News from March 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is pressing the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for answers over the lax oversight of federal spending by Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) and delays to reforms it promised three years ago.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing to consider President Trump’s nominee to be Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI), David Bernhardt. The Senate previously confirmed Mr. Bernhardt as Deputy Secretary with bipartisan support in May 2017 and he has served as Acting Secretary since January 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Faith Martin, of Shinnston, West Virginia, has admitted to her involvement in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: I write regarding the clear and growing transnational threat posed by white nationalist terrorism, as exemplified most recently by the horrific terrorist attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand and last fall by the shocking and ghastly attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh. The perpetrator...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 13 Texas counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Anderson, Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Haskell, Houston, Leon, Madison, Sutton, Walker, Washington and Young who suffered losses caused by excessive moisture and flooding that occurred from Sept. 3, 2018 through Jan. 28, 2019, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Projects will support rural electric utilities and communities through two subtopics: 1) development of distributed wind integrated with other distributed energy resource solutions, and 2) simplification of distributed energy project development through standardized solutions and technical assistance.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: A jury found a Toledo pastor guilty of sex trafficking of a minor and other crimes, U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Eric B. Smith said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning a federal judge in Albuquerque, NM, sentenced Thomas M. Navaho, 26, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, NM, to 51 months of imprisonment based on his previously entered guilty plea to an assault charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Boston for surreptitiously filming boys in the restrooms at Boston Latin School (BLS).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today returned a 19-count felony indictment charging two men with participating in a scheme where nine residential homes in San Bernardino County were purchased, mostly with money wired from China, and then the homes were converted into illegal marijuana grow houses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Abraham Stewart, 43 years old, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Theresa L. Springmann after pleading guilty being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Dallas Man Pleads Guilty to Kidnapping and Conspiracy Charges After Targeting Gay Men for Violent Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Daniel Francesco Vidal (29, Jacksonville) to 10 years in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The court also ordered Vidal to forfeit the Walther PPK pistol that he had possessed.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Wakulla County, Florida, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to Hurricane Michael that occurred on Oct. 10, 2018, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Two Kansas men were charged today with a pair of bank robberies in which shots were fired and robbers wore Black Panther and Venom masks, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Shooting Took Place at Couple's Apartment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va.-United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a Michigan man pled guilty to a federal drug charge. D’Andre Lee Mathis, 27, of Mount Clemens, Michigan, pled guilty to aiding and abetting the distribution of oxymorphone. The case was investigated by the Greenbrier Valley Drug and Violent Crime Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - James Lockhart (31, Bradenton) today pleaded guilty to an information charging him with producing, distributing, and possessing child pornography. Lockhart, formerly a paramedic for a private ambulance company, faces up to 70 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Christian Matthew Storey, 27, of Byram, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Tom S. Lee to attempting to acquire a firearm by making fraudulent statements on a federal background check form, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JORGE AGUILAR-PEREZ, age 25, a citizen of Guatemala, pleaded guilty Tuesday, March 26, 2019 to a one-count bill of information charging him with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. ' 1326(a).
