News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Max Paul Riestra, 42, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine and conspiracy to commit money laundering, was sentenced to serve 216 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment, unsealed today, charging 12 defendants with federal drug trafficking offenses. The indictment was announced by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: HAZLETON, Pa. - The Hazleton City Police Department received a check in the amount of $295,787.11 today from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Philadelphia office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Chad Swartwood, age 40, of Castle Creek, New York, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with attempted sexual exploitation of a child, attempted receipt of child pornography, and possession of child pornography. The announcement was made by United States...
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following statement after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sent a letter to Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) regarding House Democrat’s request for six years of President Trump’s tax returns...
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: From Tuesday, May 16 to Wednesday, May 17 the Grand Canyon National Park Division of Science and Resource Management (SRM) will apply minor spot spray treatments of herbicide around the Grand Canyon Lodge and campground in the North Rim Developed Area to aid in the control of an especially invasive grass species for which mechanical removal is ineffective.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Bruce Redmond, age 30, of Dallas, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 7, 2019, for illegal possession of firearms and drug trafficking in Luzerne County.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS, Montana - Reclamation's May forecast of the April through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn Basin is as follows...
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation providing tax relief to children who have lost a parent serving in the military.
By State Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), senior members of the committee, today sent a letter to President Trump ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: Amanda Sheridan Forged Prescriptions for Pain Pills and Other Controlled Substances.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), U.S. Representatives John Katko (R-NY) and Joe Neguse (D-CO), and U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced a bicameral bill that would give Americans overwhelmed by student loan debt ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - U.S. Attorney Robert M. Duncan, Jr. recognizes 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 10, 2019
News Release: Three Palm Beach County residents have been charged with orchestrating a $3.6 million investment fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Three men have been charged with conspiring to steal trade secrets from aircraft companies as a shortcut to developing and selling their own aircraft product.
By US DOT Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As Congress works to tackle the widespread, complex issue of addressing PFAS contamination, yesterday, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), joined a bipartisan group of senators in announcing the introduction of the PFAS ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Niles O’Neil, age 28, of Plattsburgh, New York, pled guilty yesterday to possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Clarence Yellow Hawk, age 29, of Kyle, South Dakota, was found guilty of First Degree Murder and Discharging a Firearm During a Crime of Violence as a result of a federal jury trial in Rapid City, South Dakota. Yellow Hawk was found not guilty of Possessing a Firearm with an Obliterated Serial Number. The jury returned the verdicts on May 3, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to a proposed payment rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for inpatient and long-term care hospitals...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of CHRISTOPHER DOUGLAS WOOD, 43, to eight months of confinement after firing three shotgun rounds at the Federal Reserve Bank building in downtown Minneapolis.WOOD, who pleaded guilty on Dec. 17, 2018, was sentenced before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
