News from May 2019
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Administrator David Redl announced his resignation...
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chair Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) issued the following statement today after the Utility Air Regulatory Group (UARG) announced it is disbanding.
By USDA Newswire | May 9, 2019
Release: USDA Issues Notice of Decision to Revise Conditions of Importation for Fresh Peppers from the Republic of Korea into the Continental United States Washington, D.C. - May 9, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is advising the public of its decision to ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago software developer has been sentenced to three months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining $200,000 in grant funds from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Fargo - United States Attorney Drew H. Wrigley announced that on May 8, 2019, United States Magistrate Judge Alice R. Senechal sentenced Jesse James Mertins, age 40, Geneseo, ND, to pay a $15,000 fine and serve five years of probation for violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man was sentenced today to three consecutive life terms plus an additional 40 years in prison for his leadership role in a racketeering conspiracy, multiple murders, multiple attempted murders, and various drug and gun crimes, all as part of his leadership of the Nine Trey Gangsters Bloods gang.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: FBI Doubles Reward for Information Leading to the Arrest of Somerville Bank Robbery Suspect.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing entitled “Overcoming Racial Disparities and Social Determinants in the Maternal Mortality Crisis" on Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. in room 1100 Longworth House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was convicted by a federal trial jury today of his role in a three-months-long conspiracy that included at least 27 armed robberies, culminating in the armed robbery of a Walgreens in Blue Springs, Mo., in which a suspect was fatally shot by law enforcement officers.
By US DOT Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Yesterday, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chair Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO); Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Chair Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-IL); and Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Chair...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today that James Nelson, 63, of Tonawanda, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, oxycodone and hydrocodone within 1,000 feet of a private school. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of one year in prison, a maximum penalty of 40 years and a $2,000,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 9, 2019 – May 5 to May 11, 2019, is National Hurricane Preparedness Week, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reminds rural communities, farmers and ranchers, families and small businesses of assistance we can provide should they be impacted by severe weather this hurricane season. The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging a former intelligence analyst with illegally obtaining classified national defense information and disclosing it to a reporter. Daniel Everette Hale, 31, of Nashville, Tennessee, was arrested this morning and will make his initial appearance today at the federal ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: A member of the Aryan Circle (AC) gang pleaded guilty today to committing an assault resulting in serious bodily injury to the victim in aid racketeering announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Jeffrey B. Jensen of the Eastern District of Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio today announced the filing of a lawsuit against Ohio-based Miller-Valentine Operations Inc. and affiliated companies, owners, developers and builders of 82 multifamily housing complexes located in Illinois, Indiana, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman for the Southern District of New York, Assistant Director John Brown of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division and Assistant Director William F. Sweeney Jr. of the FBI’s New York Field Office announced today ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury has returned a 47-count superseding indictment against suspended Tallahassee City Commissioner Scott Charles Maddox, 51, Tallahassee political consultant Janice Paige Carter-Smith, 54, and John Thomas Burnette, 42, all of Tallahassee, Florida. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: A Honduran man was sentenced today to 33 years in prison for leading a drug trafficking organization that smuggled at least thousands of kilos of cocaine into the United States over the last decade.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: On Friday, May 3, 2019, Attorney General William Barr met with Japanese Minister of Justice Takashi Yamashita at the Justice Department in Washington, DC. The dialogue focused on the nations’ shared commitment to combatting cybercrime and transnational organized crime. The Attorney General and Minister ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice today charged a California man with federal hate crimes, including the murder of one person and the attempted murder of 53 others, for his actions during the April 27 shooting at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue in California. Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband for the Civil ...
