News from October 2019
By State Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of H.Con.Res.32, a measure calling for justice for United States citizens Ylli, Agron, and Mehmet Bytyqi, who were murdered in the Republic of Serbia in July 1999...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Three Tribes in the Eastern District of Wisconsin were awarded over $2,194,357 in funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Defendant Threatened Victims, Including a Pregnant Woman, at Gunpoint and Assaulted Woman.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) issued the following statement after the committee passed H.R. 4650, the Medicare Dental Act of 2019, H.R. 4665, the Medicare Vision Act of 2019, and H.R. 4618, the Medicare Hearing Act of 2019...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Law enforcement seized more than a kilo of suspected heroin and fentanyl; defendant faces 10 year mandatory minimum sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank joined the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in announcing that DEA will once again conduct one of its most popular community programs: National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday, Oct. 26, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., the public can dispose...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Overland Park man who admitted he collected more than 44,000 images of child porn and shared some with other computer users was sentenced today to 100 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - United States Attorney Robert M. Duncan Jr., will be joined with federal, state, and local partners to have a roundtable discussion about Red Ribbon Week (October 23-31) and the impact of the week on central Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Oct. 22, 2019, United States Attorney Andrew Murray testified at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Sanctuary Jurisdictions: The Impact on Public Safety." U.S. Attorney Murray's oral remarks, as prepared, are below.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man with two prior federal convictions for illegally possessing firearms was indicted by a federal grand jury today for illegally possessing two more firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury today convicted two Chicago Police officers of fraudulently obtaining search warrants and stealing cash and drugs from properties they searched.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, as directed by the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act, Public Law No: 114-322 (WIIN Act), announces public negotiation sessions with CVP contractors for the conversion of water service and existing repayment contracts for prepayment of construction costs. The dates and time of the negotiations are as follows...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Norfolk man pleaded guilty today to the armed robbery of Sprint store in Colonial Heights and three separate instances of armed drug trafficking in Norfolk.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ricardo Casado, 31, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, quantities of fentanyl and cocaine, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Five Transportation Security Administration (TSA) explosive detection canine teams who work out of Washington Dulles International Airport are featured in a new book that shares stories of dozens of canine heroes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of ADAM M. LASHINSKI, 41, to 15 months in prison for filing false tax returns. LASHINSKI, who pleaded guilty on June 25, 2019, was sentenced on Oct. 21, 2019, before Senior Judge Paul A. Magnuson in U.S. District Court in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: PIKE COUNTY, Ohio - EM is on the lookout for students like high school junior Brooke Childers, who recently attended the Science Alliance at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant site.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Dina Titus (D-NV) during today’s hearing titled: “An Assessment of Federal Recovery Efforts from Recent Disasters."
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: TYLER, Texas - Two Texas women were indicted Wednesday on money laundering charges, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown, Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that on Oct. 3, 2019, KENNIE SANTOS-PAYANO, age 24, a resident of Kissimmee, Florida, was indicted by the Federal Grand Jury in a one count indictment, charging him with possession with the intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride.
