News from September 2019
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management will welcome volunteers to help improve two high desert campgrounds in northwest Nevada, in a National Public Lands Day observance, Saturday, Sept. 28.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A federal jury has convicted a 49-year-old legal permanent resident from Donna for knowingly and intentionally conspiring to unlawfully transporting undocumented illegal aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. The jury deliberated for approximately one hour before convicting Federico Espinosa-Flores following a two-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Paid Kickback to Employee of the Utility Company’s Contractor for Referrals.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service in partnership with the students and staff of Heritage Hills Middle School will observe National Public Lands Day at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm Central time. The event will highlight volunteerism and the good fun and good health of outdoor exercise. Dr. Stanley Tretter, Chief Medical Officer of Memorial Hospital and Officer of Spencer County Health will be our special guest.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, AL. - On Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, Cleddie Ferlisi Stone, 41, of Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to 72 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Somerset, Ky., man was found guilty yesterday, by a federal jury sitting in London, of conspiring with co-conspirator Jason T. Castenir to run a complex and long-running Ponzi scheme. During the scheme, they defrauded dozens of victims out of over $2.2 million, through three fake investments.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was arrested yesterday in Miami on a federal warrant for aggravated identity theft and immigration fraud charges filed in federal court in Boston in May 2019, as well as a federal warrant from 1997 in a drug trafficking case.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham announced that Terrell Givens, 34, of Beacon Falls, Conn., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 55 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his involvement in a large-scale marijuana trafficking conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - To combat the growing public health threat posed by use of e-cigarettes among young people, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and 18 colleagues today introduced legislation to tax e-cigarettes the same as other tobacco products.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Daniel Laterowicz, 32, of Ipswich, was sentenced in federal court to 60 months in prison for possession of stolen firearms, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Daniel Laterowicz, 32, of Ipswich, was sentenced in federal court to 60 months in prison for possession of stolen firearms, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Andrew Harris (58, Jacksonville) to 10 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin, the weight of cocaine being at least five kilograms.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Port Vue, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of 15 years (180 months), to be followed by 10 years of supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: WHEN: Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. TIME: 2:00 p.m. EST. PURPOSE & BACKGROUND. The hearing will examine air and water pollution in Michigan, with a specific focus on Detroit and Flint, and on the disparate impacts of pollution on low-income communities and communities of color. The hearing will explore...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Ganseveld caught with eight baggies of meth, and a handgun.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Dear Chairman Inhofe and Ranking Member Reed...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Katie Fysh, 33, of Groveton, was sentenced to 87 months in prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Adriano Roberto Nunez, 27, of Queens, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating or interfering with a federal officer and causing bodily injury. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is proposing to reduce the amount of five Schedule II opioid controlled substances that can be manufactured in the United States next year compared with 2019, per the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking being published in the Federal Register tomorrow and available for public inspection here today.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as delivered, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) during today’s hearing titled “Pricing and Technology Strategies to Address Congestion on and Financing of America’s Roads."
