News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to federal narcotics and firearms charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Washington - Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) today endorsed Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) bipartisan Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act, growing the ranks of Senate Republican support. Other Senate Republicans are expected to announce their support for the bill in the coming days.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal tax laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for cocaine distribution and illegal firearm possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Demetrius Nathaniel Pitts, aka Abdur Raheem Rafeeq, aka Salah ad-Deen Osama Waleed, 50 of Maple Heights, Ohio, was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment and lifetime supervised release for attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, as well as 5 years of imprisonment each...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Rawlins County, Kansas, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to excessive rain, flash flooding, flooding, high winds, and hail that occurred between Aug. 11 and Aug. 14, 2019, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: FBI Releases the Internet Crime Complaint Center 2019 Internet Crime Report.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Jhon Alejandro Marin-Moreno (39, Medellin, Colombia) with conspiracy to smuggle goods from the United States, smuggling goods from the United States, and shipment of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. If convicted on all counts, Marin-Moreno faces a maximum penalty of 80 years in federal prison.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated two Wyoming counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers who suffered losses caused by two separate disaster events may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jasper E. Shook, of Petersburg, West Virginia, has admitted to child pornography charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Republican Leader of the Committee on Education and Labor, delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a committee markup of bipartisan legislation to protect patients from surprise medical bills, H.R. 5800, the Ban Surprise Billing Act ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Good morning and welcome to today’s hearing on the disappearing corporate income tax.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The head of a Houston-based company that was the subsidiary of a Chinese company that developed stolen trade secrets was sentenced Monday to sixteen months in prison and ordered to forfeit $342,424.96 by U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Walpole man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with failing to report income from his landscaping business to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, couple has been sentenced by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court, based on their convictions in an Involuntary Manslaughter and Child Abuse case.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Law Enforcement Recovered the Loaded Semi-automatic Pistol, 198 Grams of Marijuana, $5,755 in Cash, Two Digital Scales and Other Drug Paraphernalia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to federal narcotics and firearms charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, delivered the following remarks at the 2nd District Legislative Reception of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Mary Handzus, age 63, of Laporte, Pennsylvania, was charged on Feb. 10, 2020, in a criminal information with theft.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: GLEN JEAN, WV- New River Gorge National River Superintendent Lizzie Watts has announced that the park will host a community meeting on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 from 6:00 to 7:00 pm at the Canyon Rim Visitor Center in Lansing, WV. Park staff will present an overview of upcoming park projects and then allow time for questions and answers.
