News from February 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after convening a call with public health officials and hospitals from across the state on preventing the spread of Coronavirus in Michigan...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former Vice President of Investor Relations for PixarBio Corp., a Boston-based biotech company, was sentenced yesterday on securities fraud charges in connection with a scheme to manipulate trading in the company’s shares and obstruction of proceedings before the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Denis Barrera-Palma, 25, of Mendota, pleaded guilty today to assault with a deadly weapon in aid of racketeering and conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today in support of H.R. 2339, the Protecting American Lungs and Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2020...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced a Notice of Sale of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Hyde Park man was charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Three Tampa Bay-area men entered guilty pleas yesterday to defrauding.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Denis Barrera-Palma, 25, of Mendota, pleaded guilty today to assault with a deadly weapon in aid of racketeering and conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two defendants accused of running a large-scale cross-country drug trafficking organization have pleaded guilty to federal narcotics and firearm charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Anthony Davis Stagnitta (23, St. Petersburg) to eight years and four months in federal prison for distributing child sex abuse videos over the internet. Stagnitta was also ordered to pay $132,415 in restitution to victims and to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Sedro Wooley residents sold heroin in Upper Skagit Tribal community.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation executed congressionally-mandated contract conversions today with Central Valley Project contractors pursuant to the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act. These contracts provide water to families, farms and communities in the respective California contractors’ service areas. Today’s contract conversions are the first group of more than 75 repayment contract conversions requested by CVP contractors.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two defendants accused of running a large-scale cross-country drug trafficking organization have pleaded guilty to federal narcotics and firearm charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the notice of apparent liability for four carriers who failed to protect consumers’ real-time location data...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Homeland Security will hold a public witness hearing on March 25, 2020, at 9:00 a.m. for those who wish to provide input for the FY2021 Appropriations bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Drew H. Wrigley announced that Federal Court documents were unsealed on Feb. 10, 2020, revealing that the federal grand jury has indicted 1) Kolawole Bamidele Akande, a/k/a Patric Elis Ferguson 2) Olawale Sule a/k/a Brand King Mohamed; and 3) Babatope Joseph Aderinoye a/k/a...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Brothers Victor Smith, 43, and Michael Smith, 42, of Hattiesburg, were found guilty on Wednesday of possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute and possession of stolen firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division Raymond Donovan, announced that Daniel Paul, 65, of Buffalo, New York, who was convicted of distribution of crack cocaine, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison and six years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Each year to protect raptor nesting sites, Rocky Mountain National Park officials initiate temporary closures in the Lumpy Ridge area of the park. To ensure that these birds of prey can nest undisturbed, specific areas within the park are closed temporarily to public use during nesting season and monitored...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: COOLIDGE, AZ - On March 11, 2020 Casa Grande Ruins will host Laura Tohe as part of its annual speaker series. The presentation will begin at noon on March 11 featuring Laura Tohe who will present a lecture titled "More than Pocahontas and Squaws: Indigenous Women Coming into Visibility". This is the final presentation of the 2020 Casa Grande Ruins National Monument Speaker Series.
