News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A North Attleboro man was charged on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, with child pornography offenses.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) has invited United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to testify at the joint Subcommittee hearing on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act on October 16. The invitation comes after Pallone and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) sent Lighthizer a letter in August expressing their concerns regarding the export of language mirroring Section 230 in trade agreements.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - A Michigan man was sentenced to federal prison for a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Todd Stephens, 33, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for aiding and abetting the possession with intent to distribute quantities of fentanyl. His prison sentence is to be followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The former executive assistant of a Waltham-based technology company has been charged and agreed to plead guilty in connection with a fraud and embezzlement scheme that netted over $3 million.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
Release: DES MOINES - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Iowa Department of Transportation, and Iowa’s airports today held a press conference at Des Moines International Airport (DSM) to remind Iowa residents that starting Oct. 1, 2020, travelers will need a REAL ID-compliant form of identification to board a flight at DSM and all U.S. airports. Signs are currently posted at all Iowa airports reminding travelers of the Oct. 1, 2020 deadline.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Allegany, New York has been sentenced in federal court to 2 years probation, ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and complete 50 hours of community service on his conviction of theft of mail by postal employee, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: Texas Physician Convicted in $16 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The former executive assistant of a Waltham-based technology company has been charged and agreed to plead guilty in connection with a fraud and embezzlement scheme that netted over $3 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Bertoldo Arellanes-Perez, 32, of Chihuahua, Mexico pleaded guilty today to conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute heroin, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Bluefield woman pled guilty to selling drugs, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Cassandra Tiller, 36, pled guilty to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Elk Point, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Mail Theft and thirteen counts of Mail Fraud.
By State Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on President Trump's decision to withdraw United States forces from northern Syria...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, hosted the new U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' North Atlantic Division Commander, Major General Jeffrey L. Milhorn, and the new Philadelphia District Commander, Lt. Col. David C. Park, ...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: DELAWARE, OH - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Liberty Casting Company for exposing employees to crystalline silica above the permissible exposure levels at the Delaware, Ohio, foundry. The company faces $270,048 in proposed penalties for three repeated and 18 serious health violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On October 7, 2019, Leonard Wayne Mullinax, 49, of Gaffney, South Carolina, was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 235 months in federal prison following convictions for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, launder money and possessing firearms in furtherance of his drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: St. Louis MO --- Tyron F. Kemp, 30, of St. Louis and Riverview, Florida, was sentenced to six months in prison for filing false claims with the Internal Revenue Service as part of a bogus tax refund scheme. Kemp appeared before United States District Judge Audrey F. Fleissig.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FREDDY ANTONIO MARTE-JEREZ, 58, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in Danbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to approximately 15 months of imprisonment, time served, for illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A Patterson man pleaded guilty today to defrauding concert promoters and investors of $550,000 by claiming to be able to secure well-known artists to perform concerts, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: Justice Department Files Brief in Maine School Choice Appeal.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) has invited United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to testify at the joint Subcommittee hearing on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act on October 16. The invitation comes after Pallone and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) sent Lighthizer a letter in August expressing their concerns regarding the export of language mirroring Section 230 in trade agreements.
