News from November 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a Salvadoran national Monday, Nov. 4, who is wanted in his home country on criminal conspiracy and illicit groupings charges. Jose Carlos Henriquez-Escalante, 27, an MS-13 gang member, was removed from the United States via an ICE Air Operations charter flight and transferred into the custody of Salvadoran law enforcement authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Lauren Nicole Colegrove, 29, of Ocean Springs, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to misprision of felony for her failure to report to authorities, and then affirmatively concealing the fact that a federal crime had occurred, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Defendant Committed 15 Armed Robberies in Nassau and Suffolk Counties in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (“SDNY"), Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ"), and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded $181,392 to SICPA Product Security, LLC based in Springfield, VA to develop a solution for credential issuers to manage and verify digital credentials that are the secure digital equivalent to secure physical credentials without reengineering their current processes and systems.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Yesterday, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA), and Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Sharice Davids (D-KS) sent a letter to President and CEO of Airlines for America...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division hosted a roundtable to discuss the problem of sexual harassment in the workplace, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a Camden drug trafficking organization that distributed large amounts of crack cocaine, furanyl fentanyl and heroin, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Initiative emphasizes enforcing gun prohibitions based on domestic violence convictions and mental health denials.
By State Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, met with Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) President and CEO Jamie Fly yesterday to discuss RFE/RL’s efforts to provide honest and accurate local news in places where the free press is under attack and journalism can be dangerous for those who seek to hold their governments accountable.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $43 million in funding to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies that enable power generators to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Contact: press@oc.usda.gov. Washington, D.C., Nov. 14, 2019 - U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue welcome Brazil’s implementation of an annual duty-free tariff rate quota (TRQ) of 750,000 metric tons (MT) of wheat imports. For many years, Brazil...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The founder and former CEO of a chain of Central Valley rural health clinics will sell 13 properties, remitting proceeds to the United States and the state of California, to resolve allegations that she submitted millions of dollars in false claims to Medi‑Cal, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ramiz Zijad Hodzic, aka Siki Ramiz Hodzic, 45, of St. Louis County, Missouri, was sentenced to 96 months in prison for conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and providing material support to terrorists. Hodzic appeared today before Judge Catherine D. Perry.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A father and son from Bergen County, New Jersey, were sentenced today to 27 months in prison and eight months of home detention, respectively, for their roles in a scheme to use straw buyers and short sales on properties to defraud mortgage lenders out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and to avoid paying taxes on the proceeds of the scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 47 North Dakota counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers who suffered losses due to recent weather events may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Somerset County, New Jersey man, today admitted to engaging in a Ponzi scheme targeting elderly investors and to subscribing to a false tax return, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-A Missoula man who admitted possessing methamphetamine for distribution in the community was sentenced today to 144 months in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release, said U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme. The defendant was also ordered to forfeit $4,247 in U.S. Currency. Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen presided.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 48-year-old Corpus Christi resident has been ordered to federal prison after he pleaded guilty to robbing two convenience stores causing an interference with interstate or foreign commerce, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2019
News Release: On November 8, 2019, a federal jury found Anthony Michael D’Amico, 39, of Boca Raton, Florida, guilty of wire fraud and money laundering, in a scheme where he secretly accessed his employer’s computer network to steal $2.7 million in propriety information.
