News from March 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA), Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI), Ways & Means Committee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) introduced landmark legislation to strengthen Americans’ long-term financial security. The Setting Every Community up...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Springfield man was sentenced today to nearly six years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on new reports that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma directed millions of dollars in contracts to Republican communications consultants...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III today sentenced Menard Hazelwood, age 29, and Donte Smith, age 34, both of Baltimore, to 13 years in federal prison and 12 years in federal prison, respectively, each followed by three years of supervised release, for assaulting a federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Demetrius Davenport, 30, of Lewiston, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Kevin Soriana-Hernandez, a/k/a “Brocha," age 19, of Riverdale, Maryland, today to 26 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for his participation in the racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, including a murder and attempted murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Nicholas Hughes, 34, of Tallahassee, was sentenced to 240 months in prison today for enticement of a minor, production, and possession of child pornography, after being convicted on January 4 following a two-day trial. Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A long-time manager at CBS Employees Federal Credit Union is in federal custody on a criminal complaint alleging he embezzled $40 million from his employer over two decades and spent the money on gambling, expensive cars and watches, and travel by private jet.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement in response to a letter he received from Attorney General William Barr...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Cincinnati, OH - U.S. Marshal Pete Tobin is pleased to announce that during the morning hours of March 27, 2019, the U.S. Marshals Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST) arrested fugitive Daniel Fitzgerald on an outstanding warrant from the Middletown Municipal Court of Butler County, Ohio for Complicity to Aggravated Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Westmoreland and Washington Counties in southwestern Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to six years (72 months) in prison on his conviction of federal drug and firearms offenses, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced a settlement with Harrisburg Millworks LLC, the owner of The Millworks, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The agreement was reached under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA").
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Three federal indictments unsealed in San Diego this week charge 20 people, including documented gang members and associates, with trafficking in oxycodone, methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana and ultra-deadly carfentanil from homes in City Heights, College Grove and Imperial Beach.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROBERT ACOSTA and JOSE DIAZ were convicted of the Dec. 22, 1997, murders of Alex Ventura, 25, and Aneudis Almonte, 20. The convictions follow a three-week trial before U.S. District Judge Kevin P. Castel.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Demetrius Davenport, 30, of Lewiston, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wrote today to Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Acting Chairman Ann Marie Buerkle expressing their concerns about a recent report showing that...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Dear Committee Member, The Chairman has scheduled a meeting of the Committee to be held in Room 1100 Longworth House Office Building on Tuesday, April 2, at 10 AM. Markup of: • H.R. 1759, “Building on Reemployment Improvements to Deliver Good Employment for Workers (BRIDGE for Workers) Act". • H.R.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Culpepper man was sentenced today to nine years in prison for operating a Ponzi scheme that took in approximately $9 million and defrauded over 20 victims of $1.8 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: In honor of Women’s History Month in March, the United States Attorney’s Office spotlights the achievements of Judge Mary Anne (Reimann) Richey, a true woman of firsts.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2019
News Release: Kansas Man Sentenced to Nearly 18 Years in Prison for Use of Child Pornography in Southeast Asia with Intent to Import into the United States.
