News from May 2019
By Commerce Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the Congressional Research Service’s recent report on the effects of the Republican tax cuts...
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: VANCOUVER, CANADA - Today, leaders from the United States and Canada are unveiling a new book, Breakthroughs: Nuclear Innovation in A Clean Energy System, at the Tenth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM10), a forum including ministers from 25 nations, occurring this year in Vancouver, Canada from May 27-29.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that a federal jury in Mobile, Alabama found defendant Mack Doak, 51, and his wife, co-defendant Jaycee Doak, 41, guilty on all charges in a child exploitation case spanning multiple jurisdictions. Chief United...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a criminal information was filed on May 21, 2019, charging Brenda Cruise, age 48, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, with conspiring with others to provide contraband, including illegal drugs, to inmates at the Lackawanna County Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of TONY LENDELL REED, 33, of Memphis, Tennessee, to 240 months in prison for robbery. On Feb. 1, 2019, a federal jury convicted REED of six counts of interference with commerce by robbery, known as the Hobbs Act. The Hobbs Act...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a fentanyl distribution conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: BAR HARBOR, ME - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 3,537,575 visits to Acadia National Park in Maine generated $387.7 million in the state in 2018. That spending resulted in 5,602 jobs and had a cumulative benefit to the state economy of $521.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of 1 year and 1 day, to be followed by 2 years of supervised release on his conviction on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO - U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today that a federal jury sitting in Pocatello returned guilty verdicts against Lex Bennett Goodwin, 34, on five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, transportation of child pornography, and possession of child pornography. Goodwin was also convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal drug and firearm laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States District Judge David J. Hale sentenced Louisville Metro Police Officer Brandon Wood to 70 months in prison, followed by 10 years’ supervised release, after he pled guilty in January to attempted enticement, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Andrew Young (619) 546-7981, Benjamin J. Katz (619) 546-9604, Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - A local small business supporting the EM Richland Operations Office (RL) soil and groundwater program has made history as the first company outside the U.S. Department of Defense to receive a contract under the final phase of the federal government’s Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR).
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: A man who possessed a firearm while subject to an order of protection was sentenced today to more than one year in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Jorge Delgado-Macias (44, Lutz) has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as an illegal alien and aggravated identity theft. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison on the firearm charge and a mandatory consecutive two-year term of imprisonment on the aggravated identity theft charge.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska-The National Park Service (NPS) is mourning the loss of two of its Alaska-based employees following an airplane crash in Whitehorse, Canada on Monday evening.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - On Monday, significant avalanche activity at Triple Arches on the Going-to-the-Sun Road trapped thirteen cyclists on the far side of avalanche debris and left them unable to return down the mountain for a number of hours. No injuries were reported.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo (aka “Jaguar") has been extradited from Mexico to face federal racketeering charges in the Western District of Texas, stated U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Kyle W. Williamson, El Paso Division; FBI Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., El Paso Division; and, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey C. Boshek, II, Dallas Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CANDACE RISPOLI, 32, of Stamford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for embezzling more than $1 million from her employer. Rispoli must also serve the first six months of her supervised release in home confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Maria Lyter, age 60, of Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on May 20, 2019, by Chief United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to four months’ imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release for bank embezzlement.
