News from February 2020
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award $585,000 in airport safety and infrastructure grants to two airports in Alabama. This investment in Alabama’s airports is part of a $520.5 million national investment in America’s airports that was announced today by Secretary Chao.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award $5.6 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants to Portland International Jetport in Maine to fund taxiway construction and rehabilitation. This investment in Portland International Jetport is part of a $520.5 million national investment in America’s airports that was announced today by Secretary Chao.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Texas Businessman Sentenced to 70 Months in Prison for Role in Venezuela Bribery Scheme and Obstruction of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man Wearing Glasses, Windbreaker Robs Albuquerque Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Columbus man offered his guilty plea in U.S. District Court today to four crimes related to the sexual exploitation of minors. The man chatted with minor females located throughout the country on Instagram, Snapchat and other social media sites and requested that the girls send him videos of themselves engaged in sexual acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that his Office has launched a review of all polling places in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to determine if they are in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. The initiative is in accordance with the federal...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award $5 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants to Virginia Highlands Airport in Abingdon to fund a runway extension. This investment in Virginia Highlands Airport is part of a $520.5 million national investment in America’s airports that was announced today by Secretary Chao.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston woman was sentenced to federal prison for a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Sheila Daun Jarrett, 43, was sentenced to 72 months in prison and five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a man to El Salvador on Monday, Feb. 17, after his conviction in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for illegal reentry after removal. He was wanted by law enforcement officials in El Salvador for extortion and is a documented member of the transnational criminal street gang known as 18th Street.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Turlock residents Joseph Wayne Attaway, 33, and Edmond Hormozi, 51, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd for methamphetamine trafficking, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Mark Komoroski, age 57, of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Feb. 14, 2020, to seven months’ imprisonment to be followed by two years’ supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for violating federal export laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced MS-13 gang members, Francisco Ramirez Pena, a/k/a Tepo and Advertencia, age 25, of Edgewater, Maryland, and Edwin Ruiz Urrutia, a/k/a Sylvestre, age 21, of Silver Spring, Maryland, to 25 years each in federal prison, followed by...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award $6.2 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants to three airports in Oregon. This investment in Oregon’s airports is part of a $520.5 million national investment in America’s airports that was announced today by Secretary Chao.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) about the use of eminent domain in the construction of natural gas pipelines. FERC routinely grants pipeline companies a “certificate of public convenience and necessity," allowing them to take possession of private land under the right of eminent domain.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Davon Payton, 29, of Alexandria Virginia, was sentenced today in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by the Honorable Craig Iscoe to a period of twenty- four years of incarceration followed by five years of supervised release. Payton pled guilty on Nov. 22, 2019, to two counts...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Clinton DeWitt Bays, Jr., 78, of Boise, was sentenced to 96 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Bays to serve five years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Bays pleaded guilty on Oct. 28, 2019.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award $7.2 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants to 10 airports in Wyoming. This investment in Wyoming’s airports is part of a $520.5 million national investment in America’s airports that was announced today by Secretary Chao.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today that Guardian Elder Care Holdings, Inc. and its related companies will pay $15,466,278 to settle claims that the skilled nursing home chain provided medically unnecessary rehabilitation therapy to residents in order to meet revenue goals...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Luc Emond, age 60, of Montreal, Canada, was sentenced today to 10 months in prison, and to pay a $3,000 fine, for attempting to smuggle pistol kits into Canada. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Kevin Kelly, Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By USDA Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE SCHEDULE. Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020 - 10:00AM. 1300 Longworth House Office Building. Washington, D.C. Conservation and Forestry Subcommittee Hearing. RE: “Innovative Wood Products: Promoting Rural Economies and Healthy Forests".
