News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: SIOUX CITY, IA -United States Attorney Peter E. Deegan, Jr. and the Sioux City Human Rights Commission will host a community forum focused on protecting places of worship. Leaders of the interfaith community, representatives of houses of worship, and other community stakeholders and members are encouraged...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Patrick Monahan, 52, of Old Town, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 35 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for sexual exploitation of children, and distribution and possession of child pornography. The defendant pled guilty to these charges on Sept. 10, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: On March 3, 2019, search efforts began in the Glacier Gorge area of Rocky Mountain National Park for James Pruitt, 70, of Etowah, Tennessee. After a vehicle parked at the Glacier Gorge Trailhead was determined to belong to Pruitt Sunday morning, March 3, rangers contacted Pruitt’s family in Tennessee. His family confirmed he was in the area and hadn’t been heard from since Thursday morning, Feb. 28, at approximately 10 am.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston woman was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for her role in a scheme to embezzle more than $2.7 million from Bank of America using fraudulent donations to non-profit organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Marcia Vázquez-Rijos and José Ferrer-Sosa were also sentenced to life in prison.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: BISMARCK, ND - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, State of North Dakota, and Bakken Basin Safety Consortium have signed an alliance to protect employees, and promote safety and health in the oil and gas industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg indicted 17 individuals in two separate indictments on March 13, 2019, for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today released the following statement on the Trump administration’s newly announced revision to sage grouse habitat policy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Four Law Enforcement Professionals Graduate FBI National Academy.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Furthering the Administration’s goals of restoring trust with local communities and responsibly developing America’s natural resources while easing regulatory burdens, the Bureau of Land Management today issued Records of Decision (RODs) amending land use plans for Greater Sage-Grouse habitat management on public lands, providing special protective measures for nearly 60 million acres of sagebrush steppe.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Two Springfield residents were charged in federal court in Springfield for stealing Social Security benefits.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA, Mont. - A former U.S. Air Force service member on Thursday admitted to enticing minor boys in Montana he met online into sending him sexually explicit images.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FERNANDO RODRIGUEZ, also known as “Sosa," 28, of Danbury, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A federal grand jury has returned a 50-count indictment charging seven people with defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers out of more than $50 million by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for attempting to distribute child pornography over the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - The second of two men who, at times, worked together to ship dozens of kilograms of cocaine through the U.S. Postal Service from Puerto Rico to Rhode Island was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that yesterday in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced JAQUIN JAMAL PRATT, 20, and NIKITA SHONTEL TAYLOR, 26, of Rocky Mount, North Carolina to 120 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release and 8 7 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release respectfully.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Co-Defendant also Sentenced to 108 Months in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: Admits Billing Under Names of Other Providers to Evade Review.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The United States has filed a civil complaint alleging that the City of Quincy is violating the Clean Water Act by discharging sewage and untreated wastewater into the Boston Harbor, Dorchester Bay, Quincy Bay and other waterways from the City’s sanitary sewer and storm drain systems.
