News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks during a Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security hearing on the Violence Against Women Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Attorney General Focuses on Threats Posed by Technical-Support Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 50 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud New Jersey state benefit programs,, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - DEA Houston Division Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick announced the conviction of Giovanni Hernandez, a former sergeant with the Progresso Police Department, on two counts of aiding and abetting the attempt to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine. The jury deliberated for three hours before convicting Giovanni Hernandez, 45, of Weslaco, following a four-day trial.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Beginning Thursday, March 7, a temporary area closure around the Stephens Creek administrative area will go into effect.
By State Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, a bipartisan group of members of Congress reintroduced legislation that would focus American’s diplomatic, development, and security efforts on preventing the root causes of violence and instability in countries around the world. The Global Fragility Act, which passed the House last...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Patty Murray, (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, spoke on the Senate floor about a new oversight memo she released highlighting some of the negative impacts of the Trump Administrations changes to the Title X...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle, and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging 24 individuals connected to a southeastern Connecticut drug trafficking ring with narcotics and related offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- National Park Service researchers recently re-captured the female mountain lion known as P-53 and treated her for mange, a parasitic disease of the hair and skin. Mange is generally rare in wild cats, however, it has been widespread in bobcats in the Santa Monica Mountains area since an epizootic started in 2002 caused extensive mortality and a significant population decline.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JASON BROCKETT, 45, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 14 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin and crack cocaine
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Miami CPA Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Erick Rahumid Hobbs, a/k/a Eric Muhammad, age 39, of Baltimore, Maryland, on March 6, 2019 for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition. Hobbs was previously convicted of a felony and was therefore prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. (Mar.7, 2019)- Tomorrow, on Friday, March 8, 2019, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, will deliver the keynote speech and accept the “Sunshine in Government Award" at the Freedom of Information Conference for his tireless efforts to increase government transparency.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Daron Buford, of Detroit, Michigan, has admitted to his involvement in a heroin, oxycodone, and cocaine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Three men were arrested this morning on federal charges alleging they took part in a scheme that used millions of dollars wired from China to purchase seven residential homes in San Bernardino County that were converted into illegal marijuana grow houses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former investment advisor was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for deceiving his former clients concerning the management of their retirement savings as well as lying to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau routinely enters into agreements to receive administrative records from many agencies, including our pending agreement with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, to assist us in our mission to provide quality statistics to the American public.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Alabama Man Indicted for Allegedly Producing Child Pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
Release: Congressman José E. Serrano (D-NY), Chair of the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Executive Office for Immigration Review.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Jun Ying, who committed insider trading by exercising his company stock options ahead of Equifax’s public announcement of its massive data breach, pleaded guilty to a charge of securities fraud.
