News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that John Karl Smith, 26, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was sentenced to 84 months’ incarceration and three years’ supervised release by United States District Judge Paul S. Diamond for the robbery of multiple businesses in Philadelphia during the summer of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: London, KY- Shiloh Adams, 34, of Jeremiah, Ky., and Mitchell Adams, 35, of Whitesburg, Ky., were sentenced Tuesday, to 150 months in prison and 94 months in prison respectively, by United States District Judge Claria Horn Boom, for drug trafficking and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that David Flores-Torres, 26, a citizen of Mexico living in Dunkirk, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison and 30 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-John William Schantz, 28, of Portland, was sentenced today to 100 months in federal prison and four years’ supervised release for illegally importing fentanyl from China for the purpose of making and selling counterfeit prescription pills.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced today the transfer of administrative jurisdiction of approximately 560 acres of Federal lands to the U.S. Department of the Army (Army) to build roughly 70 miles of border barriers. This action comes in response to a series of applications...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Jerome Lamont Duggan, 46, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania was sentenced to 324 months’ imprisonment, five years’ of supervised release and a $2,500 fine by United States District Judge Joseph F. Leeson, Jr., for his crimes related to trafficking a multitude of drugs throughout the Lehigh Valley.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A registered sex offender living in western Kansas was convicted today on federal child pornography charges, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Export Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank) announced that Bernd Zalke Rind, 63, of Broward County, Florida was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution for orchestrating a fraud scheme that preyed on individuals looking to make public impact investments in Africa.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Florida Man Arrested for Making Racially-Motivated Threats in Interference with Election in Charlottesville and Cyberstalking.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced today a health care fraud enforcement action in the state of California, involving charges brought against a total of 26 individuals in the Central District of California for their alleged involvement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: STATESBORO, GA: A former Bulloch County sheriff’s deputy has been indicted by a federal grand jury with possession of child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Aug. 15, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entered into a stipulation agreement with Charles Horn (Horn) for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. Under the terms of the stipulation agreement, Horn waived his right to a hearing and will pay a total penalty of $3,250.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Charges Brought Against 34 Individuals for Alleged West Coast Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Schemes Totaling $258 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Nurse used her employment at hospital to get drugs.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Environment & Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Pathways to Net Zero Industrial Emissions." This is the second hearing in a series of climate change hearings aimed at achieving the Committee’s goal of a 100 percent clean economy by 2050...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building entitled, “Sounding the Alarm: The Public Health Threats of E-Cigarettes."
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), and Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement in anticipation of the Administration’s fuel economy announcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man was sentenced today to six years in prison for exploiting an elderly man’s diminished mental capacity to defraud him of nearly $157,000.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. Mulvaney and Mr. Vought.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2019
News Release: “The United States is a leader in developing next-generation marine renewable energy technologies," said Under Secretary of Energy Mark W. Menezes, speaking at OceanObs’19 in Hawaii. “This Ocean Observing Prize will demonstrate how marine energy technologies are uniquely suited to power the systems that collect data to expand our understanding of the ocean."
