News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: The Defendants Are Alleged To Have Operated a Money Transmitting Business for the Purpose of Transmitting $6 Million of Illegal Proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Gaafar Muhammed Ebrahim Al-Wazer, 25, of Altoona, PA, was ordered detained in federal custody on three counts of making false statements to Task Force Officers with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Philadelphia Joint Terrorism Task Force.
By State Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which passed both chambers of Congress with broad bipartisan support...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Red Rock Canyon and Sloan Canyon National Conservation Areas will have limited hours on Thanksgiving Day, November 28.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Georgia Nicole Dean, 36, and Ashley Michelle Hill, 32, both of Coarsegold, charging them with selling heroin that resulted in the overdose death of another Coarsegold resident, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), Tom Carper (D-DE), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Ben Cardin (D-MD) praised the Senate's vote to repeal Section 1438 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. The repealed provision would have rescinded $7.6 billion in federal-aid Highway Program contract authority on July 1, 2020. The measure passed the Senate as part of the budget continuing resolution.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 21, 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 this week aimed at providing the facts on Speaker Pelosi’s partisan plan for fewer cures.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida and Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami Field Office announced that Michael Jerome Atkins, 60, was arraigned today by U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick M. Hunt, in Fort Lauderdale, on mail fraud and aggravated identity theft charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Defendant Trafficked Crystal Methamphetamine and Other Drugs into Virginia from Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Gettysburg, PA - Selective demolition work will begin on Monday, December 2 at the historic Warfield house near the intersection of Millerstown Road and West Confederate Avenue. Contractors plan to be on site for about three weeks to complete the first stage of demolition that will include removing the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former executive at Hawthorne-based semiconductor company OSI Systems Inc. was indicted today on charges of using inside information to “short" his employer’s stock and, later, to illegally purchase shares of a company OSI confidentially had targeted for acquisition, in a scheme that allegedly netted a total of more than $567,000 in illicit gains.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: California Resident Pleads Guilty to Telemarketing Conspiracy to Defraud U.S. Consumers.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), Subcommittee Ranking Member Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Mike Douglas Nolan, age 59, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343. Nolan was also ordered to pay total restitution of $130,000.00. The charges arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Christopher Hogg, 61, of Bryn Mawr, PA, and Rennie Rodriguez, 52, of Broomall, PA were arrested and charged by complaint with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a multi-million dollar insurance premium financing fraud scheme. Hogg...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito announced an Essex County, New Jersey, man was charged today for his role in a multi-million dollar money laundering conspiracy and for using a stolen identity in furtherance of the scheme.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee and co-founder of the first-ever Senate Environmental Justice Caucus, spoke today at a hearing of the Senate Democrats' Special Committee on the Climate Crisis entitled, “Perspectives From The Front Lines: How Climate Change Uniquely Impacts Environmental Justice Communities."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Alex Asino, 31, was arrested on Nov. 14, 2019, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Child Exploitation Task Force and was indicted by the Anchorage Grand Jury Wednesday, Nov. 20, in an eight count indictment alleging child sex trafficking, production and distribution of child pornography, and coercion and enticement of a minor.
