News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Project Guardian, a new initiative designed to reduce gun violence and enforce federal firearms laws across the country. Specifically, Project Guardian focuses on investigating, prosecuting, and preventing gun crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Fred McGee, 46, Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced on November 8, 2019 by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 84 months in federal prison for possessing 100 grams or more of heroin with intent to distribute. McGee pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 19, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Hurricane man was sentenced for a federal firearm offense, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Johnny Ray Thacker, 63, was sentenced by United States District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin to 60 months in prison for carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime. Stuart...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Initiative emphasizes enforcing gun prohibitions based on domestic violence convictions and mental health denials.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester man was resentenced today in federal court for his role in a 1999 conspiracy to rob an armored car depot in Easton, Mass.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that former Parker Adventist Hospital Nurse Jessica Sharman, age 36, of Arapahoe County, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to serve 44 months for stealing fentanyl meant for Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients at Parker...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSEPH GRIFFIN, 42, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, fentanyl. Griffin also admitted that he violated the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC) today named U.S. Department of Energy official Suzanne Jaworowski as its new Steering Group chairperson. IFNEC made the announcement during its global conference in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Initiative emphasizes enforcing gun prohibitions based on domestic violence convictions and mental health denials.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Project Guardian, a nationwide initiative to complement and strengthen the Department of Justice’s existing Project Safe Neighborhoods program, to reduce gun violence and enforce federal firearms laws. In addition to...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Federal and local law enforcement today arrested 14 defendants indicted in November as part of a multi-million dollar continuing criminal enterprise and conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana, mainly within western Jefferson County, announced...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday heard a fiscal year wrap-up of the ongoing migration and humanitarian challenges at the southwest border. The committee discussed the administration’s actions over the past year to curb the unprecedented migration we’ve seen at the southern border.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Initiative emphasizes enforcing gun prohibitions based on domestic violence convictions and mental health denials.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Chesapeake man was sentenced today to 130 months in prison for his role in the armed robbery of a local grocery store.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a hearing titled “Preserving and Expanding Clean, Reliable Nuclear Power: U.S. Commercial Nuclear Reactor Performance Trends and Safety Initiatives."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Initiative emphasizes enforcing gun prohibitions based on domestic violence convictions and mental health denials.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: Lois Soito Admits to Defrauding Saint Alphonsus Health System and the Festival of Trees.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Subcommittee on Health markup on four pieces of legislation to improve maternal health and decrease maternal mortality, accelerate the FDA process to approve generic drugs and combat the youth tobacco epidemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a Richard Lucas, 34, of Williamsville, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing 500 grams or more of cocaine...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) has agreed to resolve allegations that it submitted false and inflated Medicaid claims for long-term nursing home and hospice care. Under the settlement agreement, the state agency has agreed to pay $13,422,550.96.
