News from September 2019
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Department will award $157 million in airport infrastructure grants to 34 airports in 19 states, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands. This is the sixth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: SAN JOSE - Reyes Daniel Ruiz pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose today to hacking into the accounts of thousands of Yahoo users in search of private and personal records, primarily sexual images and videos of the account holders, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio today, Senior U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra sentenced Reynaldo Salinas of San Antonio to 15 years in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release for attempting to coerce a minor into engaging in sexually explicit conduct, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald “DJ" LaVoy today announced that USDA is investing $139 million in 56 projects (PDF, 189 KB) to improve community facilities and provide essential services for 3.3 million rural residents in 23 states.
By State Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: Washington-Today, Rep. Adam Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter conveying a subpoena to Rudy Giuliani, the President’s agent, for key documents as a part of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: NEWCASTLE, Wyo. - Due to subsiding fire danger, the Bureau of Land Management is removing the fire restrictions for Niobrara, and Weston Counties on Oct. 1, 2019. This decision was reached in coordination with our county partners. Partnerships and inclusion are vital to managing sustainable, working public lands managed by the BLM.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that a grand jury in the Southern District of New York has returned an indictment charging JON BARRY THOMPSON, a/k/a “J. Barry Thompson," the principal of the cryptocurrency escrow company Volantis Escrow...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at McDowell pled guilty to a weapon offense, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Devin Dantzler, 24, pled guilty to being an inmate in possession of a weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced TAVEON NIXON, 21, of Wilmington, North Carolina to 120 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Department will award $157 million in airport infrastructure grants to 34 airports in 19 states, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands. This is the sixth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A New York man was sentenced here in U.S. District Court to 36 months in prison and fined $30,000 for conspiring to illegally purchase firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Black Rock Field Office will begin a wild horse and burro gather on or about October 7, 2019 on the Granite Range and Buffalo Hills Herd Management Areas (HMA) located near Gerlach, Nevada. The purpose of the gather is to prevent degradation of the public lands associated...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: New Orleans Man Charged with Two Bank Robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: MIAMI - A Cuban citizen and high-ranking official in the Cuban government living in Miami, Florida, was sentenced on Sept. 27, 2019, to six months in prison for making false statements in his application for lawful permanent residence and for theft of government funds. The Court also ordered the defendant to be deported to Cuba immediately upon completion of his sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A long-time con artist was sentenced today to 240 months in federal prison for running a multimillion-dollar real estate scam that conned elderly people out of their homes, gouging them with fraudulent threats of litigation and extorting monthly payments for illegal foreclosure and eviction delay.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - SAGE ATHEAKEE GOMEZ, 23, a member of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, has been sentenced to five years in prison for involuntary manslaughter, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced that David Vela will serve as the deputy director for operations and will also exercise the delegated authority of the director of the National Park Service (NPS) beginning Oct. 1, 2019.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Department will award $157 million in airport infrastructure grants to 34 airports in 19 states, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands. This is the sixth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
Release: CONCORD, NH - New Hampshire residents who want to board an airplane have one year before they will need a star on their driver’s license, indicating that it is a REAL ID credential or they will need another form of approved identification to board their domestic flight or enter a secure federal facility...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARIANO IRIZARRY, 35, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and one count of distributing a controlled substance while on pretrial release.
