News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Venezuelan national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to one count of passport fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler urging the agency to resist alleged calls by the Department of Defense (DOD), National Aeronautic and Space ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: Federal Grand Jury Returns Superseding Indictment against Five Amalia, New Mexico Compound Defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: The Medical Director of a substance abuse treatment center in Wellington, Florida, was sentenced to prison today after having previously pled guilty today to unlawfully distributing controlled substances (opioids, barbiturates, and benzodiazepines).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that Chad Lightfoot, 47, of Chalmette, Louisiana, was convicted by a federal jury for using an address at a Monroe house that he did not live in to receive disaster payments. The jury returned the guilty verdict after deliberating for approximately one hour. United States District Judge Terry A. Doughty presided over the trial that began Monday, March 11, 2019 and ended today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A Crow Agency man convicted of beating his partner on the Crow Reservation and of trying to get her to not testify about the assaults was sentenced on March 13 to a total of 78 months in prison, with credit for 106 days for time spent in tribal custody, and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - The auditorium in Kīlauea Visitor Center will close temporarily from April 8 through April 15 for system upgrades. The visitor center will remain open, but park films normally shown in the auditorium will not be shown during this time.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following remarks at a press conference where House Republican Committee Leaders called for hearings on the Green New Deal. The leaders also sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) this morning urging her to direct the Democratic Chairmen of the committees of jurisdiction to schedule hearings on the Green New Deal.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Three men have been sentenced in federal court this week for their roles in a drug-trafficking conspiracy that led to the kidnapping and torture of an Independence, Mo., man.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a nine-count indictment charging Haki Toplica, 24, Luisa Rivera Goris, 22, Kathryn Lissette De La Torre, 24, Haider Islam, 21, and Robert Rosso, 27, all of New York, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and interstate transportation of stolen property.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jorge Alvarez, 24, of Los Angeles, CA, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with production of child pornography. The charge carries a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum penalty of 30 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following remarks at a press conference where House Republican Committee Leaders called for hearings on the Green New Deal. The leaders also sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) this morning urging her to direct the Democratic Chairmen of the committees of jurisdiction to schedule hearings on the Green New Deal.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following remarks at a press conference where House Republican Committee Leaders called for hearings on the Green New Deal. The leaders also sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) this morning urging her to direct the Democratic Chairmen of the committees of jurisdiction to schedule hearings on the Green New Deal.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today led a bipartisan group of Senators in sending a letter to President Donald Trump supporting “the continued prioritization of a timely, transparent, and science-based system for the approvals of agricultural biotechnology products."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Tara Rae Ellington, 44, of Lincoln, was sentenced today to 21 years and 10 months (262 months) in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of actual (pure) methamphetamine. Ellington admitted, as part of her plea agreement, to having previously been convicted of a felony drug-trafficking offense. Following the prison term, Ellington will serve 10 years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Diego Fernando Cardona Lozano (43, Cali, Colombia), a/k/a “El Doctor" and “Pomada," with conspiracy to commit international money laundering and conspiracy to import at least five kilograms of cocaine...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - An Oklahoma man was sentenced today to 108 months in federal prison for trafficking more than 20 pounds of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former United States Postal Service mail carrier pleaded guilty on March 12, 2019, in federal court in Worcester to stealing mail that she was responsible for delivering.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ-On Tuesday, March 12, 2019, Elizabeth Ainslie, 56, believed to be the “Biddy Bandit", was taken into custody without incident in Phoenix.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Karen Mouritsen, Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States (BLM-ES) Director, signed on March 7, 2019, a coal lease awarded to the Best Coal, Inc. The federal tract was offered for sale in response to a Lease-by-Application submitted by Best Coal, Inc., Jasper, Alabama, and was held November...
