News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: Admits Taking Gifts in Return for Preferential Treatment on Contracts.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: On April 13, from 8:00 am until 12:00 pm, Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) and the North Carolina Beach Buggy Association (NCBBA) will host drop-in volunteer beach cleanup efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Richard Gathercole, of Montana, entered pleas of guilty in federal court in Lincoln on March 11, 2019, to the charges of bank robbery, brandishing a firearm during a bank robbery, and carjacking. Magistrate Judge Cheryl Zwart set sentencing before Chief Judge John M. Gerrard on June 5, 2019, in Lincoln.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach woman was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for her role in a heroin and fentanyl distribution conspiracy that resulted in an overdose death.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, in federal court in Boston for escaping from a residential re-entry center where he was finishing the remainder of a 100 month sentence.
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 DOE Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Hearing on “Enhancing Vehicle Technology to Prevent Drunk Driving:"
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-On Wednesday, March 13, 2019, a federal jury found Theodore Martin Kirk, 64, of Klamath County, Oregon, guilty of stealing more than $30,000 in Social Security benefits dispersed in the name of his elderly mother, Nadine Kirk. Ms. Kirk has been missing since March 2010 and is presumed to be deceased.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS - A Crow Agency woman admitted today to attacking and seriously injuring an elderly man while she was under the influence of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Devontee Cole, 41, of Jackson, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 211 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Hearing on “Enhancing Vehicle Technology to Prevent Drunk Driving:"
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that yesterday TROYNELL COOKS, age 39, of New Orleans, pled guilty to bank robbery, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a).
By EPA Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Republican Committee Leaders today sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) 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: Career criminal committed latest felony while on supervised release for previous fraud conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: (MILES CITY, Mont.) - The BLM would like to encourage surface owners to properly verify their ownership of mineral rights before excavating sand, gravel, stone or scoria on their property. Surprisingly, these materials may or may not belong to the surface owner.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 23-year-old illegal alien from China - who threatened to shoot school children while he was in an internet chat session in July 2018 - was sentenced Thursday to more than five years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as an illegal alien, and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Albuquerque, New Mexico returned a superseding indictment on March 13 charging Jany Leveille, 36, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 40, Hujrah Wahhaj, 38, Subhanah Wahhaj, 36, and Lucas Morton, 41, with federal offenses related to terrorism, kidnapping and firearms violations. The announcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Rockland woman was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for stealing Social Security benefits.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $30 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) for front-end engineering design (FEED) studies for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture systems. The projects, funded by the Office of Fossil Energy’s Carbon Capture program will support FEED studies for CO2 systems on both coal and natural gas power plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2019
News Release: Defendants Trafficked Oxycodone into Virginia from Georgia.
