News from February 2020
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - How would you like to work, learn, play, and serve in the world’s first national park? Yellowstone is currently recruiting for the 2020 Youth Conservation Corps (YCC), a residential work-based education program for young men and women between the ages of 15 and 18. Visit the YCC program to apply. Completed application materials must be received by March 1, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 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 6, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - A federal jury has found Darryl Gray Smith, Jr. (30, Orange Park) guilty of two counts of attempted online enticement of a child to engage in sexual activity, and one count of online solicitation of child pornography. Smith faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, and up...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - United States Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee collected $7,467,543.96 in criminal and civil actions during Calendar year 2019. Of that amount, $5,442,925.21 was collected through civil actions and $2,024,618.75 stemmed from fines and restitution ordered as part of criminal convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas -A Beaumont, Texas business owner and his wife have been convicted of federal tax violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released a new analysis revealing that the Trump Administration is continuing to show bias in distributing aid to farmers affected by their chaotic trade policies.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 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 legislative hearing entitled, “Clearing the Air: Legislation to Promote Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage:"
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: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 135 months in prison for her role in conspiring to distribute fentanyl, which resulted in the overdose of an inmate at a New Jersey State prison, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Conway, Missouri, man who threatened another driver in a road rage incident pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing a firearm.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement praising President Donald J. Trump after signing into law the Temporary Reauthorization and Study of the Emergency Scheduling of Fentanyl Analogues Act, an extension to ban fentanyl analogues.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ELIAS HERBERT HAFEN, a former financial adviser at two investment banks with offices in New York, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in prison for having defrauded his clients out of more than $1.6 million. HAFEN previously pled guilty to one count of investment adviser fraud before United States District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, who imposed yesterday’s sentence.
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement on the growing number of attacks on civilians in Idlib, Syria...
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement regarding an increase in attacks against civilians in Idlib, Syria:
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Last night, in his State of the Union address, President Trump called on Congress to put bipartisan legislation to lower prescription drug prices on his desk.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TX -The National Park Service is seeking applications from candidates interested in working permanently for Big Bend National Park as Public Safety Dispatchers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Alan Gaines, a Missouri resident, with participating in a conspiracy to rig bids submitted to the General Services Administration (GSA) at online auctions for surplus government equipment, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: The owners of two telemedicine companies were charged in an indictment unsealed yesterday for allegedly orchestrating a nationwide scheme to receive kickbacks and bribes in exchange for the ordering of medically unnecessary orthotic braces (braces) for beneficiaries of Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Two Greensboro, North Carolina, business owners pleaded guilty today to failing to pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: A federal jury found a Montana man guilty yesterday for his role as a broker for a Swiss company involved in a multimillion-dollar international fraud scheme.
