News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Albert Vincent Hicks, 48, of Jacksonville, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for distributing heroin. Hicks pleaded guilty on Aug. 21, 2019.
By Commerce 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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio, a 34-year-old Schertz, TX, resident waived his arraignment, thus pleading not guilty to charge involving kidnapping and child exploitation, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of a Chelmsford paving company was charged today with a payroll tax scheme resulting in a $300,000 tax loss.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Two Texas men have been sentenced to federal prison for drug and gun violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
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 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 $20.05 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants to 27 airports in Kansas. This investment in Kansas’ 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: Michael Grimes, a former high-level official in the UAW’s General Motors Department, was sentenced to 28 months in federal prison today for conspiring with other UAW officials to engage in honest services fraud by taking over $1.5 million in bribes and kickbacks from UAW vendors and contractors and for conspiring to launder the proceeds of the scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Concord, NH - Fugitive New Hampshire parolee and this week’s “Fugitive of the Week," Kevin William Paul, 41, was arrested without incident this afternoon by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force in Copperas Cove, TX.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Salvatore Lippa II, 57, of Greece, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with threating to assault and murder a federal official on account of the performance of their official duties, and interstate communication of a threat. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of State College, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to time-served on his conviction for conspiracy to distribute heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today. The defendant had been detained pretrial on this charge since June of 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
Release: GRAND ISLAND, NE - A Keith County, Nebraska, man was stopped by the Transportation Security Administration with a 9 mm gun loaded with 17 bullets, including one in the chamber at the Central Nebraska Regional Airport security checkpoint yesterday (Feb. 18).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Attorney’s Office will deploy personnel to monitor Los Angeles County vote centers for their compliance with federal accessibility law for people with physical disabilities during the February 22-to-March 3 election period.
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 $7.43 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants to two airports in Missouri. This investment in Missouri’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 18, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today expanded its massive multimedia advertising campaign across the nation. The campaign is designed to reach over99 percent of the nation’s 140 million households with messaging about the upcoming 2020 Census and the importance of responding. Invitations to respond will arrive...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man, Tevye Jones, 21, was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday to 30 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, for possessing a firearm as convicted felon and possession of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A North Carolina man who took part in a conspiracy to steal design information from aircraft companies to speed up approval of competing airplane technology has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Eight Corpus Christi residents have been sentenced to serve between six and more than 21 years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute synthetic cannabinoids. The most recent sentence was handed down Tuesday.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C, Feb. 18, 2020) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue will host agricultural leaders from key Western Hemisphere countries at USDA’s 96th Agricultural Outlook Forum February 20-21 in Arlington, Virginia.
