News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Johnny Wayne Harjo Jr., age 41, of Okemah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 180 months’ imprisonment and 10 years of supervised release for Sexual Abuse Of A Minor, in violation of Title 18, United...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Wilbert Green, Jr., age 30, of Columbia, South Carolina, pleaded guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney A. Dale Blankenship (619) 546-6705.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: The Committee has received and reviewed the requested reprogramming action, FY 19-01RA, submitted to the Committee on March 25, 2019, which proposes the transfer of $1 billion from fiscal year 2019 Military Personnel, Army and Army Reserve accounts to the Drug Interdiction and Counter...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New Brunswick, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to life plus 20 years in prison for his violent role in a racketeering conspiracy involving multiple brothels that employed illegal aliens throughout New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Use of False Name Enabled Spouse to Fraudulently Obtain Welfare Benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Westmoreland 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 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Relief is in sight for drivers on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. Beginning this Friday, March 29, the National Park Service (NPS) will begin a new phase of enhanced repairs to improve the road in anticipation of a larger repaving project that was previously scheduled for fall 2019, but will now begin in mid-April.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: William L. Isaac, 54, of O’Fallon, Illinois, has been sentenced to 180 months in federal prison for knowingly distributing and receiving child pornography over the internet, U.S. Attorney Steven D. Weinhoeft announced today. Chief United States District Judge Michael J. Reagan handed down the 15-year...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A federal jury convicted an Asheville man late yesterday on 35 charges of conspiracy, tax fraud related to a fraudulent tax shelter, mail and wire fraud and money laundering.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler seeking information related to the agency's recent decision ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An owner of two information technology companies was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for his role in using phony documents to fraudulently obtain H1-B visas for foreign workers and submitting false tax returns, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, State Attorney, Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, Ari C. Shapira, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF"), Miami Field Office, and Daniel J. Oates, Chief, Miami Beach Police Department (“MBPD"), made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Oscar Willard Thomas, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 30 months incarceration for methamphetamine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Chair of the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the fiscal year 2020 budget request for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure today approved eight bills, including measures to improve airport infrastructure across the country, strengthen aviation safety, help communities recover from disasters, increase disaster program transparency and oversight, and ensure FAA funding and Coast Guard pay during government shutdowns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: A Tulsa man has been convicted of obstructing commerce by robbery; carrying, using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence; and Hobbs Act conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores. Following the two day trial, the jury deliberated nearly three hours before convicting Melvin Louis Bailey, 26, of the crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man has been convicted by a federal trial jury of illegally possessing firearms in a case that began when police officers followed a trail of blood from a drive-by shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The two owners of a South Carolina-based company and a manager at one of the country’s largest private companies (“Victim Company") appeared in federal court today and pleaded guilty to conspiracy, in connection with an extensive bribery and kickback scheme involving more than $35,000,000 of fraudulent overcharges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news that Facebook is banning white nationalism content from its platform...
