News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Anthony Love was arrested today after allegedly shooting his girlfriend in the back of her head.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Shelby Jude Darby, 27, of Lafayette, pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to possessing a 9 mm pistol and an AK-47 style rifle.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today called on Senate Republicans to pass a budget that guarantees protections for pre-existing conditions and blocks additional tax cuts for corporations and billionaires. In a Senate Budget Committee markup, Wyden offered two amendments to adopt these commonsense policies, but Republicans voted them down on a party line.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, the Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, announced that RICHARD DIVER was arrested on fraud charges in connection with his embezzlement from the asset...
By State Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - In the wake of this month’s terrorist attack in New Zealand, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (D-Idaho), the Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were joined by Senators Gary Peters (D-Mi.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - William Koch, of Anmore, West Virginia, has admitted to methamphetamine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated two Nevada counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Elko and White Pine counties who suffered losses caused by recent drought, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: (March 28, 2019) - - In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue Thursday, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota, Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Ranking Member Glenn “G.T." Thompson of Pennsylvania, and more than 70 Democratic and Republican House colleagues urged the Department to prioritize the implementation of dairy provisions included in the 2018 Farm Bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Selma Morales, 55, of Lubbock, Tex., was sentenced today in federal court in Santa Fe, NM, to 24 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release for her conviction on a wire fraud charge arising from a scheme to defraud her employer. Morales also was ordered to pay $924,311 in restitution to her former employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Sedonnia Axl Lee Bass, 28, of Oak Grove, Louisiana, pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter for distributing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: A long-time investment advisor in Redmond, Washington pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to defrauding some 15 investors of more than $3 million, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. DENNIS GIBB, 72, the President and owner of Sweetwater Investments Inc., pleaded guilty to wire...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Defendant allegedly surreptitiously recorded high school students while they used urinals and bathroom stalls.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Burlington, VT - The U.S. Marshals Service, Vermont Violent Offender Task Force (VVOTF), in conjunction with their office in Easton Pennsylvania, arrested a fugitive wanted by the Vermont Department of Corrections for Escape from Furlough.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Fayette County, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of tax evasion, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - The National Park Service (NPS) has approved a plan of operations that includes diversion and use of up to 470 gallons of water per day from Sourdough Spring, within Death Valley National Park, for use at a mine outside the park.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “Examining the federal response to the risks associated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)" Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A long-time international fugitive who is charged with nine felonies for allegedly participating in a $9 million bank fraud scheme against Wells Fargo has been taken into federal custody in Los Angeles.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Robert L. Minette, 32, Shakopee, Minnesota, was sentenced to nine years in federal prison today by U.S. District Court Judge William Conley on two counts of aiding and abetting bank robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm. Minette entered a guilty plea to these charges on Jan. 15, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Eleven-Count Indictment Alleges Defendants’ Staffing Company Submitted Fraudulent Applications for High-Tech Worker Visas.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management Colorado today sold five (5) parcels totaling 1,055.15 acres for $16,281 including rentals and fees at its quarterly oil and gas lease sale.
