News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y. - New York Attorney General Letitia James, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York State Police Superintendent Keith M. Corlett, Dermot F. Shea, Commissioner, New York City Police Department, and U.S. Homeland Security...
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today hosted a working coffee with Director General Rafael Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to discuss the IAEA’s critical role in nuclear nonproliferation and the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced two Sacramento residents each to two years in prison for conspiring to commit wire fraud, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Ruben Rodriguez, 43, and Jaime Mayorga, 41, were convicted at a jury trial in April 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Kemo Riley, of St. Thomas, pled guilty yesterday to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. The Honorable Curtis V. Gomez, Chief Judge, District Court of the Virgin Islands, accepted the guilty plea.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed six bills from the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, including bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Estuary Program, and support restoration efforts in the Chesapeake Bay, the Great Lakes, and the Lake Pontchartrain Basin.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: You are invited to participate in the Mesa Verde National Park 2020 Winterfest! on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. Enjoy a unique opportunity to explore Mesa Verde’s Morefield Campground, and the Meadow Bliss and Cottontail Loop trails in the moonlight by snowshoe or skis. Join us for night sky viewing (conditions...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Van Buren, MO - Preparations are underway for Ozark National Scenic Riverways to accomplish several prescribed burns this spring, between early February and mid-April.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Fort Larned NHS - On Saturday, Feb. 22, the Fort Larned staff will have a night sky program including the measuring of light pollution at the fort. Jerelyn Ramirez, president of the Kansas Astronomical Observers, Wichita, will be our special speaker that night. Ramirez will be bringing the proper implements to measure light pollution. Even if there are clouds blocking our view of the stars above, we will still have a good program indoors.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Devale Montray Jackson, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to his role in a cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: OAKLAND - Joseph Daniel Sandoval was sentenced to 130 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Rayfield Roundtree. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Jeffrey S. White, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Kenneth Sanders, age 39, of Mishawaka, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for conspiracy to distribute over 500 grams of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine and over 100 grams of a mixture or substance containing heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton man was sentenced today to 86 months in prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon and for distributing quantities of heroin, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: GLENNALLEN, Alaska - The BLM today opened a 15-day public scoping period seeking input on the proposed sale of beetle-killed white spruce trees on 500 acres of BLM-managed lands between Mileposts 60 and 70 of the Richardson Highway, an area known as the Tiekel Block.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRIAN MATOS, also known as “Buddha," 30, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Richard Ronald Wells, age 71, of Spokane, Washington and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, was sentenced after having pleaded guilty on April 30, 2019, to six counts of mail fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, one count of money laundering, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hoboken-based accountant was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for evading more than $914,000 in taxes on income he earned from his accounting practice and various rental properties he owned, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services, delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing on workers’ civil rights in the digital age...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The former President and owner of a Glassboro, New Jersey, drum reconditioning company was sentenced today to 30 days’ imprisonment for illegally storing hazardous waste, U.S Attorney Craig Carpenito, and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jean E. Williams of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Feb. 3, 2020, Earl Edward Lara, 60, of Sacaton, Arizona, an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael T. Liburdi to 168 months in prison, to be followed by lifetime supervised release. He will also be required to register as a sexual offender. The defendant pleaded guilty on October 8, 2019, to Abusive Sexual Contact with a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Allegedly Failed to Report Financial Benefits He Received from Individuals and Companies Doing Business with Walter Reed.
