News from November 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: When I resumed the Chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee in January, I laid out my top priorities for the committee’s work. For international trade, my agenda included reviewing Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which allows the president, without input from Congress, to impose tariffs in the name of national security.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Florence, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Eron Jordan, 28, of Conway, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS - A Columbus man was sentenced today for robbing a bank in Whitehall, pistol-whipping two of the bank’s employees while demanding money, and conspiring with his girlfriend to hide the gun he used in the robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HENRY FELLELA, JR., 61, of Johnston, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to credit card fraud and identity theft offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Denver Police Department Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today the formation of the new Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF) focusing on deterring, detecting, investigating and prosecuting antitrust crimes, such as bid-rigging conspiracies and related fraudulent schemes, which undermine competition in government procurement, grant and program funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Edwin Martinez-Guzman, 37, of New York, was sentenced in federal court to 120 months in prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Duane Allen Sikes (66, Jacksonville) to 10 years in federal prison for mail fraud, embezzlement of credit union funds, and filing a false federal income tax return. In addition, Sikes was ordered to pay restitution to VyStar Credit...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Wilmer Ham a/k/a Jose Lopez, 33, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves to two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: A Maple Heights man pleaded guilty to crimes related to his plot to launch a terrorist attack in Cleveland on Independence Day. The announcement was made by Assistant Attorney General of National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman for the Northern District of Ohio, and Special Agent in Charge Eric B. Smith for the FBI Cleveland Field Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) is leading a Congressional Delegation to Ottawa, Canada. While in Canada on Wednesday, members will meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland. Chairman Neal intends to raise issues...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: The Memorial Visitor Center at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial will be closed Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, in observance of the federal holiday, Veterans Day and again on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019 for the Thanksgiving holiday. The park grounds, however, will remain open on both days so that visitors...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of two years and three months (27 months) to be followed by two years of supervised release on his conviction for mail fraud, tax evasion, and willful failure to file income tax returns, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Today, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Acting Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter asking Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney to appear at a deposition on November 8, 2019, as part of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry of President Donald J. Trump.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeking Information from a Robbery at First National Bank in Harrah, Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Eric R. Colborn, age 49, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information on Oct. 31, 2019, with conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for evading more than $2.3 million in personal and corporate income taxes between 2002 and 2011, and in 2015, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal jury has convicted a 70-year-old Houston man of fraudulently taking government money for more than 20 years, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Perry Santillo, age 39, of Rochester, New York, pleaded guilty on November 4, 2019, to mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Byung J. “BJay" Pak announces that Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) Brent Gray has been appointed to serve as the District Election Officer (DEO) and, in that capacity, is responsible for overseeing the handling of complaints of election fraud and voting rights abuses in consultation with Justice Department Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
