News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A white supremacist and former member of the Atomwaffen Division was sentenced today to one year in prison for possessing firearms while being an unlawful drug user and making a false statement in order to illegally purchase a firearm.
By EPA 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: NEW YORK - A 25-year-old illegally present Dominican national previously charged with participating in a $7M fentanyl ring was arrested Feb. 27 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) after being released from custody without bail, as a result of New York State’s recently enacted Bail Reform Act.
By EPA 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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of HURIAH KAREEM BLEDSOE, 40, to 120 months in prison for illegally possessing five firearms and quantities of marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin. BLEDSOE, who pleaded guilty on Oct. 15, 2019, was sentenced today before Judge Susan Richard Nelson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement of congratulations to the Tunisian people on the formation of their new government:
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 28, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced additional disaster assistance available to agricultural producers, including producers impacted by drought and excess moisture as well as sugar beet growers. Through WHIP+, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is helping producers recover from losses related to 2018 and 2019 natural disasters.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KURTIS GASKINS, 46, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: A Massachusetts-based accountant who was charged along with three others in connection with a decades-long criminal scheme perpetrated by Mossack Fonseca & Co. (Mossack Fonseca), a Panamanian-based global law firm, and its related entities, pleaded guilty today to wire and tax fraud, money laundering, aggravated identity theft and other charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Felon in Possession of a Firearm was sentenced on Feb. 24, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis U.S., LLC (“Sanofi"), has agreed to pay $11.85 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to Medicare patients through a purportedly independent charitable foundation, The Assistance Fund (“TAF").
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
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: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dennis Morgan, age 73, of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Feb. 27, 2020 by a federal grand jury on three violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Scranton, PA - Today, U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Janssen Kenner - a 27-year old Passaic, New Jersey man.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Settles with Tufts Medical Center to Better Ensure Equal Access for Individuals with Disabilities.
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: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge William F. Jung today sentenced Sean Ferraresi (34, Clermont) to 10 years and 1 month in federal prison for receipt of child pornography. The court also ordered Ferraresi to forfeit the computers he had used to download and store child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the House of Representatives voted to pass his legislation, H.R. 2339, the Protecting American Lungs and Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2020...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Bloomington, Illinois, man was sentenced today to 30 years in prison followed by lifetime supervised release for production and possession of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney John C. Milhiser of the Central District of Illinois. U.S. District Court Judge James E. Shadid pronounced the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge William F. Jung today sentenced Sean Ferraresi (34, Clermont) to 10 years and 1 month in federal prison for receipt of child pornography. The court also ordered Ferraresi to forfeit the computers he had used to download and store child pornography.
