News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division joined U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Southern District of Mississippi, U.S. Attorney Chad Lamar, Northern District of Mississippi, Commissioner Marshall Fisher, Mississippi Department of Public Safety, and Philip Gunn, Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, today to announce the creation and launch of a new, statewide Mississippi Human Trafficking Council.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: NORTH BEND, Ore. - The arrival of cooler temperatures and rain this week has prompted the Coos Bay District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to decrease public use restrictions on lands managed by the agency on the southern Oregon coast. As of Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, campfires are allowed...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID MIDDENDORF, the former head of KPMG’s National Office, also known as the Department of Professional Practice (the “DPP"), was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for participating...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Six individuals have pleaded guilty to participation in a multimillion-dollar conspiracy that used stolen credit card account information to make fraudulent retail purchases, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: FBI Offers Reward of up to $5,000 for Information Leading to the Arrest of a Federal Fugitive.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Antony Eugene Woody (31, Orange Park) has been arrested and charged by federal criminal complaint with advertising child pornography for sale using the internet. If convicted, he faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, and up to 30 years, in federal prison. Woody is currently detained pending a detention hearing scheduled for Sept. 13, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Logan, Ohio man was sentenced to prison for a federal sex offense, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Donald E. Ward, 59, was sentenced to 36 months in prison for traveling in interstate commerce in order to engage in illicit sexual activity with a minor. Following his release from prison, Ward will serve a term of five years of supervised release after completing his prison sentence and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton man today admitted his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy that allegedly distributed more than one kilogram of heroin in Trenton and the surrounding area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A man identified as a member of the Heath Street Gang was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with distributing crack cocaine in a public housing development.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Rohan Brown (41, Sanford) to four years and three months in federal prison for mail fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identify theft related to his participation in two fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Gilroy D. Elcock, 47, of St. Croix, was sentenced Tuesday for six counts of production of child pornography, two counts of aggravated rape first degree, and one count of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. (Sept.11, 2019)- Rep. Harley Rouda, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment, held a hearing on “The Devil They Knew: PFAS Contamination and the Need for Corporate Accountability, Part III."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Detroit, Michigan, man was sentenced to federal prison for a federal drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Eddie Riago-Javone Bryant, 27, was sentenced to 43 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Adalberto Chavez-Chavez, 36, of Artesia, N.M., was sentenced in federal court in Las Cruces yesterday to 10 years (120 months) in prison for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Columbus, Ohio, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of holding a counterfeit drug for sale or dispensing, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, issued the following statement after the Trump Administration announced it will ban flavors used in e-cigarettes...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement that it would soon act to remove flavored vaping products from the market...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
Release: OMAHA --A temporary TSA Pre✓® application center will be open at Eppley Airfield (OMA) from Monday, Sept. 30 to Friday, Oct. 4. The application center will be located in the Conference Center within the terminal at OMA. Passengers do not need to have an airline ticket to access the center.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - A Charleston man pled guilty to a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Rahem Lipford, 36, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Dunbar, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of interstate threats, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
