News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: Convicted felon provided names for fraudulent opioid prescriptions in exchange for cash.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: BOSTON, MA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has determined that UPS Ground Freight Inc. - doing business as UPS Freight - violated the Surface Transportation Assistance Act (STAA) when managers retaliated against a driver at the Londonderry, New Hampshire, ...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Hanford Office of River Protection (ORP) recently completed several upgrades years in the making to support the underground waste tanks’ transformation to new digital automation systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Clairton, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 5 years imprisonment and 3 years supervised release, and was ordered to pay $4,000 in restitution, on his conviction of Interference with Commerce by Robbery and Bank Robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Thirteen individuals have been charged, eleven of which are in custody, and eight federal court-authorized search warrants were executed today in a series of FBI Safe Streets Task Force led pre-dawn law enforcement actions, culminating a six-month Project Safe Neighborhoods Investigation into the trafficking of significant quantities of fentanyl and other drugs in Providence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: Darrion Powers, 23, was sentenced for a series of eight robberies committed between December 2018 and February 2019. Judge Sara Lioi sentenced Powers to 70 months in prison and ordered him to pay $4,279 in restitution. After his release from prison, Powers will serve three years of supervised release. Powers had previously pled guilty to each of the robberies.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos: We write to you today regarding the proposed changes to the Civil Rights Data Collection (“CRDC") for school year 2019-20. We urge the U.S. Department of Education (“Department") to withdraw its proposal to eliminate a wide-ranging set of critical data elements that highlight educational...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Jose Razo, age 46, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady upon his plea of guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 5 kilogram of cocaine, 50 grams of methamphetamine and a 1 kilogram of heroin, and distribution of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, Chair of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations, issued a statement following a Tuesday hearing with USDA Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Naomi Earp. During testimony, Deputy Assistant Secretary Earp claimed, “… some frequent filers use EEO complaints to punish managers and supervisors," adding that she believed the practice is “a pretty effective tool.".
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri man was sentenced in federal court today for shooting at a federal probation officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force Needs Your Help Locating Lloyd Eugene Rhodes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A convicted felon who was arrested with firearms and drugs after fleeing from Salina police was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned a 36-count superseding indictment charging JENNIFER FARRELL and JIMIESHA McKOY with narcotics distribution offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Clairton, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 5 years imprisonment and 3 years supervised release, and was ordered to pay $4,000 in restitution, on his conviction of Interference with Commerce by Robbery and Bank Robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES FARRELL, 55, of, East Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to approximately one day of imprisonment, time already served, and two years of supervised release, for defrauding the New Haven County Credit Union. Judge Underhill also ordered Farrell to perform 50 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that JEREMY SHOR, a former trader at Premium Point Investments L.P. (“PPI"), was sentenced to 40 months in prison in connection with his conviction following a jury trial for engaging in...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that JEREMY SHOR, a former trader at Premium Point Investments L.P. (“PPI"), was sentenced to 40 months in prison in connection with his conviction following a jury trial for engaging in...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that Michael O’Bannon, 35, Michael Jones, 37, Jason Reed, 50, and Shaun Myers, 37, all from Kokomo, Indiana, were convicted on drug trafficking, firearms charges and money laundering, following a three-week jury trial, in the federal court in Indianapolis, before U.S. District Judge James R. Sweeney II.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Joroy Nigel Twyman, of Ranson, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 24 months incarceration for distributing cocaine base, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Nov. 14, 2019, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against Rubén Vázquez-Díaz, charging him with three counts each of introducing misbranded animal drugs; introducing adulterated animal drugs; mail fraud; and wire fraud; and one count...
