News from February 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - The leader of a drug organization based in Coahuila, Mexico, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Tuesday for his role in various smuggling schemes involving drugs, firearms and people.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Since tax reform was enacted in 2017, our economy has grown and strengthened, with American families and businesses seeing real benefits. Unemployment rates have dropped dramatically, with unemployment among Hispanic, Latino and African American workers at record lows.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Grandview, Missouri, man who was wounded in a shoot-out on Troost Avenue pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: DETROIT - An MS-13 gang member, in the country illegally and wanted in El Salvador for homicide, was arrested last week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) during ongoing enforcement efforts in Michigan and Ohio targeting at-large criminal aliens, illegal reentrants and other immigration violators.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
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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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard, sentenced MICHAEL DELINDA STANSBURY, 47, of Littleton to 72 months’ imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release. STANSBURY was named in...
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 Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), responds to the U.S. District Court rejection of a lawsuit from a coalition of state attorneys general to block the T-Mobile-Sprint merger...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, was joined by 32 Senators in introducing legislation that would put the United States on a path to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by no later than 2050.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “EPA’s Lead and Copper Proposal: Failing to Protect Public Health."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced GREGORY ANTHONY CHRISTOS, 62, of Raleigh to 120 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. The Court also ordered CHRISTOS to pay $3,760,890 in restitution to various individual and corporate victims, as well as the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of false statement to the government, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on “Autonomous Vehicles: Promises and Challenges of Evolving Automotive Technologies:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - An Ozark, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to failing to pay more than $300,000 in employment taxes for his businesses in Springfield.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), responds to the U.S. District Court rejection of a lawsuit from a coalition of state attorneys general to block the T-Mobile-Sprint merger...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Proposal: Falling Short of Protecting Public Health:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An East Greenwich attorney and businesswoman who duped family members, friends, and business associates as she operated a $10.3 million Ponzi scheme to help finance an extravagant lifestyle, including a $1 million home, numerous expensive trips abroad and multiple trips to the Super Bowl...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Matthew Enhoffer (34, St. Petersburg) today pleaded guilty to distribution and possession of child pornography. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years, and up to 20 years, in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm today sentenced Thomas L. Bishop, 60, of the 1600 block of West Bradley Ave., in Champaign, Ill., to nine years in federal prison for attempted enticement of a minor in August 2019. Judge Mihm ordered that Bishop remain on supervised release for a ten-year term following his release from the federal Bureau of Prisons. Bishop has been in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service since his arrest in August 2019.
