News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Correctional Officer Janel Griffin, age 41, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to a federal racketeering charge for participating in a scheme to smuggle contraband into the Maryland Correctional Institute Jessup (MCIJ), including narcotics, unauthorized flash drives, tobacco, and cell phones into the prison. Inmate Corey Alston, a/k/a “C," age 29, pleaded guilty on Sept. 18, 2019, to the same charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement slamming the rushed Congressional Budget Office (CBO) partial score for the partisan Pelosi plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Warren, Michigan man pleaded guilty Oct. 1, to possessing with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PENNI SHERMAN, also known as PENNI PARKER, 52, of Norwalk, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport federal court to fraud and tax offenses stemming from an embezzlement scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida, Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami Field Office and Sheriff Gregory Tony of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BSO) announced the Oct. 4, 2019 seizure of independentgirls.com, an Internet forum for escort services and prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Williamsburg man was sentenced today to six years in prison for travelling to North Carolina to sexually abuse a child, and receiving child pornography from a child in Nebraska.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) reacted to news of the DC appeals court ruling that Mazars USA LLP, the accounting firm that prepared financial statements for President Trump, must comply with the congressional subpoena for the President’s financial records...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Defendant Previously Convicted of Lying to FBI.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site recently released several prairie restoration lesson plans and educational materials for educators to explore. These curriculum-based lesson plans help educators explore the importance of the prairie ecosystem. The lessons are also cross-curricular so...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Terry Thomas, of Detroit, Michigan, has admitted to multiple charges involving an oxycodone distribution operation that spanned two states and four North Central West Virginia counties, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C.- The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement on President Trump’s Executive Order on Protecting and Improving Medicare For Our Nation’s Seniors...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - Due to circumstances beyond our control, tomorrow’s (Saturday, October 12) railroad passenger excursion from Steamtown NHS to East Stroudsburg is cancelled. Guests who have previously made reservations for the trip will receive a full refund; please call 570-340-5204 so our staff may assist with getting you your refund.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: In Midland today, a federal judge sentenced 25-year-old Sean Blake Jobe of Midland, to 30 years in federal prison on firearm and drug trafficking charges in connection with the murder of two Midland residents in July 2015, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, Midland Police Chief Seth Herman and Drug Enforcement Administration El Paso Division Special Agent in Charge Kyle W. Williamson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal jury convicted a Bessemer man, of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Jay E. Town and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent a second letter to Reynolds American, Inc. calling again upon the e-cigarette company to cease all advertising in the United States in order to reverse the youth vaping epidemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Cheswick, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to theft of government property and uttering and possessing false securities, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a funding opportunity for the Desalination and Water Purification Research Program. The goal of the DWPR Program is to increase water supplies by reducing the cost, energy consumption and environmental impacts of treating impaired and otherwise unusable waters.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on October 7, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: A Texas tax return preparer was sentenced yesterday to 60 months in prison for her role in a scheme to defraud the United States and for 27 months (consecutive) for filing a false federal tax return, for a total of 87 months, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: The Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today announced the agency’s case completion numbers topped 275,000 cases for fiscal year 2019 (FY19), the second highest number of case completions in EOIR’s history. This number marks an increase of roughly 80,000 case completions ...
