News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Evon Stephens was sentenced by United States District Judge I. Leo Glasser to five years’ imprisonment following his guilty plea to setting fire to a vehicle in the parking garage attached to the Kings Plaza Shopping Center on Sept. 17, 2018. The amount of restitution will be determined by the Court at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TERRANCE CLARK, also known as “T-Time," 24, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 90 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for firearm offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
Release: Congressman David Price (D-NC), Chair of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's oversight hearing on FAA aviation certification.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of ERIC WILLOR, 70, to two years in federal prison. WILLOR pleaded guilty on May 21, 2019, to one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return. WILLOR was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge Eric C. Tostrud in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A professional drummer who has served as a musical director for the United Nations and “The Arsenio Hall Show" television program pleaded guilty today to one count of wire fraud for embezzling $750,000 from a charity concert for homeless children and using the stolen money to pay alimony to his ex-wife and buy cars for his mother and son.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the U.S.-Japan trade deal...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Kristen Hodgkins, 30, of Rochester, was sentenced in to serve 84 months in federal prison for participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Boston, MA - After a four week operation, dubbed “Operation Washout," 30 individuals, including multiple alleged gang members wanted for violent crimes, have been arrested in and around the City of Holyoke.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced today an expansive health care fraud enforcement operation across the Gulf Coast, involving charges against a total of 11 individuals across four federal districts for their alleged involvement...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - On the same day that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC), Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) led a markup on ocean-related climate change legislation. Among the 10 bills approved today...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Dina Titus (D-NV) during today’s hearing titled: “Landlord and Tenant: The Trump Administration’s Oversight of the Trump International Hotel Lease."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District, announced that a federal grand jury in the district returned an indictment charging Latoya Joseph with three counts of tax evasion, in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7201.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released the statutory text of the Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act (PDPRA), S. 2543. The text mirrors the chairman’s mark that passed the Finance Committee in July with a bipartisan, two-thirds majority.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two individuals have been charged in separate, but related, indictments relating to the September 22-23, 2019 overdose deaths of three people and non-fatal overdoses of five people that occurred in Pittsburgh and West Mifflin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Kristen Hodgkins, 30, of Rochester, was sentenced to serve 84 months in federal prison for participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, OH - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) Central Ohio Chapter, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Locals #683 and #1105, have established a strategic partnership to promote employee safety and health at Central Ohio work sites.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was arrested on Monday, Sept. 23, 2019, on charges of tax evasion and failing to file tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced Romeo Valentin Sanchez (32, Cape Coral) to life in federal prison for producing child pornography, enticing a minor to engage in sexual conduct, and possessing child pornography. The court also ordered Sanchez to forfeit two cellphones that he had used to receive and store the images.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Lourdes Suero, 46, of Biddeford, Maine, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Torresen to five months in prison and three years of supervised release for using a facility of interstate commerce to promote prostitution. After completing her prison sentence, Suero must serve up to five months of home confinement as a condition of supervised release. She pleaded guilty on March 18, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A Texas state district judge has been ordered to federal prison following his multiple convictions of conspiracy, bribery and obstructing justice, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick and Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
