News from February 2020
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 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 in response to a dispute between the president and the national assembly in El Salvador:
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: I want to welcome our witness, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Honorable Alex Azar.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A New Jersey resident has plead guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Saint Louis, MO - Johnzell Moorehead, 30, of Saint Louis, MO, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on one count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of assaulting a federal law enforcement officer. Wines appeared today before U.S. District Judge John A. Ross who imposed the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY -- A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City, Utah, returned an indictment Thursday afternoon charging Sergio Sosa, and his adult children, Alissa and David Sosa, with conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and United States Attorney John W. Huber for the District of Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Three members of an Eastern Shore drug trafficking organization have been sentenced to federal prison on drug conspiracy charges. U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced the three co-defendants to terms of imprisonment ranging from just over five years to just over 11 years.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Central Coast Field Office is seeking public input on an environmental assessment and draft amendment to the Resource Management Plan for the California Coastal National Monument that will provide management direction for Cotoni-Coast Dairies public lands in Santa Cruz County. The 30-day public review period ends on March 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man pleaded guilty today in federal court to robbing a bank, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Knoxville, Tenn. - On Feb. 13, 2020, Dustin Ray Richards, 26, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was sentenced by United States District Judge Thomas A. Varlan to serve 97 months in federal prison for receiving and possessing child pornography. Following his imprisonment, Richards will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for 10 years and will be required to register with the state sex offender registry in any state in which he lives, works, or attends school.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) served three immigration subpoenas Thursday to the State of Connecticut Court Support Services Division officials, requesting information on multiple illegal aliens who were criminally arrested in Connecticut, and yet under Connecticut’s non-cooperation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney John H. Durham, Waterbury State’s Attorney Maureen Platt, ATF Boston Field Division Special Agent in Charge Kelly D. Brady, FBI New Haven Division Special Agent in Charge Brian C. Turner, and Waterbury Police Chief Fernando C. Spagnolo, today announced that JERMAINE GILBERT, 21, of Waterbury...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal jury convicted 50-year-old Brian Alfaro, owner of Primera Energy, LLC, of scheming to defraud investors in his company, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division; and, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Goss, Houston Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal jury convicted 50-year-old Brian Alfaro, owner of Primera Energy, LLC, of scheming to defraud investors in his company, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division; and, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Goss, Houston Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced two MS-13 gang members, Jose Alberto Sibrian Garcia, a/k/a Chango, age 28, and Carlos Hernandez Diaz, a/k/a Positivo, age 29, both of Silver Spring, Maryland, to 27 years each in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - A federal grand jury has charged three top administrators of a Philippines-based church with overseeing a labor trafficking scheme that forced church members to solicit donations for a bogus charity after the defendants illegally obtained visas and other immigration documents that allowed the workers to enter and remain in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A registered sex offender who pleaded guilty to committing child sexual exploitation crimes while still on supervised release in a previous case was sentenced today to 50 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -This week, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, held a hearing with the Director of the Census Bureau and officials from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine a new GAO report warning of “significant risks" to the “cost, quality, schedule, and security" of the 2020 Census.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - A former Valex Federal Credit Union loan officer and assistant manager was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for bank fraud, announced United States Attorney David C. Joseph.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A federal grand jury has charged three top administrators of a Philippines-based church with overseeing a labor trafficking scheme that forced church members to solicit donations for a bogus charity after the defendants illegally obtained visas and other immigration documents that allowed the workers to enter and remain in the United States.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the afternoon of Wednesday, Feb. 26, with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar on President Trump’s budget request for HHS and its agencies for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 as well as the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
