News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal jury convicted a Tuscaloosa 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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: FBI Co-Hosts Ninth Annual EU-U.S. Explosives Experts’ Seminar.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - October 9, 2019 - Dionte Breedlove, 25, of Nashville, was found guilty yesterday of robberies affecting interstate commerce and using a firearm during and in relation to crimes of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that United States District Court Judge Terry F. Moorer sentenced Du Minh Tran on October 4, 2019 to serve a term of imprisonment of 120 months followed by 5 years of supervised release for Conspiracy to Possess with...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: Boston, MA - On Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, from 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., the City of Boston, Friends of the Public Gardens, Museum of African American History and the National Park Service will announce the partnership to support the multi-million dollar restoration project of the Shaw Memorial. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Adam C. McFadden pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to wire fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. On April 1, 2019, McFadden previously pleaded guilty to unrelated wire and tax fraud charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced JAQUARIES WASHINGTON, 20, of Wilmington North Carolina to 132 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NY - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Dollar Tree Stores Inc. for unsafe storage of material, obstructed exit routes and blocked electrical panels at the discount retailer’s Elmira, New York, store. The Chesapeake, Virginia-based retailer faces $208,368 in proposed penalties.
By State Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, made the following statement regarding developments in Syria...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that EFRAIN MOLINA, also known as “Frankie," 34, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to a heroin and cocaine trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced ROSALIND JACKSON, of Kinston, NC to 37 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay $393,724 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that SARAH JANE BRINSON, age 34, of Clinton, North Carolina, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan to three months in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons followed by three years of supervised release, for the crime of harboring an alien.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. Rutledge: I am writing to follow-up on the letter House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) and I sent to you on September 22 concerning the reorganization of the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA). That letter posed specific questions concerning the need...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Communications and Technology and Consumer Protection and Commerce...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: There are a few other thank-yous that I would like to make at the outset. First, I want to thank the organizers of this wonderful Gala. In particular, I’d like to thank Kevin Cauley, both for inviting me to speak to this distinguished group of heroes and friends, and more importantly, for his continued...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Jason J. Molina, Acting Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment today charging MICHELLE LYNN GSCHLECHT, formerly known as RICHARD GSCHLECHT, 49, last residing in New Haven, with possession of child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) has expanded its Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program (MSIPP) to include four new consortia across 12 schools.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO - Olivia Sabrina Jay, 23, of Blackfoot, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison for making a false statement to a federal officer, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief District Judge David C. Nye also ordered that Jay serve three years of supervised release after her release from prison. Jay pleaded guilty to the offense on June 25, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: Rye Patch, Nev. - On Sept. 27, the Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca District, transferred a type 4 wildland fire engine to the Rye Patch Volunteer Fire Protection District. The transfer was part of the BLM’s new Rural Fire Readiness (RFR) program, which is designed to enhance collaborative wildland firefighting capabilities by providing equipment to local wildland firefighting partners at no cost.
