News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that NANCY CREDIDIO, the former manager of a car insurance brokerage, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for defrauding more than 1,100 victim customers out of more than $415,000. CREDIDIO previously pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud before United States District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, who also imposed today’s sentence.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested an aggravated felon and immigration fugitive Wednesday at Union Station after he was released from an Illinois Department of Corrections jail despite an ICE detainer on file.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-Ore.), Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) today released the following statement on the surprise medical billing proposals from the House Education and Labor Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled “Looking Forward: The Future of America’s Aviation Maintenance and Manufacturing...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
Release: FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION. DA-2020-02. February 7, 2020 To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials Effectively immediately, the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), in cooperation with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and the California citrus ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Royal Gorge Field Office is seeking the public’s input on a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) evaluating the proposed expansion of the Parkdale Quarry, west of Cañon City.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the filing of a criminal complaint charging D.K. Johnson (80, Jacksonville) with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. If convicted, Johnson faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Indictment Alleges He Shipped Products to Himself, Sold them on Personal Amazon Account.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced on February 6, 2020 that ZETRICK JONES, age 36, a resident of Tickfaw, Louisiana, was sentenced to serve a total of 107 months in federal prison for violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act and the Federal Gun Control Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Officers Seized Nearly $500,000 in Drug Proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO - A federal indictment was returned today against Lashawn Travion Clayburn, 18, of Saint Louis County, for his role in the January 5, 2019 death of victim Naomi Miller, 61, of Pine Lawn. The indictment specifically charges Clayburn with one count for carjacking victim Miller’s 2014 red Ford Escape and one count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of that carjacking that resulted in victim Miller’s death.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Kenneth Ray Manzanares, 42, of Santa Clara, Utah, pleaded guilty to one count of murder in the second degree for the July 2017 killing of his wife, Kristy Manzanares, onboard the cruise ship Emerald Princess in the U.S. Territorial Waters outside Southeast Alaska.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Dina Titus (D-NV) sent a letter to the General Services Administration (GSA), with follow-up questions after Administrator Emily Murphy testified before the Committee on January 28th, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Cane River Creole National Historical Park and Cane River National Heritage Area will join with the International Game Fish Association to host a free learn-to-fish clinic at Oakland Plantation. Clinics are open from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 8.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that LEILANI ASPURIA, age 25, of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, was sentenced on February 5, 2020 by U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to (10) ten years of imprisonment followed by (3) three years of supervised release for distributing ketamine which resulted in the death of a Slidell, Louisiana teenager. The eighteen year old’s dead body was found floating in a Texas bayou.
By State Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - Steamtown National Historic Site is closing at 12:00 p.m. (noon) today, Friday, February 7, 2020, due to forecast winter weather that could jeopardize visitor, staff, and volunteer safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Lee’s Summit, Missouri, woman and her brother, a Denver, Colorado, man, were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute more than $1.7 million of marijuana that was mailed from Colorado to Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Vance Pearson, the former Director of the United Auto Worker’s Region 5 and a former member of the UAW’s International Executive Board, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with other UAW officials to embezzle hundreds of thousands of dollars of UAW dues money and to further racketeering activity announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: What: The U.S. Census Bureau will host an Interfaith Partner Summit with faith-based leaders from across the nation for a moderated panel discussion about the 2020 Census. Leaders of faith are trusted voices within their communities and have been key partners in previous census counts helping to ensure...
