News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: DENVER -- Jason Dunn, the United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, today announced a resolution that resolves fraud allegations against All Vision LLC (“All Vision"), a company that manages a portfolio of licenses for billboards and other outdoor advertising. Under the resolution announced...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today cautioned the Internal Revenue Service against indulging Democrats’ political demands to investigate the National Rifle Association. Such ideological weaponizing of the agency would harm the public trust and repeat the mistakes of the Obama Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Bernardino County tax preparer was sentenced this morning to 26 months in federal prison for filing fraudulent tax returns with the IRS as part of a scheme that illegally generated more than $1 million in refunds.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. Oct. 10, 2019 - The National Park Service (NPS) has approved subsurface composition tests of five locations along a 15.29-mile section of the Mineral King Road in Sequoia National Park. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is gathering needed information...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, couple convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance were sentenced on October 8, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Domestic Assault by an Habitual Offender, Child Abuse, and Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, sent a letter conveying a subpoena to Secretary of Energy Rick Perry for key documents by Oct. 18, 2019, as part of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky.- Roberto Bernal Salas, 32, pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing and intending to distribute three kilograms of cocaine and 122 gram of crack cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing entitled “Investing in the U.S. Health system by lowering drug prices, reducing out of pocket costs, and improving Medicare benefits" on Thursday, Oct. 17, at 10:00 AM in room 1100 Longworth House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Crack, Heroin, Fentanyl, and Firearms Were Seized.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett today sentenced Kevin B. Merrill, age 54, of Towson, Maryland, to 22 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy and wire fraud arising from a $396 million investment fraud scheme that operated from...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Defendants Orchestrated Scheme to Advance Their Business Interests and the Political Interests of At Least One Ukrainian Government Official Through Contributions and Donations to Multiple Candidates and Campaign Committees in Violation of Campaign Finance Laws; Two Others Charged in Foreign Donor Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Martin Nicholson, age 32, of Geddes, New York, pled guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Hon. Thomas J. McAvoy to Willfully Causing the Sexual Exploitation of a Child, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, and James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: President of Texas-Based Beverage Company Indicted for Obstruction of Justice.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: CALAIS, ME - The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking proposals from interested parties to lease the historic McGlashan-Nickerson House within Saint Croix Island International Historic Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn - On October 9, 2019, James Nickolas Renfro, 27, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, Senior U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 200 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-A Bozeman man who admitted to viewing and downloading child pornography for years was sentenced today to 41 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Kevin Merrill Also Obstructed Justice After his Arrest; SEC Has Related Civil Action.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
Release: Washington - Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) in coordination with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and New York City Department of Parks and Recreation ...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Antonio Ulises Perez, a 38-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador accused of rape, Wednesday, after the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) failed to honor an ICE detainer and released him from custody.