News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Raul Matos, 45, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on April 30, 2019, United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane sentenced Jacob Charles LaFrance, age 29, of Thurmont, Maryland, to 41 months’ imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. LaFrance was also ordered to pay $6,114 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Manuel Alberto Fuentes-Acosta, 46, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced Thursday for reentry of removed alien, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: A man who stole more than 500 federally-protected cactus plants from Lake Mead National Recreation Area has been sentenced to serve 24 months in prison. Williams Starr Schwartz, age 54, will then serve 3 years of supervised release, during which time he is banned from entering the park and surrounding public land. He must also pay $22,655 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - A resident of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of four years and six months, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: Lopez, WA - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be conducting a time-critical removal action under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) at the Turn Point Light Station on Stuart Island. A contractor will be removing lead-contaminated soil at the site...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 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 Raul Matos, 45, of Rochester, N.Y., pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 46-year-old Houston man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Paris Church, 57, of Chester, Pennsylvania was sentenced to 360 months’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Gerald A. McHugh. Church was convicted three separate times by a federal jury in March 2016, February 2017, and again in...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that JHON ALBEIRO PINEDA JIMENEZ, age 37, and PEDRO ANTONIO JIMENEZ, age 65, both Colombians, pled guilty yesterday before United States District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman to Count 1 of their Indictment, which charged conspiring...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Gloucester County man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for possession of unregistered explosive devices and making a false material statement to federal agents.
By State Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were joined today by Senators Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) in introducing a Senate resolution reaffirming the importance of a close partnership ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa announced a hearing titled “Medicare Physician Payment Reform After Two Years: Examining MACRA Implementation and the Road Ahead" to be held next Wednesday, May 8, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: First successful prosecution of top pharmaceutical executives for crimes related to the prescribing of opioids.
By DOL Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s final rule to expand providers’ grounds for refusing patients care on the basis...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Nolly King, 36 of St. Croix, was sentenced Thursday for distribution of crack cocaine, and Thaddeus Hendricks, 39, was sentenced for distribution of cocaine, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. According to court documents, both men were associates of Robert Klyvert who is pending sentencing in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Rhonda Henderson, 48, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to making false statements to Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks today at a hearing where Attorney General William Barr refused to testify...
By DOE Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the signing of two long-term orders authorizing the export of domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Tellurian Inc.’s Driftwood LNG export facility to be built in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, and Sempra Energy’s Port Arthur LNG export project to be built in Port Arthur, Texas. The signing is part of the EU-U.S. Energy Council High-Level Business to Business Energy Forum held in Brussels.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing titled “Understanding the Tax Gap and Taxpayer Noncompliance." The hearing will take place on Thursday, May 9th at 10 AM in room 1100 Longworth House Office Building.
