News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Rodney Alls, a/k/a Session, 49, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of distribution of crack cocaine, was sentenced to serve 25 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Wisconsin and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division hosted a roundtable today for community organizations to discuss the problem of sexual harassment in housing, U.S. Attorney Scott C. Blader announced. The event hosted organizations...
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee cited his previous remarks in 2012 during the contempt hearing for Attorney General Eric Holder...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Richard R. Hemingway, 34, of Ludlow, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Lance E. Walker to 12 months and a day in prison and two years of supervised release for providing false information during the purchase of two firearms. Hemingway pleaded guilty on Aug. 21, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Concord, NH - This morning, this week’s scheduled “Fugitive of the Week," Glenn Michael Adjutant, 21, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force in an apartment in West Charleston, Vermont. Adjutant was wanted on a warrant issued out of the U.S. District Court in Concord, NH for bail violations stemming an original charge of sales of a controlled drug - suboxone.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing entitled “The Economic and Health Consequences of Climate Change" on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. in room 1100 Longworth House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - The DEA’s Phoenix Field Division has finished calculating the amount of drugs collected from those agencies who participated in the April 27th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Arizonans turned out in massive numbers and disposed of 10,915.69 pounds, over five tons, of prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging a former Milwaukee alderman, Willie C. Wade (age: 56), with three counts of wire fraud. According to the indictment, Wade obtained $30,000 in cash from a cooperating individual by falsely...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Administrators of DeepDotWeb Indicted for Money Laundering Conspiracy, Relating to Kickbacks for Sales of Fentanyl, Heroin and Other Illegal Goods on the Darknet.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: A Fort Worth man today pleaded guilty to a federal terrorism charge, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Starting Wednesday, May 15 at 9:00 a.m., staff at Canaveral National Seashore will begin taking telephone reservations for this year’s summer Turtle Watch programs. The number to call is (386) 428-3384 ext. 223.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Richard R. Hemingway, 34, of Ludlow, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Lance E. Walker to 12 months and a day in prison and two years of supervised release for providing false information during the purchase of two firearms. Hemingway pleaded guilty on Aug. 21, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - A local Tucson man was sentenced Monday to 90 years in federal prison for production and distribution of child pornography. His sentenced, which was handed down by U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins, will be followed by a lifetime of supervised release requiring him to register and abide by sex offender conditions.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Dear Acting Secretary McAleenan: Federal resources to detect and prevent domestic terrorism must be allocated based on accurate information about the threats Americans face. We write to request information to better understand how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is fulfilling its statutory...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - Eleven individuals from Durham were indicted May 3, 2019, on federal charges relating to a series of violent robberies, announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina and John A. Strong, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the conviction of CHRISTIAN DAWKINS and MERL CODE for conspiring to bribe various NCAA Division I men’s college basketball coaches. DAWKINS was additionally found guilty of a substantive count of bribery. The defendants were convicted after a two-and-a-half week trial before U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY -- A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned a six-count indictment Wednesday afternoon charging three individuals in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud investors by inducing them to purchase investments in a fraudulent silver trading program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging a former Milwaukee alderman, Willie C. Wade (age: 56), with three counts of wire fraud. According to the indictment, Wade obtained $30,000 in cash from a cooperating individual by falsely...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Two leaders of a Houston-based robbery conspiracy were sentenced to more than a dozen years in prison each this week, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By State Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a hearing to review the FY 2020 USAID Budget Request, with testimony from USAID Administrator Mark Green.
