News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Fuwad Twalib Nassir, 29, of Mombasa, Kenya, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to making a material false statement to law enforcement. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal grand jury has returned two separate indictments charging a total of three men in two armed crime sprees of Houston-area commercial businesses, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. In one instance, two juveniles working at a Subway restaurant were robbed at gunpoint. The cases are being investigated and prosecuted as part of the recently announced Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Crime Gun Strike Force.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - Create a pioneer lantern and learn about the resilience of Great Basin plants at the California Trail Interpretive Center.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, the Chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources, sent a letter to Department of the Interior (DOI) Acting Secretary David Bernhardt requesting that he make four top Department officials available for transcribed interviews.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
Release: “Secretary Perry has issued thirty-seven Part 810 authorizations to U.S. companies allowing them to export unclassified civil nuclear technology to 16 countries. This includes seven authorizations for exports to Saudi Arabia. A Part 810 authorization does not authorize the transfer of nuclear material, ...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the Senate confirmation of Nicole Nason to serve as administrator of the Federal Highway Administration at the Department of Transportation. The Senate voted 95 to 1 to confirm Nason.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Parkland, Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to commit Bank Fraud, Mail Fraud and Wire Fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Danien Brousseau, 40, of Manchester, was sentenced on Tuesday to 90 months in prison for bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO - Joseph Lavern Harris, 31, of Rigby, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to sexual exploitation of a minor child, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Harris was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pocatello on March 27, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Public Listening Sessions planned for April 12 and April 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Earlier this morning, at the federal courthouse in East St. Louis, Illinois, three Canadian citizens were sentenced to prison for their roles in defrauding elderly Americans in a prescription drug discount card telemarketing scam. Fawaz Sebai, 41, and Vassilios Klouvatos, 34, both of Montreal, Quebec...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced the formation of a Presidential Task Force on Protecting Native American Children in the Indian Health Service System (Task Force). He charged the Task Force with investigating the institutional and systemic breakdown that failed to prevent a predatory pediatrician...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Purdy, Mo., man has been convicted by a federal trial jury of possessing methamphetamine to distribute and of illegally possessing a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: On March 26, President Donald J. Trump signed the Executive Order on Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses, the first-ever comprehensive whole-of-government policy to build resilience and protect against electromagnetic pulses, or EMPs, which are temporary electromagnetic signals that can disrupt, degrade, and damage technology and critical infrastructure systems across large areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: A former lobbyist pleaded guilty today to making a false statement to U.S. Postal Inspectors in connection with an ongoing federal investigation and proceedings concerning a five-year multi-million dollar high-yield investment fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: A federal court in Miami, Florida, entered a permanent injunction today barring Vilbrun Simon, Saintanise Agenord, Simon Accounting & Tax Services LLC, and Village Tax Multi Services from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Today, the Antitrust Division was honored to dedicate the Anne K. Bingaman Auditorium and Lecture Hall in the Liberty Square Building in Washington, DC. Anne Bingaman was the first woman to lead the Antitrust Division as Assistant Attorney General. She was nominated to the role by President Clinton and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: James Alex Fields, Jr., 21, the Ohio man who drove his car into a diverse crowd of counter-protestors on Aug. 12, 2017, killing one woman and injuring dozens, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to 29 counts of violating the federal Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: A U.S. citizen and military dependent pleaded guilty today to the attempted murder of her infant child while stationed with her husband in Spain. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney John W. Huber of the District of Utah, Special ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Multiple members and associates of a white supremacist gang known as the 1488s, have been arrested and charged for their alleged roles in a racketeering enterprise involving narcotics distribution, firearms trafficking, and acts of violence including murder, assault, and kidnapping. Assistant Attorney ...
