News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: SAN ANTONIO, TX - Karen Mgerian age 41 admitted to conspiring to launder millions of dollars of purported drug proceeds through a scheme that included the sale of luxury cars, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division, U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Goss, Houston Field.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Senator Elizabeth Warren, a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, sent a letter asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine the total annual medical costs associated with gun violence in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Hashim Hussein, a citizen of Kuwait, was indicted today on drug charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Verona, PA, has been sentenced to federal prison on federal narcotics charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Tom Wynne pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit tax evasion, one count of tax evasion, and seven counts of money laundering. He faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison for each of the tax-related counts and up to 10 years in federal prison for each money laundering count.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a three count indictment charging Peter Hingston, 59, of Amherst, NY, with two counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 70 years in prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Reducing the cybersecurity risk to one of the most vulnerable aspects of commerce - global supply chains - is the goal of a new publication by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), whose computer security experts have distilled a set of effective risk management techniques into a draft guidebook for businesses. NIST is seeking public comment on the draft for the next 30 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: MARSHALL, Texas - A 41-year-old Hughes Springs, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking crimes in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: A man who possessed child pornography was sentenced today to two years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Jack Eugene Knight, age 54, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for two counts of Receiving Child Pornography and two counts of Possessing Child Pornography. United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Knight to 400...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Gordon Lloyd Swartz, IV, of Jacksonburg, West Virginia, was indicted today on a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: A suspected neo-Nazi has pleaded guilty to a gun crime following an investigation by the FBI, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) and House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today urged the Trump administration to transmit a request to Congress for emergency supplemental appropriations to respond to the coronavirus outbreak.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Three Mexican citizens and a Guatemalan citizen were indicted today on reentry charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Herman Lee Brown, Jr., of Inwood, West Virginia, was sentenced to 51 months incarceration for a firearms violation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: A man who possessed child pornography was sentenced today to two years in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Forty-three teams of middle school students from across South Carolina built large, complex tabletop models of cities with clean, safe drinking water systems for the recent Future City Regional Competition, as part of an education outreach program managed by an EM contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached a settlement agreement with the Circle Hotel in Fairfield, to resolve allegations that the hotel was not in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA").
