News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Defendants Accessed Their Victims’ Computers Without Authorization, Caused Them to Malfunction and Lured the Victims’ Into Purchasing Phony Computer Repair Services.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - A new National Park Service report shows that 1.1 million visitors to Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park in 2018 spent $94.1 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 1,040 jobs in the local area, and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $123 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Tyrone Coriz, 48, of San Felipe Pueblo, N.M., was convicted by a federal jury on Wednesday of two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child in Indian Country. Coriz faces a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment based on his previous conviction for another federal sex crime in 1992.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Joint investigation by DEA, 18th and 17th Judicial Districts identified approximately 240 residential grow locations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man was convicted today of robbing two banks, and attempting to rob a third bank over a 10-day period in July 2018, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that in 2018, 14.7 million park visitors spent an estimated $1.1 billion in local gateway regions while visiting the Blue Ridge Parkway. These expenditures supported 15.9 thousand jobs in the local region and had a cumulative benefit of $1.3 billion in local gateway economies surrounding Blue Ridge Parkway.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that Chief United States District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown sentenced BRYSON TUESNO on May 23, 2019 to 15 years of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for robbing two banks while armed. During the course of these robberies, guns were placed at the head of a bank security guard and a bank teller both of whom testified that they thought they would be killed.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Homestead, Fla. - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,916,800 visitors to the four national parks in South Florida collectively spent $156.3 million in 2018. That spending resulted in 2,089 jobs and had a cumulative benefit to the South Florida economy of $225.4 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Turab Lookman, 67, of Santa Fe, N.M., made an initial appearance in federal court today on charges of making false official statements about his involvement with a program established by the Chinese government to recruit people with access to and knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Demetrius Lowry, a/k/a Little D, 24, of Buffalo, NY, with false declarations before the grand jury, and obstruction of justice. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Surgical Funding Facilitator and Physician Charged in Alleged Nationwide Scheme to Defraud Women in Connection with Transvaginal Mesh Litigation.
By Homeland Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY-17) released the following statement after House Republicans objected to passage of bicameral, bipartisan disaster relief legislation.
By DOE Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and Education and Labor Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott released the following joint statement today on the Trump Administration’s proposed rule to further undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by attempting to reverse anti-discrimination provisions of the law that protect women and transgender Americans’ rights...
By USDA Newswire | May 24, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 113,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to Mexico during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Gregory W. Ehrie, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Newark Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the unsealing of a criminal Complaint in Manhattan federal court charging GUNJIT MALHOTRA...
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member Rob Bishop (R-Utah) announced changes to senior Republican staff. William (Bill) Ball will become Full Committee Deputy Staff Director, while still continuing his role as the Subcommittee Staff Director on Water, Oceans and Wildlife, Ashley Nichols has been promoted to Subcommittee Staff Director on Energy and Mineral Resources, and Lee Lonsberry has joined the Committee as Senior Communications Advisor.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Florence, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Jeremy Lamar Hayes, 29, and Kennedy Boggs, 26, were sentenced in federal court in Florence on federal robbery and gun charges. Hayes previously pleaded guilty to two counts of Hobbs Act Robbery (robbery affecting...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Keyshawn Willis, 23, of Conehatta, Mississippi, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to 132 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for voluntary manslaughter, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Willis was also ordered to pay a $1500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Tommy Robert Spells, also known as Thomas Spell, 32, of Jackson, was sentenced today by U.S. District Carlton W. Reeves to 18 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Spells was also ordered to pay a $1,000 fine.
