News from November 2019
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: McLean, Va.- On Tuesday, Dec. 3, the National Park Service will host a meeting to discuss George Washington Memorial Parkway (GWMP) visitors’ recommendations about how to improve safety at key intersections between the City of Alexandria and George Washington’s Mount Vernon. This is the next step in...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Kenneth Wenberg, 73, a medical doctor from Heppner, Oregon, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for failing to report income resulting in a tax loss of approximately $128,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAMON SANCHEZ, also known as “Rome," 28, of Enfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 34 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Central Coast Field Office is lifting its seasonal fire restrictions on Monday, Dec. 2, on approximately 300,000-acres of public land, due to reduced wildland fire potential. This action also lifts target-shooting restrictions on public lands within the field office jurisdiction, including Panoche, Tumey and Griswold hills.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Suffolk man late yesterday on charges of assault with intent to commit murder and discharge of a firearm, stemming from an incident that took place on May 12 in the Great Dismal Swamp, a National Wildlife Refuge.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. Ferriero: We write to request records of multiple White House meetings that took place in 2016 between and among Obama administration officials, Ukrainian government representatives, and Democratic National Committee (DNC) officials. According to recent reports, in January 2016 “some of Ukraine’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A federal judge sentenced 35-year-old ringleader Andrew Sanchez (aka “Freight," “Hakeem") to 15 years in federal prison for his role in a narcotics distribution operation on San Antonio’s eastside, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney John F. Bash.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Department of Transportation will award $13.5 million in airport infrastructure grants to three airports in the state of Pennsylvania. With this announcement, the Trump Administration has invested a historic $10.8 billion in more than two thousand American airports across the United States for safety and infrastructure improvements since January 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Geronda Wilson, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to five years’ probation for her involvement in a drug distribution conspiracy, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A federal grand jury has indicted a Holden man for cocaine and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A major local-based civil engineering company and its parent company have agreed to enter into a three-year deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) in connection with a criminal information charging the company with violating the Federal Election Campaign Act. As part of the agreement, Dannenbaum...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Jhovany Arias-Herrera has been arraigned on the federal charge of forcibly assaulting Homeland Security Investigation, Enforcement and Removal Operations, officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Gregory Lee Hruby, 65, of Brazoria, Texas, was sentenced on Friday to 30 years in federal prison, by U.S. District Court Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, for crossing state lines to engage in sexual acts with minors who had not attained the age of 12 and for possessing visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
Release: Research Aims at Deepening Understanding of the Universe
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Federal prosecutors and the FBI to enhance investigations into Missing Persons, and Develop Protocols for Law Enforcement, Improvements to Data Collection and Analyses, Training and Technical Assistance.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A spinal surgeon was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for participating in a long-running health care fraud scheme in which he received at least $5 million in kickbacks for performing hundreds of spinal surgeries. The overall scheme resulted in more than $580 million in fraudulent bills being submitted, mostly to California’s worker compensation system.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 27-year-old Houston resident and member of The Sauce Factory has been sentenced for conspiracy and sex trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. A Houston federal jury deliberated for less than eight hours before convicting Jaimian Sims May 20 after five days of trial.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) praises Chairman Ajit Pai and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for voting to protect taxpayers and secure our nation’s communications infrastructure. The vote was to, “bar use of the Universal Service Fund for the purchase of equipment and services from companies that pose a national security threat."
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Three wild cows that miraculously showed up on the North Core Banks of Cape Lookout National Seashore, have returned home to Cedar Island, NC to be reunited with their herd.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Nicholas Pilchak (619) 546-9709 or Andrew Haden (619) 546-6961.
