News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The minority owner of Cinelli Iron & Metal Co. (CIMCO) was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for operating a 17-year conspiracy that defrauded customers out of millions of dollars, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LYDIA CABRERA, 36, of Southington, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of bank fraud related to an embezzlement scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: While Employed as a Securities and Exchange Commission Examiner, Defendant Accessed and Disclosed Confidential Information to the Target of an Investigation in Connection with Taking a Job With that Firm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of DILLON GEORGE TAYLOR, 21, for assaulting three individuals with a firearm. TAYLOR pleaded guilty on Oct. 22, 2019, before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 21, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
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By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Fresno, California Man Receives 152 Months; Atlanta, Georgia Man Receives 241 Months.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - James Jamar Warren, 33, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 77 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Two men living in Kansas were indicted today on charges of trafficking in methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - Seasonal closures for three Bureau of Land Management campgrounds along the Trinity River in northern California go into effect Monday, Oct. 28, while two other campgrounds will remain open for winter camping.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - On Wednesday, after a two-day trial, a jury found Netzahualcoyotl Cerna, 40, of Fresno, guilty of one count of carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A civil complaint against eight real properties located in and around Guadalajara, Mexico was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn. The properties described in the complaint are alleged to have been purchased by Rafael Caro Quintero with drug proceeds obtained through his leadership of the Caro Quintero drug trafficking organization, a faction of the Mexican organized crime syndicate known as the Sinaloa Cartel.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: I come to the Senate floor today to express a growing worry: the Democratically-controlled House of Representatives looks increasingly less likely to act this year on USMCA. That threatens passage of the trilateral trade deal this Congress, as next year is a presidential election year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Suudimon Washington, 33, of Harrisburg, PA, was sentenced to 100 months’ incarceration, three years’ supervised release, and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine and $200 restitution by United States District Judge Edward G. Smith for a violent carjacking in Lancaster on Oct. 12, 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican of the House Committee on Natural Resources Rob Bishop (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Representative Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), Representative Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Representative Jody Hice (R-Ga.)...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Ware man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Springfield after being charged with sexual exploitation charges.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Nominations for appointments to the Women in Aviation Advisory Board must be submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) by October 29 and Youth Access to American Jobs in Aviation Task Force nominations must be submitted to the agency by October 30. The panels were announced by Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao on October 9.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building on how to achieve net zero greenhouse gas pollution within the power sector. The hearing is entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for the U.S. Power Sector."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - In 2018, more than 3,100 people died from suspected drug overdoses across New Jersey. On Saturday, Oct. 26, the 18th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is an attempt to cut down on those deaths. Residents of New Jersey can clean out their medicine cabinets of unwanted, unused, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that KAMAL AL JAWHARI, age 28, a native of Lebanon, was charged Friday, Oct. 18, 2019 in a two-count indictment with illegal alien in possession of a firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(5)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2019
News Release: Today, the House will vote on H.R. 777, the bipartisan Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2019. Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Ann Wagner (R-MO) introduced the original version of H.R. 777 on Jan. 24, 2019. The legislation on the House floor today is an updated version of the bill.
