News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Former Caregiver Pleads Guilty to Obstructing Investigation Related to Violation of Disabled Resident’s Civil Rights.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a documented member of the transnational criminal gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) on Thursday to El Salvador where he is wanted for gang membership and illicit possession of drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following remarks, as prepared, on the House floor in support of H.J.Res. 79, a joint resolution that would remove the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Mapleton man was sentenced today in federal court in Bangor for possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement for the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet hearing on "Protecting Federal Judiciary Employees from Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, and Other Workplace Misconduct"...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WEST PALM BEACH - United States District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg sentenced Scott Woolley, 59, of Delray Beach, Florida, to five months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for scheming to defraud the owner of a skin care product company out of about half a million dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Faces at Least 15 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Eleven individuals were indicted today by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to distribute controlled medications, such as oxycodone, without a legitimate medical purpose, obtaining controlled medication by deceit and subterfuge, paying and receiving illegal kickbacks for referrals to lab for urine tests of the patients, and submitting false claims to Medicare and other health insurers.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced its intent to issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) entitled “Connected Communities.".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A former youth softball umpire arrested during “Operation End Game," a multi-agency effort targeting and arresting adult perpetrators seeking sex with children, was sentenced to prison and will not be allowed to have contact with children without supervision, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Stephen Bray, of Bridgeport, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence woman who admitted to working directly with the local leader of a far-reaching multi-state fraud scheme that defrauded banks, finance companies, car dealerships, and retailers, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to two years and one day in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. - On Feb. 12, 2020, the Bureau of Land Management Battle Mountain District, Tonopah Field Office concluded a wild horse helicopter gather on the Reveille Herd Management Area (HMA) located about 50 miles east of Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada. Approximately 100-125 wild horses remain in the HMA.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Multiple men have been ordered to prison for a significant amount of time following their convictions related to drug trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - On Feb. 11, 2020, United States District Judge Susie Morgan sentenced GARRETT ROTH, age 27, a resident of Kenner, to fifty-one months in the Bureau of Prisons for being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of the Federal Gun Control Act announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Committee Member Carol Miller (R-WV) led a group of bipartisan members in introducing H.R. 5885, the Federal Employee Parental Leave Technical Correction Act, to ensure even more federal employees receive 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth, adoption, or fostering of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that a federal jury found Johnathon Irish, 33, of Littleton, New Hampshire, guilty of one count of being a felon in possession of firearms after a four-day trial. The verdict was returned late on Wednesday afternoon.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) and Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Pete Visclosky (D-IN) released the following statement on the Trump administration’s reprogramming of National Guard and military procurement funding for border wall construction.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Donald Johnson, 34, of Nashua, was sentenced in federal court to 42 months for participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of GARY JAMES DOKULIL, 40, to 160 months in prison for distribution of child pornography and making false statements in an application for a passport. DOKULIL, who pleaded guilty on Sept. 13, 2019, was sentenced today before Judge Joan N. Ericksen in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
