News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, NY - Attorney General William P. Barr and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. today announced the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history, surpassing last year’s nationwide sweep. The cases during this sweep involved more than 260 defendants from around the globe who victimized more than two million Americans, most of them elderly.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Evans City, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on one charge of bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Lake Havasu Field Office is extending the construction project to replace a failing retaining wall at Bullfrog Day-Use Recreation Area. The original completion date was set for February but has been extended through May 2, 2019. During the construction phase, the site will be temporarily inaccessible for safety reasons.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A real estate broker in Colonial Heights has agreed to settle allegations that he induced a low-income tenant to pay additional money for rent not permitted under a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rent subsidy program in which he was participating.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
Release: Congressman David Price (D-NC), Chair of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on "Stakeholder Perspectives: Affordable Housing Production".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for drug-trafficking and illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MICHAEL WRIGHT was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for his participation in a scheme to defraud investors who invested millions of dollars based on false representations that their funds...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) worked together with local law enforcement to arrest an individual suspected in conducting four armed robberies of GameStop retail stores in Orange and Los Angeles counties. The armed robberies occurred between August and October 2018.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today to request information about its policies on the retention and disposition of electronic communications, including email, text messages, chat and instant messages and social media messages.
By DOE 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: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a Fayette County man was sentenced in federal court on his conviction for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. Gary Harvey, 48, of Fayetteville, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison. Harvey was one of the defendants charged ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Benton, IL - The former bass guitar player for the rock band, The Ataris, is bound for federal prison. Michael S. Davenport, 50, of Santa Barbara, California, was sentenced on Wednesday to serve 84 months behind bars for defrauding thousands of would-be renters and home-buyers throughout the United States from 2009 to 2016. Davenport pled guilty last September to a one-count federal indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former civilian employee of the United States Navy who was a senior procurement official for Naval Base Ventura County pleaded guilty in federal court today and admitted receiving kickbacks totaling more than $1.2 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: DENVER - Jose Tapia-Rubio, age 60, of Aurora, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore to serve 96 months (8 years) in federal prison followed by five years on supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms...
By EPA 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: Attorney General Focuses on Threats Posed by Technical-Support Fraud.
By EPA 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 DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: A Toledo man was indicted for trafficking large amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Charles Gallman, also known as “T.A.," was sentenced by United States District Judge Carol Bagley Amon to three years’ imprisonment for conspiring to violate the Travel Act by bribing a witness to testify falsely in a double-homicide trial in Suffolk County Supreme Court, and for conspiring to make false statements to the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Gallman pleaded guilty to the charges on November 8, 2018.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today to request information about its policies on the retention and disposition of electronic communications, including email, text messages, chat and instant messages and social media messages.
