News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita lawyer was sentenced today after pleading guilty to being involved in a cyberattack, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. He was ordered to pay a $375,000 fine and restitution of $55,200.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Clintford Joseph, Jr. of St. Croix was arrested Oct. 10, 2019 on a warrant for the charges of Concealing a Person from Arrest and making a False Statement.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos: We are troubled by the U.S. Department of Education’s (“Department") response to a recent Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report on student parents in higher education.[i] The Department’s rejection of all of GAO’s recommendations to provide additional support to student...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The second of two Columbus men who murdered, tortured, assaulted and intimidated people as part of their drug-distribution conspiracy was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 365 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, the United States Attorney’s Office, along their local, state, and federal law enforcement partners, will visit schools across South Carolina to meet with students as a part of South...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agricultural producers now can enroll in the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs - two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) safety net programs - for the 2020 crop year. Meanwhile, producers who enrolled farms for the 2018 crop year have started receiving more than $1.5 billion for covered commodities for which payments were triggered under such programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of time served (approximately 19 months), to be followed by three years of supervised release on his conviction of bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: The FAA will hold a Drone Advisory Committee (DAC) meeting on Oct. 17, 2019 in Washington, D.C.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, five committee and subcommittee chairs sent a letter to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense expressing profound concerns about President Donald Trump’s immoral and reckless decision to withdraw U.S. forces from northeast Syria. The President’s decision betrays...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Two International Shipping Companies Pay $1.8 Million for Failing to Notify the Coast Guard of a Hazardous Vessel Condition and Concealing Vessel Oil Pollution.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- A total of 28 adult California red-legged frogs (Rana draytonii) were discovered in the four translocation sites that were set up by National Park Service biologists in 2014 in an effort to re-introduce the threatened species back into the Santa Monica Mountains.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: HUNTSVILLE - A joint federal, state, and local law enforcement initiative has resulted in the arrests of 36 individuals on a variety of criminal charges, including drug trafficking, money laundering, using communication facilities to facilitate drug trafficking and various firearms offenses, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - For employees of the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP) at DOE's Idaho National Laboratory Site, the anticipated completion of the facility’s transuranic (TRU) waste debris treatment mission this fall is bittersweet.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita lawyer was sentenced today after pleading guilty to being involved in a cyberattack, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. He was ordered to pay a $375,000 fine and restitution of $55,200.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former lawyer in Wichita was sentenced today to 36 months in custody for embezzling from clients, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. He was ordered to pay restitution of more than $603,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: For Conspiracy to Distribute Crack Cocaine.
