News from June 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey today delivered the following remarks to the House Rules Committee in support of an appropriate rule for the House to consider H.R. 3401, House Democrats’ emergency supplemental that provides $4.5 billion to address the humanitarian crisis at the Southern border.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Parkway Discount Pharmacy in Longs, South Carolina, has agreed to pay the United States $50,000 and surrender its DEA registration to resolve allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act by failing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - An indictment was unsealed today following the arrests of Nery Martinez, 50, and Maura Martinez, 50, of Shasta Lake. The indictment charges the defendants with conspiracy, forced labor, and alien harboring for financial gain. Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Justice...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $495 million in airport infrastructure grants, the second allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: Texarkana, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Randy Caldwell, age 41, of Texarkana, Arkansas, was sentenced last week to 168 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for one count of Distribution of More Than 50 Grams of Methamphetamine. The Honorable Chief Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Texarkana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: -------------------------------. Today, the House Judiciary Committee announced an agreement with Annie Donaldson, former Chief of Staff to former White House Counsel Donald F. McGahn, to secure her testimony to Committee questions. The Committee had served Ms. Donaldson with a subpoena for her to appear ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to five years in prison for selling firearms to a resident of another state.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: Michael J. Driscoll Named Special Agent in Charge of the Criminal Division for the New York Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: Faces at Least 10 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: Had Multiple Prior Drug Trafficking Convictions and Two Domestic Abuse Convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Ronald Tilley, 59, of Hampden, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to robbing a credit union.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - James Baldinger, 51, a former private prisoner transport officer with the Prisoner Transportation Services of America LLC. (PTS), pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to one count of violating the civil rights of a female in his custody whom he sexually assaulted during a transport.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: KNOXVILLE, TN-The man suspected of robbing a Clinton bank is now wanted for questioning in four more robberies and a carjacking. The FBI is offering a reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction. The man, dubbed the “Big Box Bandit", robbed the FSNB, a bank inside the Walmart in Clinton, Tennessee, in May.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: I welcome your visit to India later this month. Your engagement in New Delhi is a key opportunity to reframe the U.S.-India strategic partnership with the new government and demonstrate the critical role that a strong and prosperous India plays in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. During...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that DOUGLAS D. CHENEVERT III, a 40-year old resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been convicted of possession of firearms and ammunition by a convicted felon. As a result of his conviction, CHENEVERT now faces a maximum sentence of ten years in federal prison, significant fines and a period of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Mary Holden Ayala, 59, of Portland, was sentenced today to 33 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for stealing over $1 million from an Oregon foster care agency, money laundering and filing false personal income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: A former Seattle resident who relocated to Laguna Niguel, California in the midst of his fraud scheme, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. TROY CLINTON VAN SICKLE, 48, admits that between 2011 and 2014, he fraudulently operated...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $495 million in airport infrastructure grants, the second allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Tuesday, June 25, 2019, the Committee on Oversight and Reform will hold a hearing to examine aviation security vulnerabilities at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that have languished for years. The Committee will also examine new information about the diversion of TSA personnel to the southern border and its impact on aviation security operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATALIE LEVINE, 35, of Scottsdale, Arizona, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to five years of probation for engaging in a kickback scheme related to fentanyl spray prescriptions. Judge Arterton also ordered Levine to spend the first six months of probation in home confinement, and to perform 150 hours of community service.
