News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced a Carrizo Springs man to 200 months in federal prison for setting up a hidden camera in his bathroom to video minor females over a four-year period beginning in August 2012, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
Release: Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Chair of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request for the USDA Office of Inspector General.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Vincent Ingino, age 28, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was found guilty of two counts of unlawfully distributing a controlled substance resulting in death after a five-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - A 200-foot meteorological tower critical to cleanup planning at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) Site recently passed an annual inspection.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury in Chicago has convicted a physician on fraud charges for approving medically unnecessary tests that were billed to Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today that Julian Brown, 47, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of distribution of crack cocaine, was sentenced to serve 30 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa. has been sentenced in federal court in Johnstown to 120 months in prison and eight years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Federal Highways Administration staff assessed the mudslide on the Spur this morning and began clearing operations. The mudslide contains an estimated 500 cubic yards of material in a pile approximately 100 feet in length and 70 feet high covering both lanes of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: American Businessman Who Ran Houston-Based Subsidiary of Chinese Company Sentenced to Prison for Theft of Trade Secrets.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) issued a Draft Request for Proposals for the Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) procurement at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site, near Idaho Falls, Idaho, and the Fort St. Vrain facility in Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - The Justice Department yesterday announced that it has filed suit against local jurisdictions in the states of California and New Jersey, and King County, Washington, for implementing policies that it alleges violates the “Supremacy Clause" of the Constitution, which provides that...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is developing new exhibits for Charles Pinckney National Historic Site’s historic Snee Farm house and museum and is seeking public comment on the exhibit ideas. The draft design and development documents are available to the public at.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Jennifer Dwyer, 49, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, was sentenced today in federal court on one count of wire fraud arising out of the embezzlement of approximately $2.2 million over a ten-year period from her Lyndonville employer...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: At 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, historian Gregory P. Shine will return to the Fort Vancouver Visitor Center to present a special program titled “’I am Also Entitled to be Recognized’: The Journey of Moses Williams, Buffalo Soldier." The program will explore the life, military service, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Semaj Jermal Jefferson, 27, of Gulfport, was sentenced today by Senior U. S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to 46 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a convicted felon in possession a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF"). Jefferson was also ordered to pay a $2,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Defendants in two separate Project Safe Childhood cases pled guilty, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: The United States Attorneys from Oklahoma share Attorney General William Barr’s concerns with sanctuary policies in some cities across our nation expressed yesterday at the National Sheriff’s Association conference. (See remarks here.) U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing, Western District of Oklahoma, U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Melissa Scanlan, known as “The Drug Llama," has been sentenced to 160 months in federal prison in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois for trafficking fentanyl throughout the United States via the “dark web," engaging in an international money laundering conspiracy, and distributing fentanyl that results in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Four Texans, One New Yorker Arrested for Conspiracy to Sell Sanctioned Iranian Oil to Refinery in China for Huge Profit.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: DURANGO - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that David Sidney Wells, age 43, of Towaoc, Colorado, was found guilty last week of federal sexual and physical assault charges following a week-long jury trial. Wells appeared at trial in custody and was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service at the trial’s conclusion. The FBI and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) joined in today’s announcement.
