News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Samson Paul Yohe, age 28, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on February 5, 2020, by a federal grand jury with malicious attempt to destroy building by fire and explosive and possession of an unregistered firearm (destructive device).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Former Kentucky Deputy Jailer Sentenced for Repeatedly Tasing Suicidal Inmate to Punish Him for Cursing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jai Vijay, 54, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with the owners of home health care agencies and a hospice agency to pay and receive illegal kickbacks in exchange for Medicare beneficiary referrals.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
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: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Karl Justin Dunn, III, of Kearneysville, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing heroin, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Edward Stinson, 30, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to 360 months’ imprisonment and five years’ supervised release by United States District Court Judge Paul S. Diamond for leading the Stinson Drug Trafficking Group, which sold crack cocaine in and around the Norman Blumberg Apartment Complex in North Philadelphia from about 2010 through 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LYNWOOD COGDELL, 32, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to two counts of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Mississippi Tax Return Preparer Indicted for Filing False Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has launched a new webpage marking the 50th anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, the landmark worker safety and health law that led to the creation of OSHA.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Jon Michael Mauldwin, 28, was sentenced today to 241 months in prison and five years of supervised release for a federal carjacking and related firearms charge stemming from the kidnapping of a Port Barre man, announced David C. Joseph, United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - On Feb. 13, 2020 the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet will hold a hearing on “Protecting Federal Judiciary Employees from Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, and Other Workplace Misconduct." The hearing will examine the state of the ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: (BELLE FOURCHE, SD.) - The Bureau of Land Management is accepting sealed bids on two Fort Meade Recreation Area grazing allotments during the 2020-2022 grazing season. The leases are for cattle grazing only.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: U.S. wholesalers experienced a 7.4% increase in sales in 2018, according to estimates from the Annual Wholesale Trade Survey (AWTS) released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - DeShawn Torrell Salley (49, Tampa) today pleaded guilty to distributing at least 50 grams of methamphetamine, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a mandatory minimum term of 15 years, and up to life, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Remarks of Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Steven Winberg as prepared at the Small-Scale LNG Deployment in Central and Eastern Workshop in Tirana, Albania on February 5, 2020.
By State Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Dear Mr. Sciacchitano: We write to express our concern regarding the continued exclusion of Taiwan from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), particularly in light of the coronavirus outbreak. We are also deeply troubled by ICAO’s decision to block social media accounts of those criticizing...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Saint Louis -Monte Clayton Lynch, 49, of Saint Louis County, Missouri, was indicted today on one felony count of bank robbery stemming from a string of bank robberies that occurred last summer.
