News from November 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) today introduced a continuing resolution to extend federal government funding through December 20 and keep the government open after the current stopgap funding law expires this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Thema Liverpool, age 31, of St. Croix, pled guilty on Nov. 18, 2019 to conspiracy to defraud the United States.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey today delivered the following remarks to the House Rules Committee in support of an appropriate rule for the House to consider an, a continuing resolution to fund the government through December 20.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: DALLAS - An MS-13 gang member was sentenced Friday to 20 years in federal prison for his role in a brutal machete attack at a park just outside Dallas, Texas, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Prof. Bruce Bagley Participated in the International Laundering of over $2 Million Derived from Venezuelan Bribery and Corruption.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, Rep. Harley Rouda, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment, will hold the Subcommittee’s fourth hearing examining PFAS contamination entitled, “Toxic, Forever Chemicals: A Call for Immediate Federal Action on PFAS."
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) has reopened the Oregon Inlet Campground following its closure for the coastal storm. The Frisco and Cape Point Campgrounds currently remain closed.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Nov. 14, 2019, United States Chief District Judge John A. Jarvey, sentenced Devonte Darnell Holston, 25, of Davenport, Iowa, to 90 months in prison, after Holston pleaded guilty to Felon in Possession of a Firearm, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging four members of a Grand Island, NY, family for their roles in two bank robberies. Timothy L. Mulvey, 33, is charged with aggravated bank robbery; entering a bank...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Portland couple pleaded guilty today in federal court to defrauding a local elderly couple of approximately $1.8 million in a scheme lasting more than two years.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - Seven New York-based employers have partnered with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York Wednesday, Nov. 13 by joining the agency's employment compliance program IMAGE, or "ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Shawnee, Kansas, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm and possessing cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TEXAS - Visitor services will return to Big Bend National Park’s Castolon Historic District on Monday, November 18th. The area has been closed to entry since two historic structures suffered major damage in a fast-moving wildfire last May.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two Trenton men have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a violent drug trafficking conspiracy that allegedly distributed more than one kilogram of heroin in Trenton and the surrounding area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Alaska - The U.S. Marshals, Anchorage Police Department and Alaska State Troopers have partnered to create a Sex Offender Task Force utilizing the resources and jurisdictions of each agency to ensure the compliance of convicted sex offenders living in Alaska. The overall mission of this recently created, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two Trenton men have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a violent drug trafficking conspiracy that allegedly distributed more than one kilogram of heroin in Trenton and the surrounding area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles man and his long-time girlfriend were sentenced today to federal prison terms for collecting and storing extortionate “taxes" for the man’s brother, an imprisoned Mexican Mafia member, and for acting as the brother’s eyes and ears on the street, delivering coded messages to him, including one message that resulted in an individual being marked for death.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Dear Administrator Dickson: We write regarding the status of several important safety provisions included in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-254; “FAARA.") These provisions were included in the FAARA to ensure that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has the appropriate number of...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: 10:00 a.m. 1300 Longworth House Office Building. WITNESS LIST. The Honorable Glen R. Smith, Chairman and CEO, Farm Credit Administration, McLean, Virginia. Accompanied by: Mr. Robert Coleman, Chief Operating Officer, Farm Credit Administration, McLean, Virginia. Mr. Charles R. Rawls, General Counsel,...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI") announced the arrest today of BRUCE BAGLEY on charges of conspiracy to commit money...
