News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Taurus Tillman, a/k/a Tash, age 30, of Baltimore, to 25 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to participate in a drug distribution conspiracy and a violent racketeering enterprise...
By Homeland Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - A South Texas man was sentenced Tuesday to 21 years in federal prison for his role in a human smuggling scheme resulting in the deaths of two smuggled aliens.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On May 17, 2019, Loren Wessel, 55, a resident of Tucson, was sentenced by United States District Judge James A. Soto for his role in a Medicare fraud scheme. Wessel had previously pleaded guilty to Health Care Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - AWashington County resident was sentenced today in federal court to seven years' (84 months’) imprisonment followed by three years’ supervised release on his conviction for violating the federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Donald Wayne Wilson, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand today on firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Matthew J. Soban, 27, Baraboo, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to seven years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of two handguns. Soban pleaded guilty to this charge on March 12, 2019.
By US DOT Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Ranking Member Bob Gibbs (R-OH) from today’s hearing entitled, “Review of Fiscal Year 2020 Budget for the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Programs":
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A criminal information filed today in U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I., in an ongoing investigation, charges a Brooklyn, N.Y., clothing and goods wholesaler with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and trafficking in counterfeit goods in connection with the alleged sale of more than twenty...
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM and cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho recently launched a 50-day demonstration of the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) as it treats a non-radioactive simulant that mimics waste from an underground tank farm at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory Site.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - Robert Newsome, 36, has been sentenced to 220 months imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA -Jolynn Gilchrist, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to two years probation for tax fraud, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 26-year-old resident of Mission has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction related to a conspiracy that resulted in the death of two illegal aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced NOAH LEE ROWSEY, 19, of Fayetteville to 84 months’ imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised released and ordered him to pay $1,148.00 in restitution.
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) is kicking off a four-part video series spotlighting the site’s environmental research. In part one, OREM explores the history and accomplishments of the DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory ’s Aquatic Ecology Lab.
By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - On Wednesday, May 22, 2019, at 2:00 p.m., the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy will hold a hearing on “Examining For-Profit College Oversight and Student Debt."
By US DOT Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) during today’s hearing titled: “Review of Fiscal Year 2020 Budget for the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Programs."
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Shane Harrigan (619) 546-6981, Caroline Han (619) 546-6968 and Peter Ko (619) 546-7359.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Scott D. Tingler, a Morgantown, West Virginia pharmacist, has admitted to illegally distributing oxycodone, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Matthew J. Sutton (619) 546-8941 and Ryan A. Sausedo (619) 546-9689.
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: MOOSE, WY- Grand Teton National Park rangers responded to a fatal rafting accident today, Tuesday, May 21, on the Snake River. A Grand Teton Lodge Company scenic float raft on a training trip hit a log snag and got tangled. The location was near the historic Bar BC Dude Ranch. Some of the passengers...
