee Member Justin Amash voting with Democrats.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Hasan Chaney, 30, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to 312 months’ imprisonment (26 years), and Braheim Ballard, 39 of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to 155 months’ imprisonment (12 years, 9 months), both by U.S. District Judge Mitchell ...
