News from November 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing entitled “Caring for Aging Americans" on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019 at 10:00 AM in room 1100 Longworth House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the arrest of Nicholas Allen Groves (35, Ocala) on a criminal complaint charging him with possession of a firearm affecting commerce by a convicted felon. If convicted, Groves faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Freddie Grant, age 59, of Elgin, was resentenced to the statutory maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison after his conviction for being a felon in possession of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON, TX-FBI Houston’s Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Perrye K. Turner welcomed representatives from the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, President Donald J. Trump formally nominated Dan Brouillette to serve as the next U.S. Secretary of Energy. Brouillette, current U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy, would replace sitting Secretary Rick Perry if confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Cleveland, OH-The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District awarded a $425,000 contract to Ryba Marine Construction Co, for ecosystem restoration within the Stanford Run Watershed, near Peninsula, Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon National Park is initiating water conservation measures for the South Rim, including Desert View, from Nov. 11-18, 2019, for scheduled construction at the Indian Garden South pump house.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Braddock, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Central Islip charging Tameshwar Ammar, a medical doctor in Roslyn, New York, with writing prescriptions for oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance, without a legitimate medical purpose. Ammar was arrested this morning, and is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Steven I. Locke.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Enticed at Least 10 Underage Boys to Produce Sexually Explicit Images and Videos. Sexually Abused One Victim, in Exchange for Cash and Marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his role in a scheme to obtain and ultimately cash more than $1 million in fraudulent income tax refund checks issued by the United States, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Two Chelsea men were sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for their role in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking and money laundering ring operating between Massachusetts and California.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released a bipartisan committee report studying counterfeit goods sold online and their effect on U.S. businesses and consumers. The report found that improved information sharing between...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA, Mont. - A California man was convicted of methamphetamine trafficking after he was accused of bringing the drug to the Kalispell, Montana, area for distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person and Possession of a Firearm with an Obliterated Serial Number.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Jessica Ann Smothers (35, Fernandina Beach) with disaster assistance fraud involving Hurricane Irma. If convicted, Smothers faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison, plus payment of restitution to the United States. Smothers was arrested on November 4, 2019. She has been detained pending her January 6, 2020 trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. District Court Judge R. Bryan Harwell sentenced defendant Bobby Paul Edwards, 54, of Conway, South Carolina, to 10 years in prison and ordered him to pay $272,952.96 in restitution to the victim. The defendant pleaded guilty on June 4, 2018, to one count of forced labor for coercing an African-American man with an intellectual disability to work extensive hours at a restaurant for no pay.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following opening statement at the hearing titled "Implementation of the 2018 Farm Bill: Rural Development and Energy Programs."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
