News from September 2019
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA) today released a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report outlining the cybersecurity...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that Wallace Byers, age 59, of Miami, Florida, pled guilty to three counts of wire fraud before U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson. As a result of his conviction, Byers faces a significant term of imprisonment, a fine, and a period of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing entitled “Sounding the Alarm: The Public Health Threats of E-Cigarettes:"
By USDA Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
Release: Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has prepared and is accepting comments on a pest risk analysis regarding the importation of fresh sand pear fruit from Japan into the United States. After thorough analysis, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of DAMIEN JAMES McDONALD, 41, to 110 months in prison. McDONALD pleaded guilty on March 8, 2019, to two counts of armed bank robbery. He was sentenced earlier today by U.S. District Court Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) released the following statements regarding Earthjustice formally filing with the Department of Justice as a foreign agent. Last year, Committee Republicans began its oversight of the potential manipulation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Omaha, Nebraska, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By State Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. Cipollone: On September 9, 2019, the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oversight and Reform wrote to you requesting documents relating to reports that President Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, pressed the Ukrainian government to interfere with the upcoming U.S.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md. - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday to unveil a new laboratory building that substantially enhances NIST’s capabilities for radiation measurements critical to the health care, food processing, national security and other industries.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: A Columbia, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to his role in making preparations to launch a terrorist attack with persons he believed were members of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), but who were actually undercover law enforcement employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: The Justice Department announced today the second coordinated law enforcement action of the Appalachian Region Prescription Opioid (ARPO) strike force, resulting in charges against 13 individuals across five Appalachian federal districts for alleged offenses relating to the over prescription of controlled ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice announced its Interim Policy on forensic genetic genealogy (FGG), an emerging investigative technique that will combine technological advancements in DNA analysis and searching with traditional genealogy research. FGG is a unique investigative method that can generate leads used by law enforcement to not only identify unknown suspects but to help identify the remains of homicide victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: A senior manager of diesel drivability and emissions at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) was charged in an indictment unsealed today for his alleged role in a conspiracy to mislead U.S. regulators, customers and the public by making false and misleading statements about the emissions control software used in more than 100,000 FCA diesel vehicles in order to increase the vehicles’ emissions when they were not running on federal emissions test cycles.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Alma Barlow and Denver Barlow, formerly of Hildale, Utah, were sentenced in federal court today to 24 months in prison each for conspiracy to file false claims, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney John W. Huber for the District of Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: A former U.S. Army Reserve employee was sentenced today to 18 months’ imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release on charges of wire fraud and theft of government money as part of a scheme to steal more than $400,000 from the 63rd Regional Support Command at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Igor Yurkovetsky pleaded guilty today in connection with an ongoing investigation into a conspiracy to rig bids submitted to the General Services Administration (GSA), the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: A Tulsa resident pleaded guilty today to making a false statement in a bankruptcy proceeding, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney R. Trent Shores for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Assistant Attorney General of National Security John C. Demers and United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald for the District of Minnesota today announced the sentencing of Negar Ghodskani, 40, to 27 months in prison for her participation in a conspiracy to facilitate the illegal export of controlled ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: A former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer, who pleaded guilty in March to attempting to communicate, deliver, or transmit information involving the national defense of the United States to the People’s Republic of China, will serve 10 years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Dee Benson imposed the sentence Tuesday afternoon in Salt Lake City.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division met with Vice-President Hugo Velazquez, Minister of the Anti-Money Laundering Secretariat Carlos Arregui, and Minister of Intelligence Esteban Aquino of Paraguay in Washington, DC.
