News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Defendant Identified After Posting Racist Messages, Identifying Himself as a Neo-Nazi, and Discussing Mass Shootings of Synagogues on an Online Video Game Website.
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 $6.7 million in airport infrastructure grants to two airports in the state of Wisconsin. 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: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that defendant WAYNE BANKS, 33 years of age, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019 by U.S. District Court Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon for charges relating to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Former President of Transportation Company Found Guilty of Violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Other Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man arrested by Newport Police members of the DEA Drug Task Force in August 2018 as he arrived at a pre-determined location in Newport to deliver heroin he arranged to sell to an undercover Newport Police Department detective was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for trafficking heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and crack cocaine, and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By State Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, met with Central Tibetan Administration President Dr. Lobsang Sangay on Wednesday to discuss human rights violations the Chinese Communist Party inflicts on the people of Tibet.
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 $12.6 million in airport infrastructure grants to five airports in the state of Georgia. 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: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Alan Eder Torres-Gomez, 30, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation.
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 $2.1 million in airport infrastructure grants to Little Falls/Morrison County/Lindbergh Field in the state of Minnesota. 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: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced Jimmy Lindsey, age 22, of Springfield, Louisiana, to 132 months in federal prison following his convictions of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, marijuana, and oxycodone, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Attorney General William P. Barr today launched a national strategy 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 Nevada, who will develop...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Sing We All Merrily: A Colonial Christmas.
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 $7 million in airport infrastructure grants to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. 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: Yakima Woman Sentenced in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Lamar Clancy, 26, has been sentenced to 243 months in federal prison for the attempted armed robbery of the Boost Mobile Store at 4684 Millbranch in Memphis. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
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 $5.5 million in airport infrastructure grants to two airports in the state of Iowa. 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 US DOT Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) sent a letter to Lieutenant General Todd T. Semonite of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), expressing his concerns with the Corps’ review of the Clean Water Act Permit for the development of an open pit mine to be constructed in the Bristol Bay watershed, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday in connection with unlawfully importing salamander and turtle species.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: McALLEN - A 46-year-old local man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of health care fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Eduardo Carrillo, of McAllen, pleaded guilty Nov. 20, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to the arson at the Columbia Health Center (operated by Planned Parenthood Great Plains) on Feb. 10, 2019.
