News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Michael Dean McCullar, 47, of Dwight, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard to 360 months’ imprisonment for production of child pornography and 140 months for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Tyler C. Amon, Special Agent in Charge of EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division in New England, announced that COLLEGIATE ENTREPRENEURS, INC., a Massachusetts-based house painting company, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford for violating the Toxic Substances Control Act and subsequently falsifying records.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Jemez Springs, NM -The main entrance road into Valles Caldera National Preserve will be closed to vehicle traffic beginning Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020 until further notice. Warm afternoon temperatures have led to steady snowmelt and heavy saturation of the dirt road, resulting in unsafe driving conditions...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Dr. Spiro Y. Kassis, 66, of Plymouth Township, PA was sentenced to 48 months’ incarceration, two years’ supervised release and a $25,000 fine by United States District Judge Gene E. K. Pratter after pleading guilty to 14 counts of...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: The unusual weather event that occurred between February 4-6, 2020, left roughly seven inches of rain on Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area, and the park’s four stream gauges were working hard to record the flow resulting from the precipitation.
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 $4.6 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants to five airports in Connecticut. This investment in Connecticut’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: Tampa, Florida - Charles R. Resnick (69, Charlotte, NC, formerly from Florida) has pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false income tax return. He faces a maximum penalty of three years in federal prison. Resnick also agreed to make restitution to the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (“CASIS"). A sentencing date has not yet been set.
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 $1 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants to Laurence G. Hanscom Field in Massachusetts to fund rehabilitation of an aircraft parking apron, and reconstruction ...
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 a $13,765,958 million airport safety and infrastructure grant to Los Angeles International Airport in California to fund installation of perimeter fencing. This investment in Los Angeles International 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: PITTSBURGH - United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today that a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh has returned five separate, but related, indictments charging five Western Pennsylvania residents with drug and/or gun charges relating to an investigation into a group of drug traffickers identifying...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Bradbury man has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges that he falsely promised profits to more than 70,000 victim investors worldwide in a scheme where a multinational company issued a sham digital currency purportedly asset-backed by billions of dollars’ worth of amber and other precious gemstones.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Demarco Tempo, the architect of a heroin, crack cocaine, and fentanyl dealing operation that went by the name “Polo" and was described by several former customers as a “McDonald’s for drugs," was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for drug distributions resulting in several overdoses and the death of at least one victim, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider. Tempo was the last of thirteen convicted defendants in this conspiracy to be sentenced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing on “U.S.-China Trade and Competition" on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020 at 10:30 AM in room 1100 Longworth House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - Raul Trejo, 54, of Middletown, was sentenced to 168 months in prison for laundering money as part of a Middletown drug conspiracy tied to the Sinaloa Drug Cartel in Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Alexis Laguerra, Raymond Soto, Jr. and Raymond Soto, Sr. were sentenced by United States District Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein to 30 months, 33 months and 18 months in prison, respectively, for bank larceny in connection with the theft of over...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) praised the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler on their recent announcements: $2.7 billion for infrastructure projects and $40 million to reduce lead in drinking water.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Saugus woman was indicted yesterday in connection with a scheme to defraud her elderly uncle of his life’s savings.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced that next week’s Health Subcommittee hearing will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 1:30 pm in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2021 HHS Budget and Oversight of the Coronavirus Outbreak."
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone National Park has initiated a major, multimillion-dollar housing improvement effort that will substantially upgrade National Park Service employee housing across the park.
