News from October 2019
By DOE Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today convened a full committee hearing to consider three recreation-related bills introduced by Sens. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated eight Alabama counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Clay, Coffee, Coosa, Covington, Elmore, Jackson, Randolph, and Tallapoosa counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to the Treasury Department weakening the Obama administration’s anti-inversion rules...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: For Identity Theft And Bank Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Erika Paola Intriago (44, Tampa) today pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with a fraud scheme involving her posing as an immigration attorney to victims in Chicago and Tampa. Intriago faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Terry Knope, age 46, was sentenced to 336 months imprisonment today in the Eastern District of Louisiana for conspiring with other members of his family to obtain forced, unpaid household labor and services from D.P., an adult woman with cognitive disabilities, for assaulting D.P. and violating her federal Fair Housing Act rights because of her disabilities, and for helping others manufacture methamphetamine on his property.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: FBI Crime in the United States Report Shows 3.9 Drop in Violent Crime in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - U.S. Attorney David J. Freed joined District Attorney Mark Powell today in announcing $900,000 in grant funding by the U.S. Department of Justice to the Lackawanna County District Attorney’s Office to facilitate the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Site-based Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man who was escaped from federal custody at the Gerald R. Hinzman Center in Cedar Rapids was sentenced to additional time in federal prison on Oct. 29, 2019, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Thanks in part to the generous sponsorship of the Dwight David Eisenhower Society, Eisenhower National Historic Site is pleased to announce its annual call for applications to intern for the summer of 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
Release: PORTLAND, ME - An Androscoggin County, Maine, woman was caught with a 9 mm handgun loaded with six bullets at Portland International Jetport on Wednesday, Oct. 30, after Transportation Security Administration officers at the airport stopped her from bringing it past the checkpoint and onto an airplane.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau published preliminary results today from the 2019 Census Test. The 2019 Census Test was designed to allow the Census Bureau to better plan for the nonresponse follow-up operation and communications strategies for the 2020 Census. The randomized test measured the impact of the inclusion...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - Two Frankfort brothers appeared in federal court on Thursday, before U.S. District Court Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, and admitted to committing wage and hour offenses. One brother also admitted to knowingly receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: For Distribution Of Methamphetamine and Possession Of A Firearm By A Convicted Felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Linda Paolini, 44, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro to two counts of manufacturing and attempted manufacturing of child pornography, and one count of online enticement of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A Glendive woman who admitted selling methamphetamine and heroin in the Billings community for a Denver dealer was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown announced today that three search warrants were executed this morning in Dallas County, Texas in relation to a drug trafficking organization in the Eastern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Senator Cites Bipartisan Support, Saying Americans 'Want This'.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA -Lawrence Keefe, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, today announced the convictions of Erik M. Schabert, 48, a physician, and his ex-wife, Mika Kamissa Harris, 49, both of Gainesville, Florida, on health care fraud and money laundering charges involving more than $8 million. The convictions came after a three-week federal jury trial that involved more than 45 witnesses and over 850 exhibits introduced into evidence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - A 1st degree murder suspect was arrested in Memphis earlier yesterday. A first degree murder warrant was issued by Shelby County for the arrest of Terranisha Jones on 10-29-19. Investigators with the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force tracked her to a residence at the 2400 block of Charjean. She was taken into custody without incident.
