News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former president of a Colton-based labor union has been found guilty by a jury of 14 felony charges for stealing nearly $800,000 from the union’s health plan fund, which he used to pay for personal expenses including legal bills and a car loan for his son’s Ford Mustang Shelby GT500.
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today welcomed Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno to the historic Foreign Relations Committee room in the U.S. Capitol.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - United States Attorney David C. Weiss announced that Canda Quach, 28, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Richard G. Andrews. Quach previously pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute over 3000 grams of heroin in capsule form.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jeremy Snyder, age 43, of State College, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Feb. 10, 2020, by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann to 18 months’ imprisonment followed by two years on supervised release, for income tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, Missouri - 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 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.
By Commerce 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.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, sent a letter this week to the chief executives of 11 major banks in response to a misguided letter that a number of their Democratic colleagues sent in late January. The delegation’s letter calls out mischaracterizations being made as part of an effort to deter investment in responsible energy production in a small part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In case you missed it, yesterday, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), spoke on the Senate floor to highlight the Clean Economy Act, his legislation with 33 Senate cosponsors that would empower the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to both set and move the country toward a national goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by no later than 2050.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: In Austin today, a federal judge sentenced 49-year-old Charles McAllister, CEO and owner of Bullion Direct, Inc. (BDI), to ten years in federal prison for money laundering and scheming to defraud customers out of millions of dollars, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher...
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: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Miguel Alvarez Cervantes, 55, a Mexican national living in Los Molinos, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley, to nine years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.7 million grant to the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, to assist with the construction of a new water filtration...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After a six-day trial, Jaquorey Rashawn Carter, 24, of Sacramento, was found guilty today of sex trafficking of a child, and sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) interim final rule to implement improvements to the Regional Conservation Partnership Program in the 2018 Farm Bill...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), led 25 of their Senate colleagues in sending a letter to National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien pressing him to appoint a qualified, ...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) issued a Special Notice and Draft Performance Work Statement (PWS), Section C, for the Savannah River Site (SRS) Integrated Mission Completion Contract (IMCC).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States’ (BLM-ES) General Land Office (GLO) is collaborating with the National Park Service Homestead National Monument to present at RootsTech 2020, Salt Lake City, February 26 - Feb. 29, 2020, in order to help families discover their homesteading history.
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: Bismarck - United States Attorney Drew H. Wrigley announced that two co-defendants have been indicted and detained on federal child exploitation charges. On Feb. 11, 2020 Katie Heidinger of Velva, ND made her initial court appearance on Six Counts of Producing Sexually Explicit Images of Minors and...
