News from February 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A South Texas law enforcement officer was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison to be followed by five years of supervised release for drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man currently serving a term of state probation, having completed a sentence of eight years with 30 months to serve at the ACI for drug trafficking, today was ordered detained in federal custody following an investigation and his arrest by members of the FBI Safe Streets Gang Task Force into his alleged trafficking of crystal methamphetamine (meth) and crack cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: LAPWAI, Idaho - Would you like to share your traditional skills or stories with your community? Present your skills this summer at Nez Perce National Historical Park’s 2020 speaker series.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement on the House floor in support of S.394, the Presidential Transition Enhancement Act, a bill to strengthen the ethics requirements for presidential transition team members.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Armand Taylor, of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 18 months incarceration for his role in a drug distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man currently serving a term of state probation, having completed a sentence of eight years with 30 months to serve at the ACI for drug trafficking, today was ordered detained in federal custody following an investigation and his arrest by members of the FBI Safe Streets Gang Task Force into his alleged trafficking of crystal methamphetamine (meth) and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A federal jury sitting in Charleston has found a Lincoln County man guilty of illegally possessing a firearm, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against Daniel Dewayne Aikens, 37, of Alexandria, charging him with one count of making a threat by telephone, announced David C. Joseph, United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman initiated the first annual allocation of $120 million from the Reclamation Water Settlements Fund for Indian water rights settlements. The allocation will provide important funding for the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project in northern New Mexico and water projects on the Blackfeet Reservation in northwestern Montana.
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
Release: Foreword. The United States was among the first countries to welcome the independence of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan and has worked consistently over the last three decades to support the security, development, and prosperity of each of these countries. Central...
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement at a full committee hearing on challenges women face in global health...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Dominican national that remained in the United States without permission after her six-month visa expired in June 2003, today admitted that while remaining in the country illegally, she used the stolen identity and Social Security number of a woman living in Puerto Rico to obtain a Rhode Island driver’s license and government financed health care, unemployment, disability, and food stamp benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: ROCKFORD - Seven Rockford residents have been arrested by law enforcement officers on federal drug-trafficking and firearm charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Dear Dr. Dillingham: I write to request that you provide information as soon as possible on the Census Bureau’s plan, timeline, and budget for delivering Mobile Questionnaire Assistance Centers in the 2020 Census, as provided for in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020. As you know, questionnaire...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A 26-year-old Houston man is headed to federal prison following his convictions related to the 2019 robberies of a BBVA Compass Bank in Friendswood and Texas First Bank in Galveston, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Joseph Lloyd James, 48, of Norfolk, entered a plea of guilty today in federal court in Omaha to First Degree Murder in Indian Country. James murdered Phyllis Hunhoff, of Yankton, South Dakota, on the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation in Nebraska. United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Shawn Morse, age 52, the former Mayor of Cohoes, New York, was sentenced today to two years of probation, 200 hours of community service, a $3,000 fine, and forfeiture of $12,250, for defrauding his supporters by stealing campaign contributions for his personal benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A South Texas law enforcement officer now finds himself behind prison bars following his conviction on multiple drug trafficking charges, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that David Bukoski, 24, of Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, was recently sentenced for operating a long-running Denial of Service (DoS) for-hire service, known as Quantum Stress, which allowed paying users to conduct wide-ranging attacks on individual...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge William F. Jung today sentenced Jordan Rodriguez (Bradenton, 26) to, among other things, three terms of life imprisonment. Rodriguez’s co-defendants, Alfonzo Churchwell (Bradenton, 32) and Andrew Thompson (Bradenton, 25) were also sentenced to multiple life terms...
