News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Raymond P. Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), announced today that the Dominican Republic’s former Consul General to Jamaica, JEREMIAS...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Diana Davis, 32, of Rochester, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 54 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack." Davis pleaded guilty on Oct. 24, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Defendant Brought Guns from Florida and Distributed Them to MS-13 Members in Maryland; Participated in a Shooting; and Sold Cocaine for the Benefit of the Gang.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, announced that the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which is led by Chairman Jamie Raskin, will hold an emergency hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, on the Trump Administration’s decision to end consideration of requests to defer deportation, including for children with critical illnesses.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement following House passage of four bipartisan energy bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Antoni Peralta, 33, of Anchorage, was found guilty on Friday, Sept. 6, 2019, after a three-day federal jury trial. The jury found Peralta guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm and associated ammunition in connection with the December 2016 gunfight on Donna Road in Anchorage.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) released the following statement today on the passage of H.R. 1768, the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2019...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News woman pleaded guilty today to possessing a firearm while distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Barry E. Sanders,63, the former owner and CEO of Trailblazers, Inc., an auto and truck parts supply business formerly located in Lexington, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Monday to violating U.S. bankruptcy laws.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement following House passage of four bipartisan energy bills...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and other leading Democrats will speak at a press conference with Alaska Native and conservation advocates at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning outside the U.S. Capitol on the need to pass Rep. Huffman’s Arctic Cultural and...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL) released the following statement today after the House passed three energy bills to improve energy efficiency and security...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: DURANGO, COLO. - The Bureau of Reclamation invites members of the press and public to a meeting to continue negotiations with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority. The purpose of these negotiations is to agree to terms for an operations, maintenance and replacement contract for the federally-owned Cutter Lateral features of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, located near Bloomfield, New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Eric Todd was convicted by jury in federal court in May.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - Yiheng Percival Zhang, a former Virginia Tech professor studying artificial sweeteners, was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court to time served, which included incarceration for approximately three months, and home incarceration for approximately two years, First Assistant United...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Centerville woman was indicted in federal court on five counts of wire fraud and five counts of filing false federal tax returns, stemming from her embezzlement of more than $1 million from a bookkeeping client.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge John E. Steele today sentenced Aaron Eyerman (38, Cape Coral), a former southwest Florida real estate broker to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison wire fraud, money laundering, and false oath in relation to a bankruptcy proceeding. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment of $562,407.38, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Two men face up to life in prison following their convictions of drug crimes, carjacking, robbery and firearms offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. The McAllen jury deliberated for five hours before convicting Mexican citizen Marin Macrin Cerda aka Filtro, 33, and Jose Miguel Montemayor aka aEl Mickey, 29, of Mission, late Friday. Sept. 6, 2019, following a seven-day trial.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: STRONG CITY, Kansas: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is pleased to announce the upcoming annual Prairie Harvest Festival on September 21st, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK -Augustine Sneh, age 31, a Liberian citizen living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to time served (11 months in jail), after being convicted at trial of making a false statement and making a false claim of United States citizenship.
