News from March 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement commending the passage of H.R. 1, The “For the People" Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A previously convicted felon was arrested last night on charges related to defrauding investors of a local newspaper, unlawful possession of firearms by a previously convicted felon, and making false statements to the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Salem County, New Jersey, man with a previous felony record was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for illegally possessing guns and selling guns without a license, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: An Alcorn County man who attempted to sell millions in counterfeit goods was sentenced Thursday in state court for charges following a major state and federal joint investigation, announced Attorney General Jim Hood.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Cordell James, 28, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal mail before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marian W. Payson. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: Man Suspected in Recent Credit Union Robberies Arrested and Charged Following Joint FBI/San Diego PD Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Willie Quinones, 28, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to federal robbery and firearms charges stemming from a hold-up that took place in October 2016 at a diner in Northwest Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Nancy McNamara, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Four Romanian nationals from Glendale, Arizona, were indicted for conspiring to commit bank fraud by using counterfeit credit and debit cards to make automated teller machine withdrawals, and to obtain the shipment of device-making equipment through U.S. Postal Service through the use of the identity of others.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Howard Lee Walker, 30, of Pearl, Mississippi, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 60 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised releas,e for conspiring with others to possess with intent to distribute heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Derryle Smith. Walker was also ordered to pay a $3,000 fine.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: During a meeting between the co-chairs of the Bilateral Oversight Board (BOB) at the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Headquarters in Washington, D.C., the officials with FAA and the European Union (EU) signed two decisions associated with the Airworthiness Annex of the U.S./EU Safety Agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeks Identity of Unknown Bank Robber in Memphis, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS - A citizen jury has returned a guilty verdict against a North Carolina elementary school custodian charged with enticing a child for sex, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. William Pruitt, 49, of Franklin, North Carolina, was found...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: The Quincy Mine Hoist Association, Keweenaw National Historical Park, and Keweenaw National Historical Park Advisory Commission are jointly hosting a National Endowment for the Humanities traveling exhibit. The exhibit, Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives, will be on display at the Calumet Visitor Center from September 3 - October 20.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) estimates that during Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, over $671 million in needed repair work was completed at national parks across the country, one of the largest amounts of deferred maintenance needs retired in a single year. This leaves, at the end of FY18, more...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Georgia man was sentenced yesterday in federal district court in Boston for his role in a bogus advance fee Jamaican lottery scheme in which victims were defrauded of more than $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Wichita physician Steven R. Henson was sentenced today to life in federal prison for unlawfully distributing prescription drugs, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: FBI Statement on 12th Anniversary of the Abduction of Robert A. Levinson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- A federal grand jury has indicted Haichao Huang, charging him with health care fraud and making false statements relating to health care matters, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Office of Personnel Management Office of the Inspector General Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Investigations Thomas W. South, and U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Abel Salinas.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Patty Murray, (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s decision to give employers across the country the green light to offload pension liabilities...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: James D. Pieron Jr., a former resident of Mount Pleasant, Michigan, was found guilty on March 7, 2019 of one count of evasion of payment of his federal income taxes for 2008 and 2009, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
