News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Suit Alleges Defendants Repeatedly Violated Environmental Regulations.
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and Outdoor Chattanooga will continue offering a series of free, historical bike tours through Chickamauga Battlefield.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Mescalero Apache Tribe Violence Against Women Awareness Program Receives FBI Award.
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service announced today, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration and in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, that a public comment period is open for a Draft Environmental Assessment prepared for two bridge improvement projects on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. -Juan Carlos Rodriguez-Morales, 39, an illegal alien from Honduras, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to unlawful reentry by an alien after removal, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, and Mr. Trey Lund, Acting Field Office Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Washington - Derrick Driscoll received approval as U.S. Marshals Service acting deputy director by Attorney General William Barr April 23, announced USMS Director Donald Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Mercer County, West Virginia, felon who possessed a firearm in May 2018, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Altoona, Pa., was indicted on April 24, 2019, by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotics law, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A local man has entered a guilty plea to filing false joint 2015 tax return, admitting he falsely claimed a tax refund of more than $15,000, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with Acting Special Agent in Charge Sarah Kull of IRS-Criminal Investigation (CI).
By Commerce Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Mr. President, A few weeks ago, the tax filing season came to an end. This filing season was an important mile stone as it was the first under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Congressional Democrats sought to turn the filing season into an indictment of the tax reform through a campaign of misinformation...
By Homeland Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on President Trump’s emergency supplemental request to Congress to appropriate an additional $4.5 billion toward border efforts...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSHUA AMARAL, also known as “Ill Child," 34, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 78 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for firearm offenses related to a shootout in Hartford’s South End in April 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Mr. President, As the chairman of the Finance Committee, I have worked to secure tax policies to help spur entrepreneurship, competition and innovation. Opportunity Zones are an example of the type of tax policy that creates that kind of growth in our economy. Opportunity Zones were created under the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Reggie Denard Goodwin, age 47, of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced to over 5 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine and to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Two men have been charged in federal court in Boston in a superseding indictment with Social Security fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with their roles in a fentanyl conspiracy in Revere.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic City man was sentenced today to 264 months in prison for his role in a drug trafficking and money laundering in the Atlantic County area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A woman carrying more than five pounds of fentanyl in her suitcase as she traveled through Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain and Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark of the Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) of Department of Justice announced today that a federal jury in Reading, Pennsylvania convicted David M. Dunham, Jr. of the following...
By Homeland Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies today approved its fiscal year 2020 bill. In total, the legislation provides $108.1 billion in discretionary funding - $10 billion above the fiscal year 2019 enacted level. The bill next heads to the full Committee for markup.
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: HUNGRY HORSE, Mont. - The Bureau of Reclamation announces the opening of the Hungry Horse Dam Visitor Center for the 2019 summer season.
