News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Emerson Gamory pleaded guilty to two counts of aiding in the preparation of false income tax returns for clients, and one count of filing a false income tax return for himself. When sentenced, Gamory faces a statutory maximum of nine years in prison, as well as forfeiture and a fine. The plea took place before United States Magistrate Judge Robert M. Levy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - June 25, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) of the House Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) today introduced legislation in the Senate and House to remove barriers to outdoor recreation and boost rural economies across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A criminal complaint was unsealed today against four individuals, including the president of the Modesto Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, charging them with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for threatening to murder a federal prosecutor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a White River, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact of a Child was sentenced on June 18, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Two executives were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Miami for their role in a conspiracy to fix prices of international freight forwarding services, the Department of Justice announced today. Roberto Dip and Jason Handal were charged with fixing prices in June 2018, and pleaded guilty in November 2018. A magistrate judge in Miami ordered Dip detained pending trial; he served over five months in jail before being released on bond.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Reservations will be required for all camping in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore effective July 11, 2019. Campers can begin making reservations on June 27 starting at 10 am (eastern) by going to www.recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Former Arkansas State Senator Jeremy Hutchinson pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kristine G. Baker to accepting multiple bribes and tax fraud in connection with a multi-district investigation spanning the Western and Eastern Districts of Arkansas and the Western District of Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Wood County man who operated a pawn shop in Mineral Wells pled guilty to a federal gun charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Alonzo Clark Nichols, 38, entered a guilty plea to possession of an unregistered machine gun. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Parkersburg Narcotics Task Force (PNTF) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a White River, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact of a Child was sentenced on June 18, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed, on a 227 to 194 vote, a package of fiscal year 2020 appropriations bills. The package consists of five bills that fund federal departments including Commerce, Justice, Agriculture, Interior, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Energy from Oct. 1, 2019 to Sept. 30, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Three people were indicted in federal court for firearms violations. Indicted are: Jaquar Keyshore Latimer, 42, of Akron; Alfred Werman, 27, of Garfield Heights, and Brittney N. McTier, 31, of Cleveland. Latimer is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession with intent to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: DENVER - Jessica Sharman, age 35, of Arapahoe County, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to Tampering with a Consumer Product, specifically stealing fentanyl meant for patients from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Parker Adventist Hospital in Douglas County...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A federal grand jury returned a Superseding Indictment charging 48 defendants, many of whom are serving federal prison sentences or were recently released from federal prison sentences, with committing drug trafficking, money laundering, and firearm crimes and with engaging in interstate travel and transmissions in aid of racketeering, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey today delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in support of, the fiscal year 2020 Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement at a Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law hearing on “Oversight of Bankruptcy Law and Legislative Proposals"...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, filed the Committee’s bipartisan report recommending that the House of Representatives hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Develon Lashonie Cunningham, 42, of Pascagoula, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to review the implementation of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) program.
