News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael Greenholtz, age 24, of Cairo, New York, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for illegally possessing a.22 caliber revolver as a prohibited person.
By US DOT Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) during today’s hearing titled: “Status of the Boeing 737 MAX."
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Christopher Campbell, 30, of Jackson, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves to 18 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana K. Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina - United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon recognized today the service and sacrifice of federal, state, and local police officers on the occasion of National Police Week, which is being observed Sunday, May 12, to Saturday, May 18, 2019. In October 1962, Congress declared May 15th as National Peace Officers Memorial Day and created National Police Week as an annual tribute to law enforcement service and sacrifice.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS- U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme today recognized the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and tribal police officers on the occasion of National Police Week, which is being observed Sunday, May 12 to Saturday, May 18, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Jeffrey Dale Clark Jr., 36, of Boyce, Louisiana, pleaded guilty Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell for possessing a revolver.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION - A federal jury sitting in Grand Junction found Anita Harmon, age 62, of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, guilty of two counts of embezzlement from an employee benefit plan, announced United States Attorney Jason Dunn and U.S. Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that eight defendants have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, heroin and fentanyl which carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life in prison and a $10,000,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the latest reporting on allegations of N.R.A. self-dealing...
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: LANDER, Wyo. - The Wind River Wild Horse Public Off-Range Pasture, in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management and Wyoming Honor Farm, will host a free public event and wild horse adoption May 31-June 1. The ranch owners share the BLM’s commitment to place excess wild horses and burros into private care in order to maintain healthy animals on healthy, productive public rangelands.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael Greenholtz, age 24, of Cairo, New York, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for illegally possessing a.22 caliber revolver as a prohibited person.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Brian Kainu, 37, Superior, Wisconsin, is charged with two counts of distributing methamphetamine, one count of possessing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By State Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement on security forces’ use of violence against peaceful protesters in Sudan...
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: National Park Service to Commemorate Memorial Day at Fort Harrison National Cemetery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Virginia man pleaded guilty yesterday to possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
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 DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Force Multiplier Solutions CEO Robert C. Leonard was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison and ordered to pay $125 million in restitution for his role in a bribery scheme that took down multiple public officials and precipitated the collapse of Dallas County Schools, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that LUIDJI BENJAMIN, a/k/a “Zoe," was found guilty of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking of a minor following a five-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2019
News Release: DENVER -- U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn recognized the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and tribal police officers on National Peace Officers Memorial Day, which falls in the middle of National Police Week. In October 1962, Congress enacted a joint resolution, which the President signed, declaring...
