News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - A federal jury has found Richard Franklin Jensen, III (33, Atlanta) guilty of attempted enticement of a minor and attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 4, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The Park Loop Road will close to motor vehicles for the season on Dec 1, with the exception of the two-mile section from the Sand Beach entrance station to Otter Cliff Road (accessible via Schooner Head Road in Bar Harbor) and the Jordan Pond area (accessible via Jordan Pond Road...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Third Degree Burglary was sentenced on Nov. 25, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is joining Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) for a video series that began last week aimed at providing the facts on Speaker Pelosi’s partisan plan for fewer cures.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is joining Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) for a video series that began last week aimed at providing the facts on Speaker Pelosi’s partisan plan for fewer cures.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that former Ashley Borough Police Officer, Mark Icker, age 30, pleaded guilty today before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to violating the civil rights of two females in his custody whom he sexually assaulted.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two Pittsburgh-area residents pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: COOLIDGE, AZ - Join us for sunset and experience the wonder of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument after hours. A short program will begin at 5:15 pm then time will be allowed until 7:00 pm for photography, self-guided exploration, and questions. On Dec. 12, official sunset time is at 5:20 pm.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: SOCORRO, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Socorro Field Office is seeking public comment on the Resource Management Plan (RMP) amendment to establish disposal criteria for a 2.72 acre parcel of public land for the expansion of the San Jose Cemetery located 5 miles south of Socorro in Luis Lopez, N.M. The BLM is also seeking public comment on the conveyance of those lands.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Thursday, December 5, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building entitled “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for Economy-Wide Deep Decarbonization."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Attorney General William P. Barr launched a national strategy last week to address missing and murdered Native Americans. The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Initiative places MMIP coordinators in 11 U.S. Attorney’s offices including the District of Oregon who will develop protocols...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dijon Harris, 53, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking activity. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Rejjie Ni, 22, of Amherst, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with unlawful possession of a machine gun, and unlawful possession of an unregistered machinegun. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on Nov. 26, 2019, John Allen Urfer, age 43, of Grinnell Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner for Receipt of Child Pornography. Urfer was sentenced to 260 months in prison, to be followed by a term of supervised release of twenty years. Urfer was also order to pay $21,000 in restitution to identified victims depicted in the images and videos that Urfer received.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -In her first official act as Chairwoman, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf of the Committee on Oversight and Reform against Attorney General Bill Barr and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross for refusing to produce documents regarding the Administration’s effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Steven M. Boice, 30, pled guilty today to distributing furanyl fentanyl that caused an overdose death in Saratoga County in February 2017, and further admitted to possessing two firearms in furtherance of his drug trafficking activities. He agreed to be sentenced to 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Dan Zhong, a former diplomat of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), was sentenced by United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly to 190 months’ imprisonment and a $50,000 fine. Zhong, the former head of U.S. operations of Chinese Liaoning Rilin Construction...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau appreciates the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General’s commitment to a complete and accurate 2020 Census. However, the management alert entitled “Critical 2020 Census Systems Failed to Meet Peak Recruiting Demands During Testing" appears to rely upon an outdated draft testing document and is no longer current.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Ruth M. Mendonça, the Assistant Inspector in Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), announced the arrest today of JEROME DIMITRIOU, the former executive director of a non-profit...
