News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that NAZARIO CRUZ-MUNOZ, age 35, was charged on Jan. 31, 2020 in a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Marvin Reymundo-Lopez, age 28, a citizen of Guatemala, was charged on February 5, 2020, by a federal grand jury with illegal re-entry into the United States by a previously deported alien.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12), the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement condemning Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf’s abrupt policy announcement last night excluding New York residents from Trusted Traveler eligibility...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Dale Robert Barnhart, of Alma, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today applauded the House passage of bipartisan legislation to cut down on billions of dollars in wasteful government spending. The Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 will...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau began contacting group quarters facilities across the nation this week ahead of the 2020 Census Group Quarters Operation - the way the Census Bureau ensures an accurate count of individuals who live or stay in a group living arrangement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Three Louisville Metropolitan Police Department (LMPD) officers charged with wire fraud for their part in a scheme to defraud the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the federal government, and their own department have been sentenced today, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Dr. Leonard Marino failed to report more than $1M in income.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Bucklew has sentenced Jermaine Rhoomes (46, St. Petersburg) to four years and nine months in federal prison for trafficking firearms, ammunition, and gun parts to Jamaica, in violation of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. The sentence imposed was the maximum recommended by the United States Sentencing Guidelines.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - February 6 marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the FBI, and the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section (HRSP) of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, all members of the Human Rights Violators...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A man charged with a 2015 murder occurring in Osage County pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to murder in the second degree, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
Release: As part of USDA’s continuing collaboration with its state partners to enhance customer service while maintaining program integrity in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is expanding the work that vendors and private staff/contractors (“non-merit personnel") can do at SNAP call centers-ending the constraint that only state agency employees (“merit personnel") may handle certain tasks.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: DALLAS - A Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang member implicated in nine attempted murders was sentenced Thursday to life in federal prison, following an investigation by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today released the following statement blasting President Trump’s Department of the Interior final management plans for the reduced Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. Trump’s action today is a continuation of his illegal 2016 decision to shrink both monuments by approximately two million acres.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today requested that the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) reallocate the unused quantities of the U.S. World Trade Organization (WTO) fiscal 2020 raw sugar import tariff-rate quota (TRQ).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Georgia man pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing more than 3.4 kilograms of cocaine that he was transporting through Kansas City on a bus.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: CRA/LA Agrees to Pay $3.1 Million to Resolve Alleged Misuse of Federal Funds for Inaccessible Housing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Two Hampton men pleaded guilty today to their respective roles in a multi-kilogram drug trafficking conspiracy that operated in the peninsula area of the Hampton Roads.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: SAN JOSE - John Penn Bivins, Jr. was sentenced to 51 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and United States Marshal Donald M. O’Keefe. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Dennis A. Toomer, 37, of Valparaiso, Florida, was sentenced to 240 months in.
