News from February 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley pushed his plan to lower prescription drug prices to health-care professionals in Coralville on Friday, saying he expects the bipartisan bill to pass by May 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Defendant directed his girlfriend to make sexually explicit images of a child left in her care and collected child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Cities of Natchez and Biloxi Each Awarded $149,900 to Improve Technology to Fight Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that yesterday in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced JONATHAN ANTWAN MITCHELL, 34, of Henderson, North Carolina to 312 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Tacoma - A 58-year-old Tacoma resident was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 15 years in prison for conspiracy to produce child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. MICHAEL KELLAR, and his girlfriend, Gail Lynn Burnworth, 52, were arrested in August 2017, after an alert...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A registered sex offender living in western Kansas was sentenced Thursday to 292 months in federal prison on child pornography charges, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: A Tulsa man was charged this week in U.S. District Court with defrauding five federally insured financial institutions and two investor families of more than $5 million dollars, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - The National Park Service seeks public comment on a proposal to replace the Yellowstone River Bridge in Yellowstone National Park. The bridge is located on the Northeast Entrance Road near Tower Junction.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Robert Lyle Buckhannon, 59, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff to serve 24 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud a California mortgage lender in connection with a...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass. - Cape Cod National Seashore’s Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Trail will be repaired this spring. A collaborative improvement project between Cape Cod National Seashore and Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore is now underway. The Friends raised $75,000 for the work that is being matched by a National Park Service Centennial Challenge Grant.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Mariah Ferry, 21, and Jose Torrez, 47, of Albuquerque pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque today to charges of kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap for participating in the abduction and brutal assault of two victims suspected of stealing drugs and money from the home of co-defendant, Chase Smothermon, 32, of Albuquerque.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Darren Martin was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine and fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: A contracting officer with the U.S. Department of State was sentenced today to 87 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release after he was convicted of 13 counts of conspiracy, bribery, honest services wire fraud and making false statements.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Myles Hannigan, 48, of Newtown Square, PA was sentenced to 52 months’ incarceration, one year supervised release, and ordered to pay $3,270,566 in restitution by United States District Judge Chad F. Kenney for filing false tax information...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Ángel Miguel Rivera-Quiñones, 74, from Ponce, Puerto Rico, was arrested for production of child pornography, coercion and enticement of a minor, and receipt of child pornography, following an investigation by the FBI, the Police of Puerto Rico, and the Department of Justice for the Region of Ponce, announced United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, W. Stephen Muldrow.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Investigators Seek Public Assistance in 20-Year Missing Girl Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Former Generic Pharmaceutical Executive Pleads Guilty for Role in Criminal Antitrust Conspiracy.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Feb. 14, 2020 - Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Illinois State Director Douglas Wilson announced USDA is investing $3.4 million to create or improve rural e-Connectivity for 603 rural households, 12 farms and a business in Hamilton County. This high-speed broadband infrastructure project is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on Feb. 26 at 10:00 a.m. in Longworth 1324 on two bills introduced by Committee members designed to address climate change.
