News from May 2019
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: I come to the floor today to shed light on yet another dark cloud that’s hanging over the Department of Defense. In fact, for decades, a dark cloud of fiscal mismanagement has loomed large over the Pentagon. During my very first term here in the United States Senate, I began my quest to bring fiscal accountability to the Pentagon. Four decades later, I’m still keeping tabs on the money trail.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Marquis D. Reasonover, of St. Louis City, 42, and Hairl Johnson, 48, of Ferguson, each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin and one count of using a firearm to commit murder in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Johnson pleaded guilty on May 14, 2019. Reasonover appeared today before United States District Judge E. Richard Webber.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that District Judge Lance Africk sentenced TIMMY SCOTT a/k/a “TIMOTHY SCOTT," a 24-year-old resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and KADEEM BURDEN, a 23-year-old resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 120 months each in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ALOYSIUS KORIEOCHA, a/k/a “Madi," a/k/a “Ball," age 37, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after pleading guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and a quantity of fentanyl.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Tax dollars should fund defense, not lavish lifestyles of contractors.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) announced today that the Subcommittee is holding a hearing titled “Enforcement in the New NAFTA." The hearing will take place on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 10:00 AM in room 1100 Longworth House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on May 15, 2019, Sabas Rodriguez-Cisneros, 47, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. The trial began in federal court in Lincoln on Monday, May 13, 2019, before Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management, Joe Balash, today renewed two Twin Metals Minnesota LLC-held hardrock mineral leases located on the Superior National Forest in Northeastern Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: DENVER - A federal jury sitting in Denver found Troy Andrew Lujan, age 36, of Lakewood, Colorado, guilty of two counts related to the distribution of methamphetamine and heroin, announced United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn and Denver FBI Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips.
By DOL Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: HUDSON, WI - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Market & Johnson have signed a strategic partnership to promote worker safety and health during the demolition, remodeling, and construction of Phillips-Medisize’s 210,000 square-foot commercial building project in Hudson, Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: A man who led law enforcement on a high speed chase after robbing a bank was sentenced May 14, 2019 to more than eight years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: On May 15, 2019, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont (USAO) honored a number of individuals from a variety of law enforcement agencies at the USAO’s second annual Law Enforcement Awards Ceremony. This ceremony was held at the federal building in Burlington, Vermont. Individual investigators...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: The federal grand jury alleges Inman attempted to sell his vote on the repeal of the state’s prevailing wage law last June and later lied to the FBI.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced six nominees and 13 bills during a committee business meeting Wednesday. The bills, amendments, nominees, and 5 postal-naming bills were passed by voice vote unless otherwise noted.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -On May 14, a jury convicted Richardo Urbina, of Muskegon, after six days of trial on three counts of sex trafficking minors; three counts of attempting to sex traffic minors; conspiring to sex traffic minors; sex trafficking an adult by force, fraud, or coercion; distributing cocaine; distributing cocaine base; and conspiring to distribute cocaine. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in federal prison and a maximum sentence of life.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Eugene Ripp, 66, Arlington, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to one year and one day in federal prison for dealing in firearms without a license. This term of imprisonment will be followed by two years of supervised release. Ripp pleaded guilty to this charge on Feb. 20, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Robert Berger, 35, and Nathaniel Morris, 47, both of Philadelphia, PA, were charged by Indictment with depriving an inmate at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility of his constitutional right to be free from unreasonable force. Berger and Morris, both arrested earlier today, were also charged with making false statements relating to the incident.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dakota Casey, 27, of Indiana, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to transportation of child pornography. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Eugene Ripp, 66, Arlington, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to one year and one day in federal prison for dealing in firearms without a license. This term of imprisonment will be followed by two years of supervised release. Ripp pleaded guilty to this charge on Feb. 20, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: VALDOSTA - A Valdosta doctor was found guilty of health care fraud following a seven-day trial in federal court, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. The verdict was announced late in the day yesterday, May 14, 2019, after the jury deliberated...
