News from February 2020
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 USDA Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
Release: FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION. DA-2020-04. February 4, 2020To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials Effective immediately, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is amending the Karnal bunt regulated areas in La Paz, Maricopa, and Pinal Counties in Arizona. Following a review ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A vendor for several Veterans Affairs medical facilities was charged yesterday in connection with a scheme to profit by billing for, but failing to perform, critical medical gas inspections at VA facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Grundy County businessman has been charged with fraud for allegedly orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that raised at least $75 million from more than 500 investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James Smalley, 42, of Penn Yan, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to falsifying inspection reports for space parts. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The last defendant in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy was sentenced today to 10 years and one month in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Chair of the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Department of Energy's role in advancing biomedical sciences.
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey man who was previously convicted of several felonies admitted that he possessed and intended to distribute drugs and that he possessed a handgun to aid his drug distribution, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has established a revised National Emphasis Program (NEP) to identify and reduce or eliminate worker exposures to respirable crystalline silica (RCS) in general industry, maritime, and construction. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham. United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRIAN GREGAN, 33, of Windsor Locks, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for soliciting and receiving child pornography.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Daniel Lipinski (D-IL) during today’s hearing titled: “Tracking Toward Zero: Improving Grade Crossing Safety and Addressing Community Concerns."
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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Greeneville, Tenn. - On Feb. 3, 2020, Brandon David Meacham, 37, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Wednesday, February 12 at 10:30 am in 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building on six bills to improve energy efficiency and storage. The hearing is entitled, “Saving Energy: Legislation to Improve Energy Efficiency and Storage."
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: Defendant arrested with two pounds of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Christian Jamal Martin, 20, of Hattiesburg, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 126 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for his involvement in multiple armed robberies in Hattiesburg, as well as possessing ammunition...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Feb. 3, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested Marissa Martinez, 29, also known as Wilson Yovani Martinez or Maritza Martinez, an unlawfully present Guatemalan national after she was released by Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations hearing titled ““Vaping in America: E-Cigarette Manufacturers’ Impact on Public Health:"
