News from September 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - A Chinese national pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for running an Orange County-based “birth tourism" business that catered to wealthy pregnant clients and Chinese government officials, charging them tens of thousands of dollars to help them give birth in the United States so their children would get U.S. citizenship.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Tyrone Mayes, 28, of Columbia, was sentenced to 4 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Defendant was arrested in Spain last evening as government seeks extradition.
By State Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 52-year-old illegal alien who resided in Corpus Christi been sentenced to federal prison for possessing more than 10 thousand child pornography images, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Baldemar Cardenas-Martinez pleaded guilty May 20, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: McLean, Va. - The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking public input on initial concepts for the future use and enjoyment of the Claude Moore farm area of Turkey Run Park. Three concepts were developed with input from the first public comment period conducted in spring 2019, when the public was invited to share their vision for the park’s future. The NPS invites the public to share comments on these concepts at an upcoming open house, online or by mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Maryland Man Pleads Guilty to Fraudulent Scheme to Solicit Millions of Dollars in Contributions to Scam-Pacs.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a hearing titled, “Perspectives on the Livestock and Poultry Sectors."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Jason Gatlin, 42, of Miami, was convicted on all three counts of the superseding indictment, including Sex Trafficking of Minor, Production of Child Pornography, and Witness Tampering, by a federal jury on Sept. 16, 2019, following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith in Ft. Lauderdale.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building on supply chain security and spectrum. The hearing is entitled “Legislating to Secure America’s Wireless Future."
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation that will allow New Jersey to utilize Clean Water State Revolving Funds to remove and replace the lead pipes contaminating Newark’s drinking water...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man pleaded guilty today to sending a series of violent and threatening e‑mails to a Massachusetts professor and a university.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: MACON - The former owner of Mr. Tax, Etc., a tax preparation business, admitted to manipulating and falsifying client information on filed tax returns in federal court on Thursday, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Willie Moore, Jr., 48...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: HONOLULU - Federal charges against 15 defendants and the seizure of thousands of dollar’s worth of property and funds were announced today by U.S Attorney for the District of Hawaii Kenji M. Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man pleaded guilty today to sending a series of violent and threatening e‑mails to a Massachusetts professor and a university.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man was sentenced today to 13 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 23-year-old Corpus Christi man has been ordered to federal prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking offense, announced DEA Houston Division Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. A federal jury convicted Roman Valdez following a two-day trial and approximately one hour of deliberations on May 21, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 23-year-old Corpus Christi man has been ordered to federal prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking offense, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. A federal jury convicted Roman Valdez following a two-day trial and approximately one hour of deliberations May 21, 2019.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sat down with several Senate Democrats to hear from some of the young men and women leading the climate movement, including Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old climate activist from Sweden and leader of Fridays for Future.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Anthony Navarro-Velez, age 34, of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on September 9, 2019, to 121 months’ imprisonment by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, for his role in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin.
