News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Tabatha Case, 32, Stone Lake, Wisconsin, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge William Conley to four years in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Case pleaded guilty to this charge on Jan. 3, 2019, and was sentenced on March 8.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities this morning arrested five defendants linked to a scheme that helped Chinese nationals obtain student visas by hiring individuals who used fake Chinese passports to take an English proficiency test for the foreign students.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) joined by several of their Democratic colleagues, introduced legislation today protecting every woman’s constitutionally-guaranteed...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Car Advertisement Scams.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Visitation to America’s national parks in 2018 exceeded 300 million recreation visits for the fourth consecutive year. The 318.2 million recreation visits total is the third highest since record keeping began in 1904.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Anthony Smith, age 39, of Brooklyn, New York, was convicted after a four-day jury trial of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Judge Reiss sentenced Smith to two concurrent 45-month sentences following guilty verdicts on each of the two counts of the indictment and an additional 18 months for having violated the terms of his federal supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of promoting American energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management will offer 12 parcels (totaling 4,804 acres) in Weld, Kiowa, and Lincoln counties at its June 2019 quarterly oil and gas lease sale. This notice initiates a public comment period on associated environmental documents that ends on March 26, 2019. The BLM will hold the lease sale online at www.energynet.com.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - A willingness to work hard, take risks and chart new paths rather than accept the status quo are often the characteristics of true transformational leaders, panelists agreed during the Women in Waste Management discussion at the 2019 Waste Management Symposia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: DENVER - Mr. Karen Nikolyan, age 35, and a citizen of Armenia, was arrested this weekend at the Tbilisi airport in the Republic of Georgia after flying from Istanbul, Turkey, announced United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn. Nikolyan had been a fugitive since 2008, when he fled the District of Colorado after he pleaded guilty to bank fraud in federal court. He was arrested in the Republic of Georgia by local authorities with support from United States federal law enforcement.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - The Department of Energy is committed to ensuring the continued success of the Office of Environmental Management cleanup program which is marking its 30 year anniversary this year, DOE Deputy Secretary Dan Brouillette told government and industry leaders at the 2019 Waste Management Symposia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: A man who distributed more than 17 pounds of ice methamphetamine was sentenced on March 7, 2018, to more than ten years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Woonsocket man who on at least four occasions in March and April 2017 arranged for the sale and delivery of crack cocaine, and who was found to be in possession of heroin and two loaded firearms during a search of his residence, was sentenced today to eight years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman and Woonsocket Police Chief Thomas Oates.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Leonardo Aybar, 35, formerly of Lawrence, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy and illegally reentering the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, chaired by Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, held a hearing on the Public Health Risks of Carcinogens in Consumer Products.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeking Information from Bank Robbery at IBC Bank in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provided data to the Senate Finance Committee showing that the Private Debt Collection (PDC) program, a public/private partnership that works to bolster the U.S. Treasury, strengthen the effectiveness of the IRS and ensure fairness in the federal tax system, continues to demonstrate that it can more than pay for itself with revenues returned to the Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Middletown insurance agent/owner specializing in providing equine insurance coverage who admitted to operating various schemes which defrauded customers, insurance companies, and finance companies of approximately $1.3 million dollars was sentenced yesterday to 36 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: Attempted to enter Meskwaki Casino using fraudulent identification.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: On March 14, 2019, Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Jack Lammers will receive the Midwest HIDTA program’s outstanding prosecutor award from Jeff Stamm, the program director. The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program (HIDTA), first established in 1990, is a drug enforcement program run by...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina announces today, that Senior United States District Malcolm J. Howard sentenced ANTONIO CLARENCE DAUGHTRIDGE 33, of Williamston to 120 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised released, and a $2,500 fine.
