News published on Federal Newswire in November 2019

News from November 2019


News Release: Memphis, TN - The U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Fugitive Task Force is assisting local authorities with the recapture of escaped prisoner Samuel Bridges.


Rapid City Woman Sentenced to 14 Years for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine

News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Nov. 1, 2019, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.


News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Smithfield, Nebraska, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on November 4, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.


News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Aurora Police Department Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.


Neal, Wyden, Lewis, Booker Request GAO Study on Opportunity Zone Program

News Release: Dear Comptroller Dodaro: The “Opportunity Zone" provisions of Public Law 115-97 allow investors to reduce and defer taxes on capital gains by reinvesting those gains in “qualified opportunity funds," which invest in opportunity zones. In addition, for investments in qualified opportunity funds held...


U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott Announces Progress in Making Our Communities Safer Through Project Safe Neighborhoods

News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Two years ago, the Department of Justice announced the revitalization and enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), the centerpiece of the department’s violent crime reduction strategy.


News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TYLON CEASAR, 19, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of distribution of heroin.


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man pled guilty to a drug crime announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Harold Battle, 49, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.


News Release: BILLINGS-The U.S. Attorney’s Office held on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation today the first of four public trainings this week on how to use a national database system for missing persons, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.


Department of Energy Announces $80 Million For New Grid Modernization Lab Call Projects

Release: WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the results of the 2019 Grid Modernization Lab Call with funding of approximately $80 million over three years. This funding aims to strengthen, transform, and improve the resilience of energy infrastructure to ensure the nation’s access to reliable and secure sources of energy now and in the future.


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 “Hearing on S. 2662, the Growing American Innovation Now (GAIN) Act."


News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge convicted 47-year-old Bradley Lane Croft, owner of Universal K-9, Inc., of scheming to defraud the federal government with respect to the use of GI Bill benefits to train service canines and their handlers, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; FBI Special Agent...


News Release: BOSTON - A Winchester man was arrested yesterday and charged with assaulting a federal postal worker and cocaine possession.


Miami Super Bowl Host Committee And Partners Launch Outdoor Stop Sex Trafficking Campaign

News Release: “Station Domination" takes place at Knight Center Metromover Station.


Grassley, Wyden named 2019 Champions of Retirement Security

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) today honored Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) with the organization’s “Champion of Retirement Security" award for leadership to advance legislative solutions to address the nation’s looming retirement crisis by helping Americans save more for retirement.



Wyden, Neal, Booker, Lewis Request GAO Study on Opportunity Zone Program

News Release: Dear Comptroller Dodaro: The “Opportunity Zone" provisions of Public Law 115-97 allow investors to reduce and defer taxes on capital gains by reinvesting those gains in “qualified opportunity funds," which invest in opportunity zones. In addition, for investments in qualified opportunity funds held...


News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), today announced charges against ASA SAINT CLAIR for...


News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man who admitted selling fentanyl and firearms on multiple occasions was sentenced today to more than three years in federal prison.


News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody today sentenced Myron William Ernst (61, Orlando) to 10 years in federal prison for bank robbery.