News from September 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Rep. Adam Schiff, the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s attacks on the intelligence community whistleblower and other witnesses...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Felon Enticed 14-Year-Old Girl to Engage in Prostitution and Send Him Sexually Explicit Images of Herself.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain joined fellow Justice Department officials today at a press conference to announce a coordinated health care fraud enforcement action across seven federal districts involving more than $800 million in loss and the distribution of over 3.25 million...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Worcester to possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Earl T. Cook, Jr., age 55, of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Sept. 25, 2019, by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones III, to five years’ imprisonment followed by five years’ on supervised release, for receipt of child pornography. Judge Jones also ordered Cook to pay an assessment of $5,000 under the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: The latest Artist in Residence at Fort Union, Melissa Weinman, is a member of Oil Painters of America, and presently teaching in her studio in Ruston, Washington. After receiving many degrees in art from Maine to southern California, she has 17 years of college teaching. Weinman also has an extensive list of group and solo art shows dating back to 1983.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Westfield man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Springfield to child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks during a Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet hearing on access to the courts...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested more than 80 during a 5-day period, ending Sep. 25, in New York City, the Hudson Valley and Long Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Daniel Brown, age 29, of Bullhead, South Dakota, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter as a result of a federal jury trial in Aberdeen, South Dakota. United States District Judge Charles B. Kornmann presided over the trial proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 65-year-old Lubrizol Corporation employee has been taken into custody following the return of a 10-count indictment for wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Brian A. Benczkowski, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office; and Derrick L. Jackson, Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Authorities this morning arrested five defendants charged in a federal grand jury indictment alleging they took part in a drug trafficking ring that imported pound quantities of cocaine and heroin from Mexico, then used modified BMW “trap cars" to distribute those drugs throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Billy J. Williams, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, announced today that a second Hoover Criminal Gang member has been indicted for the 2015 murder of Portland resident Kyle Polk.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) announced the appointment of Robert Guadian as the Senior Executive Service (SES) field office director (FOD) in the Chicago field office, which oversees 13 offices throughout six states: Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas and Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man employed as a regional manager for a contractor involved with construction projects at Picatinny Arsenal (PICA) and at Joint Base McGuire-Dix- Lakehurst (Ft. Dix) was sentenced today to 28 months in prison for his role in a fraud scheme that caused losses of $1.4 million, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Nye’s Pharmacy, of Conway, has agreed to pay the United States $185,000 to resolve allegations that it failed to abide by recordkeeping requirements of the Controlled Substances Act and filled prescriptions without confirming that they served a legitimate medical purpose. The settlement also requires Nye’s to comply with heightened reporting requirements for a two year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Sept. 25, 2019, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 50 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Aviation Subcommittee Rick Larsen (D-WA) responded to the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) safety recommendations related to the ongoing investigations into Lion Air flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Robert Patrick Jensen, 49, and Michael T. Harris, 44, both of Gulf Breeze,.
