News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Assault on a Federal Officer and Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) will co-host the 5th Annual FAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Symposium on June 16-18, 2020, at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Chair of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's second day of public witness hearings on tribal programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found a way to link measurements made by a device integral to microchip fabrication and other industries directly to the recently redefined International System of Units (SI, the modern metric system). That traceability can greatly increase users’ confidence in their measurements because the SI is now based entirely on fundamental constants of nature.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Committee Member Jackie Speier sent a letter seeking documents from the Secret Service regarding disturbing reports of exorbitant charges at President Donald Trump’s private clubs and resorts, as well as the Administration’s failure to disclose the amount of taxpayer dollars being spent at these private proprieties.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Dallas Mitchell Duflot, age 24, of Kingston, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Theft Of Mail, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1708, punishable by not more than 5 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SENTRELL BOOKHARDT, also known as “Scab," 33, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm and violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Saint Louis, MO - Daryaun Wines, 27, of Saint Louis County, MO, was sentenced to 17 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 Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park continues to share Hawaiian culture, stewardship programs and opportunities to explore the Kahuku Unit throughout March 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of tax evasion and failing to file tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Feb. 10, 2020, the Honorable Lynn Adelman sentenced Tedmund Blankschein (age: 51) to 15 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit tax fraud. Blankschein was also ordered to pay $5.4 million in restitution to the IRS, joint and several with his co-conspirator, Albert Golant, aka “Alex Golant.".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Nilo Arnaldo Pena Delgado, 32, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of bank fraud, was sentenced to serve 12 months and one day in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Canaveral National Seashore is planning to implement prescribed burn operations in the Apollo Beach (New Smyrna Beach) Fire Management Unit. The project area includes seven units for a total area of 1,269 acres.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that HUGH BRIAN HANEY was sentenced to 42 months in prison for money laundering charges, based on his attempt to launder the proceeds of a narcotics trafficking operation that HANEY ran on the Dark Web site known as “Silk Road." HANEY previously pled guilty to the money laundering charges before United States District Judge Jed S. Rakoff, who also imposed today’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to a federal drug charge.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: North Union Avenue from Grant Avenue to the USS Cairo Museum and the National Cemetery Road within Vicksburg National Military Park are closed to ensure visitor safety. Following heavy rainfall on February 10th and 11th, soil erosion heavily impacted the road surfaces necessitating the closures to ensure visitor safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Mark Triolo, 47, was sentenced on Feb. 11, 2020 to 75 months in jail by Judge Christina Reiss in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont. Triolo had previously pleaded guilty to three counts of robbery. Judge Reiss also imposed a three-year period of supervised release to be served after Triolo completes his jail sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - When American patients and their families receive medical care, they shouldn’t have to lie awake at night worrying about the hidden fees or unexpected bills to come. That’s why the House Committee on Ways and Means has offered its solution to end surprise medical bills once and for all.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Savannah man will spend a decade in prison for attempting to traffic a child for sexual exploitation.
