News from October 2019
By DOE Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the President’s Executive Order on “Protecting and Improving Medicare for our Nation’s Seniors" this afternoon...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that GREGORIO GALAVIZ-ZAMORA, age 60, a native of Mexico, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to illegally using a Social Security number in order to obtain employment, in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By DOE Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Collegiate teams can test their creativity, ingenuity, and passion for designing highly efficient and innovative buildings by participating in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon® 2020 Design Challenge. Teams must apply by Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Dr. Andrew Mark Ho prescribed "Holy Trinity" cocktail of drugs to patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Naif Abdulaziz M. Alfallaj, 35, a citizen of Saudi Arabia and a former resident of Weatherford, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 151 months in federal prison for making a false statement to the FBI about his attendance at an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in late 2000, as well as for visa fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond woman was sentenced today to nearly 13 years in prison for aiding and abetting multiple robberies, and aiding and abetting the brandishing of a firearm during one of those robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Michael Greene, age 45, of Columbia, was sentenced to 90 days in federal prison and fined $25,000, after pleading guilty to violating the Clean Water Act. United States District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs presided.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Charity Lee, 38, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to possession with intent to distribute cocaine and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: LAFAYETTE, ALEXANDRIA, MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced the resolution of several cases this week, all of which are separately noted, that were brought pursuant to the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program, which is the centerpiece of the Department of Justice’s violent...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Soap Lake, Washington Man Sentenced in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: FBI Oklahoma City Division to Hold Diversity Agent Recruitment Event.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Law enforcement seized ½ kilo of fentanyl from defendant’s vehicle.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Both defendants have previously been convicted of federal drug trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Three indictments were unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn variously charging 20 defendants with racketeering, extortion, loansharking, stalking, attempted sports bribery and related offenses. Among those charged with racketeering were Joseph Amato, an alleged captain in the Colombo organized...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has released its decision for oil and gas leasing and development in the BLM Central Coast Field Office planning area, primarily in Fresno, Monterey, and San Benito counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced to federal prison for a gun crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Herman Lee James, 46, was sentenced to 40 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. James was on federal supervised release at the time of the gun offense.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement, following Donald Trump publicly linking trade talks to investigations of Trump’s political rivals.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: In what is believed to be the first fentanyl distribution case using the dark web and crypto currency in the Southwest Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Region, a federal judge in San Antonio today sentenced 30-year-old Alaa Mohammed Allawi to 30 years in federal prison for distributing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The former co-chairman of a global law firm became the fourth parent to be sentenced to prison in connection with his involvement in the college admissions case.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 53-year-old Sulphur Springs, Texas man has been sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison for child exploitation violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
