News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - Two brothers from Bluefield were sentenced today to federal prison for their roles in federal drug and gun charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Tyquon Freeman, 21, of Bluefield, West Virginia, was sentenced to 81 months in federal prison. Tykeem Freeman, 25, also...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: A former Toledo police officer was charged in federal court with possession of a stolen firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Every day across America, parents, grandparents, and people of all colors and backgrounds - rural, urban, and suburban - get up in the morning and work hard to make better lives for their families. Despite their differences, these individuals encounter many of the same obstacles.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: A bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce leaders sent a letter to Indian Health Service (IHS) Acting Director Rear Admiral Michael D. Weahkee today requesting a briefing on reported medical errors and systemic failures at IHS hospitals, the corrective actions taken to date, and an update on the agency’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: A jury convicted a Willard man of child pornography crimes.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce leaders sent a letter to Indian Health Service (IHS) Acting Director Rear Admiral Michael D. Weahkee today requesting a briefing on reported medical errors and systemic failures at IHS hospitals, the corrective actions taken to date, and an...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - After a year of competitive forecasting, the Bureau of Reclamation has selected three winning teams to share $525,000 in the Sub-Seasonal Climate Forecast Rodeo, which sought to crowdsource advancements in the three-to-six-week sub-seasonal forecast timeframe. Each of the three teams demonstrated novel approaches and outperformed the baseline forecasts.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Defendant Trafficked Juvenile and Adults, Controlling Them with Violence, Threats and Narcotics.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- In response to reports that the Trump White House intends to create a working group to challenge the scientific consensus on climate change, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - An indictment was unsealed on March 4, 2019, charging Najib Allam, an executive of the Privinvest family of maritime services companies, and Teofilo Nhangumele and Antonio do Rosario, former Mozambican government officials, for their roles in a $2 billion fraud and money laundering scheme...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on improving safe vehicle technology on Thursday, March 14, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing will be entitled, “Enhancing Vehicle Technology to Prevent Drunk Driving."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Raymond Donovan announced that Christopher Howard, aka “Juju," a member of a violent, Bronx-based street gang known as “Money, Bitches, Guns" (“MBG"), was convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today 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 DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas -The former mayor of Richardson, Texas and a land developer who she eventually married, have been convicted of federal conspiracy violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Suntez Pasley, 46, of Madison, Illinois, has been sentenced to 210 months in prison for robbing the Regions Bank on West Main Street in Belleville, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced today. Pasley pleaded guilty to the robbery back in November 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Donald Hickman, Jr., of Reynoldsville, West Virginia, has admitted to his role in a methamphetamine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, March 7, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $1.7 million to Idaho as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production system. Overall, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: A former Toledo police officer was charged in federal court with possession of a stolen firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Alma Ramirez (age 40) was sentenced today in federal court in Green Bay to four years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $301,370 in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: A bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce leaders sent a letter to Indian Health Service (IHS) Acting Director Rear Admiral Michael D. Weahkee today requesting a briefing on reported medical errors and systemic failures at IHS hospitals, the corrective actions taken to date, and an update on the agency’s...
