News from September 2019
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will hold a Full Committee markup this Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, at 10:00 am in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building to consider the following measures...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -Mike Stuart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, joined by federal, state and local law enforcement officials, will hold a press conference in Beckley on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. to discuss indictments resulting from a long-term investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that defendant Philip Ahr, 68, of Radnor, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 151 months’ incarceration and 10 years’ supervised release by United States District Court Judge Michael M. Baylson after pleading guilty to three counts of distribution, receipt and possession of child pornography. His sentence requires him to register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Leaders and key stakeholders integral to the cleanup program over the past three decades looked back at key moments and lessons learned as EM recognized its 30-year anniversary at this year’s National Cleanup Workshop.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Flat Rock, NC - Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site will offer two special programs during the park’s anniversary week in October. The park was authorized on Oct. 17, 1968, and celebrates 51 years this fall. On Oct. 15, The Gathering Dark will present the music program, “Dylan at Connemara." On Oct. 19, a community reading of Carl Sandburg’s “The Complete Poems," will be held at the amphitheater. Both of these programs are free and open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office reached an agreement today with Athena Health Care Systems (Athena), operator of 16 skilled nursing facilities in Massachusetts, to resolve allegations that they violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by turning away patients because they were being treated for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A durable medical equipment (DME) company owner and his biller have been sentenced for conspiring to submit fraudulent claims to Texas Medicaid, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Karl Justin Dunn, III, of Kearneysville, West Virginia, was indicted today on multiple drug charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: TYLER, Texas -A 45-year-old Tyler, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHARLES WILKERSON, 37, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Rhode Island couple has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges they participated in a scheme that lasted more than twenty years to defraud the United States Government of hundreds of thousands of dollars in federally-funded benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Russell Harrison, 40, of Temple Hills, Md., was sentenced today to nine years in prison for possessing six firearms in furtherance of his participation in a drug trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Timothy M. Dunham, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Anthony Donta Jones, 39, of Atlanta, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. Jones was found guilty on April 10, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: SHOSHONE, Idaho -Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) delivered a patent to convey ownership of 13.78 acres of public land associated with the Lincoln County solid waste transfer station to Lincoln County.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man stopped by Pawtucket Police for a traffic violation and found to be in possession of a loaded firearm, ammunition, several bags of crack cocaine, and a large bag of marijuana pleaded guilty today in federal court to drug trafficking and firearm charges brought in a Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-On Friday, Sept. 13, 2019, Theodore Martin Kirk, 64, of Klamath County, Oregon, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for stealing more than $30,000 in Social Security benefits dispersed in the name of his elderly mother, Nadine Kirk. Ms. Kirk has been missing since March 2010 and is presumed to be deceased.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national residing in Worcester was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for passport fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The United States today filed a lawsuit against Edward Snowden, a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), who published a book entitled Permanent Record in violation of the non-disclosure agreements he signed with both CIA and NSA.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today delivered the following remarks about this weekend’s drone attacks on energy facilities in Saudi Arabia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New York...
