News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ A former account representative for a toxicology testing company has been ordered to prison in connection with a scheme to defraud Medicare, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Dr. James Stein-Sheridan Shelby, age 50, of Spokane, Washington, pled guilty to conspiring with Timothy James Felch, age 36, of Spokane, Washington, to distribute opioid pain medications...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, Ga. - Sixteen of the defendants indicted on drug trafficking and firearms charges as part of Operation Vanilla Gorilla have pled guilty in federal court, including the lead defendant in the gang.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) sent a letter to the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Calvin L. Scovel III, requesting an investigation into the Federal Aviation Administration’s approach to certifying the Boeing 737 MAX.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: Park staff and a team from the University of Vermont will be conducting a historic preservation project on the Lost Horse Mill structure that requires temporary road and trail closure for public safety. Lost Horse Mine Trail will be closed Wednesday, March 27, from 6 am to 4 pm. Lost Horse Mine Road, off Keys View Road, will be closed from noon on Tuesday, March 26 to 4 pm on Wednesday, March 27.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A Charlotte, North Carolina man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to access a protected computer, for his role in an international “Tech Support Scam" that defrauded hundreds of victims, including seniors, of more than $3 million.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a list of 40 chemicals that it will consider for risk evaluations, a requirement under the 2016 Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle sentenced JEROME KIEFFER, age 25, and his father, ARMSTEAD KIEFFER, age 54, both of New Orleans, to spend the rest of their lives in federal prison for their roles in a 2015 armored car robbery and a 2017 attempted armored car robbery in which Loomis guard James McBride was killed, announced U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: Distributed more than 2 kilos of meth within protected location.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-DE) are raising new questions about whether Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials William Wehrum and David Harlow helped to...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for First Degree Burglary and Aggravated Sexual Abuse.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a list of 40 chemicals that it will consider for risk evaluations, a requirement under the 2016 Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ A former account representative for a toxicology testing company has been ordered to prison in connection with a scheme to defraud Medicare, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Chad Eckrote, age 26, of Plymouth, Pennsylvania, received a probationary sentence of three years on March 19, 2019, by United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for conspiring to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, and fentanyl.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Government Operations Subcommittee, sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr requesting an update on the Justice Department’s investigation and prosecution of former Federal Bureau of Investigation Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Newton man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to a federal firearms charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jesus Rivera, 26, of Elmira, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 10 grams or more of a fentanyl analogue, was sentenced to serve 108 months in federal prison by Chief U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Bryan Matthew Cooney (30, Casselberry) has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. Cooney faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Niegel Broadus, age 23, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary, Allenwood, was indicted on March 14, 2019, by a federal grand jury for possession of a weapon.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-DE) are raising new questions about whether Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials William Wehrum and David Harlow helped to...
