News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Benjamin Gagnon, 35, of Keene, New Hampshire, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Concord, New Hampshire by Judge Joseph A. DiClerico, Jr. to 20 years in prison and eight years of supervised release for sexual exploitation of a minor. Gagnon pleaded guilty to the charge on Sept. 13, 2018.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Martin County, Minnesota, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to excessive rain and flooding that occurred April 15 through Aug. 17, 2018, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: President Donald J. Trump today appointed Trent Shores, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, as a co-chair of a Presidential Task Force formed to address the institutional and systemic breakdown that failed to prevent a predatory pediatrician from sexually assaulting Native American...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $70 million for a Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute to develop technologies that will advance U.S. manufacturing competitiveness, energy efficiency, and innovation. This Institute will focus on early-stage research for advancing cybersecurity in energy efficient manufacturing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal jury has convicted Martha Aguirre, 47, of Orange, California, and Juan Alfaro, 54, of Hacienda, California, of narcotics conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Defendant’s Victims Included Toddlers. Earlier today, John Wolf, a former Manhattan dentist, was sentenced in federal court in Brooklyn to 121 months’ imprisonment by United States District Judge William F. Kuntz II for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and possessing child pornography. As part...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Nicole Renee Kemp, 42, of Lincoln, was sentenced today to five years and three months, (63 months) in federal prison by Senior United States District Richard G. Kopf for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture and 50 grams or more of actual (pure) methamphetamine. Following the prison term, Kemp will serve three years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a South Sioux City, Nebraska, man convicted of conspiring to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine was sentenced on March 19, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: EL CENTRO, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management and California Department of Conservation, Division of Mine Reclamation, are working together to close 65 potentially hazardous abandoned mine openings to protect desert visitors who are riding off-road vehicles, mountain biking or hiking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - Ten individuals are facing criminal charges as part of a federal drug and gun investigation in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Hawarden, Iowa, man convicted for being a felon in possession of a firearm was sentenced on March 25, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s announcement that it now fully supports a Texas federal court ruling striking down the entirety of the Affordable Care Act.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - The EM Los Alamos Field Office and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos have finished cleaning up soil contaminated with chemicals near the at DOE’s Los Alamos National Laboratory.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On March 25, 2019, Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced James Hair, a/k/a “Mook," age 28, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 117 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute at least two kilograms of cocaine.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - A recently deployed underwater imaging camera is helping EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC) remotely characterize radioactive debris in a former spent fuel storage basin. Learn about this innovative tool in this video.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated nine California counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura 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 DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A City of Paterson police officer was arrested today and charged with conspiring to violate the civil rights of motor vehicle occupants and others in Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Preston Jeffrey Smith, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to his involvement in a heroin, oxycodone, and cocaine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Trent Shores announced today that due to recent amendments made to the City of Pryor Creek’s zoning code, the Justice Department will close its investigation into whether the city violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Person’s Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) when it rejected Cornerstone Truth of God’s efforts to obtain a special use permit to operate a church there. RLUIPA is a civil rights law that protects against religious discrimination.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Brianna Blackman, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 14 months incarceration for having a drug-involved premises, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
