News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today filed a Statement of Interest in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York supporting a church’s claim that the Village of Canton, New York, violated its rights under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) by barring it from locating its church in the Village’s commercial zoning district.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: BELOIT, WI - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has again cited Avid Pallet Services LLC after a follow-up inspection found employees continued to be exposed to wood dust. The company faces penalties of $188,302 for repeated, serious, and other-than-serious safety and health violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges related to a series of bank robberies that occurred in West Mifflin, McCandless, Penn Hills and Bloomfield, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Timber Lake, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on March 26, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Morris County man was sentenced Monday to eight years in federal prison for downloading child pornography from the internet, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. In addition, he was ordered to pay $29,000 in restitution to victims.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Chair of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the fiscal year 2020 budget request for the Department of the Interior.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On March 26, 2019, President Trump signed an Executive Order (E.O.) establishing the first ever comprehensive whole-of-government policy to build resilience and protect against electromagnetic pulses, or EMPs - temporary electromagnetic signals that can disrupt, degrade, and damage technology and critical infrastructure systems across large areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, during the full committee markup of H.Res. 243, a Resolution of Inquiry regarding Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and former FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe, and the obstruction of justice investigation at the Department of Justice...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney’s Office and FBI seek the assistance of the public in an on-going investigation of possible production of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Livestream links are now available for this week’s Natural Resources Committee hearings. The schedule, as previously announced, is available below.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A California man was indicted Tuesday on a federal charge of smuggling more than 50 pounds of methamphetamine into Kansas, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Janice Cooks has been sentenced for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funds intended for housing for disabled women and their children.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael Brooks Ketterman, of Hambleton, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 60 months incarceration for distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa is leading a bipartisan effort within the Finance Committee to reform the process by which the executive branch could use national security as a basis to restrict imports under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Randall Doyle McGuire, age 39, of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Possession Of Unregistered Firearm (Destructive Device-Incendiary Bomb), in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Sections 5861(d), 5841 and 5871, punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Criminal Used Gun, Drugs, Violence to Force Minors to Have Sex in Exchange for Money.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury indicted Danhong “Jean" Chen, a/k/a Maria Sofia Taylor, and her business partner Jianyun “Tony" Ye in connection with an immigration visa fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Chicago, Illinois, man convicted of possession of crack cocaine with the intent to distribute it was sentenced on March 25, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: OLIVETTE, MO-Today, March 26, 2019, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Richard Quinn presented the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse-St. Louis Area (NCADA) for its efforts to prevent opioid and heroin addiction. In particular, the St. Louis chapter came up with bold and dramatic public service announcements (PSA) that aired during four Superbowls reaching more than one million local viewers each time.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Alexandria, VA - The U.S. Marshals Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force recently conducted Operation Washout Northern Virginia (OWNV), a major operation that included executing 30 active warrants that resulted in the arrest or location of 22 individuals with alleged gang affiliations.
