News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national formerly residing in Lawrence pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to Social Security and benefit fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Wood County woman pled guilty to a drug trafficking offense, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Brooke Alexandria Kimble, 21, of Parkersburg, pled guilty to distribution of fentanyl.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) released the following statement after the Senate passed a package of four appropriations bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Valentina Marinkovic, age 19, of Baltimore, Maryland was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty upon her plea of guilty on a count of bank fraud and three counts of aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to request a briefing on efforts to improve the integrity of the application and assignment process of the National Provider Identifier (NPI).
By DOE Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced selections for up to $24.9 million in funding to drive innovative, industry-led technology solutions to advance the marine and hydrokinetics industry and increase hydropower’s ability to serve as a flexible grid resource. Innovative ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former resident of Monmouth County, New Jersey, was indicted today on charges that he made threatening telephone and email communications to elected state officials, judges, law enforcement officers, and attorneys, and phoned in false bomb threats to local and state government offices, a police department, two law firms and a commercial establishment, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By State Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today delivered the following remarks on the House floor...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Yakima, WA - The U.S. Marshals Service Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force (PNVOTF) arrested 36 year old Justin Ortega who was wanted by the Yakima Police Department on four counts of Rape of a Child First Degree, two counts of Child Molestation, and one count of Assault of a Child in the 3rd Degree.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Louisiana Man Sentenced for Violating Civil Rights of Woman with Disabilities.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, issued the following statement regarding the passage of the Agriculture Appropriations Bill. The bill includes an amendment introduced by Ranking Member Stabenow to provide $5 million to set up the new Urban Agriculture Office at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) authorized in the Farm Bill.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, the Acting Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted 232 to 196 to adopt a resolution that provides a clear path forward as the House enters the next phase of the inquiry, including open hearings...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former resident of Monmouth County, New Jersey, was indicted today on charges that he made threatening telephone and email communications to elected state officials, judges, law enforcement officers, and attorneys, and phoned in false bomb threats to local and state government offices, a police department, two law firms and a commercial establishment, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Sentences. Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson sentenced OSCAR MACIAS-UGARTE, 40, of Mexico on Oct. 25, 2019 for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Macias-Ugarte was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He/ received time served plus ten days to allow for deportation...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the Stop the Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act, bipartisan legislation introduced today by Reps. John Katko (R-NY) and Kathleen Rice (D-NY) to combat illicit fentanyl, of which Walden is an original cosponsor.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the Stop the Importation and Manufacturing of Synthetic Analogues (SIMSA) Act, bipartisan legislation introduced today by Reps. John Katko (R-NY) and Kathleen Rice (D-NY) to combat illicit fentanyl, of which Walden is an original cosponsor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 22-year-old Mexican national living in Liberty, Texas, has been sentenced for federal kidnapping violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - After a three-day jury trial, a federal jury convicted Gene Allen Howell, 38, of Selmer, Tennessee of two counts of aggravated bank robbery, two counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence and being a felon in possession of a firearm. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the guilty verdict today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A Michigan resident has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years’ imprisonment on his conviction of distribution of carfentanil, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Yosemite National Park and The Ansel Adams Gallery celebrated the winners of the 9th Annual Gateway Expressions Student Art and Photography Contest earlier this month.
