News from February 2020
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON- The Democratic Steering and Policy Committee announced Thursday the placement of Rep. Xochitl Torres Small of New Mexico to the House Agriculture Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Craig M. Killmeyer, age 54, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was charged on Feb. 24, 2020, in a criminal information with exploitation of minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow today sentenced Catherine Elizabeth Pugh, age 69, of Baltimore, Maryland, to three years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Nicholas Kvatek, 41, Steven Point, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 18 years in federal prison for producing child pornography. This term of imprisonment is to be followed by 25 years of supervised release. Kvatek pleaded guilty to this charge on Nov. 26, 2019.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request for the Department of Education.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: A former associate scientist was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison in federal court today for stealing proprietary information worth more than $1 billion from his employer, a U.S. petroleum company.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee and the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's Member Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has indicted former prison transport officer Anthony Buntyn, 53, for abusing detainees who were in his care and for threatening the detainees with retaliation if they reported his abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of DELFONZO DENELL WALLACE, 30, to eight counts of interference with commerce by robbery, known as the Hobbs Act. The Hobbs Act prohibits actual or attempted robbery affecting interstate or foreign commerce “in any way or degree."...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Queens Pharmacy Owner Found Guilty of Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering Charges for Role in Billing Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced in federal court to three years’ probation with 90 days’ home detention on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 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 Fiscal Year 2021 budget request for the Department of Energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced James Bailey (33, Plant City) to seven years in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. The court also ordered Bailey to forfeit the firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man was arrested today by federal agents on charges of mortgage fraud and scheming to defraud the Orange Public Library, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, CHARLES GILBERT MURPHY, 63, of Apex, NC, pleaded guilty to Counts 10 and 13 of an indictment charging him with, among other things, Wire Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - America’s national parks continue to be popular destinations. Visitation to national parks in 2019 exceeded 300 million recreation visits for the fifth consecutive year. The 327.5 million total is the third highest since record keeping began in 1904.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, CHARLES GILBERT MURPHY, 63, of Apex, NC, pleaded guilty to Counts 10 and 13 of an indictment charging him with, among other things, Wire Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Cortez Weaver, a/k/a Corty and Tez, age 28, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to possessing, brandishing, and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, resulting in death of Maurice Finney.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that the former owner/operator of a Harrisburg based dental and vision claims processing business, Michael Timothy Buchanan, age 69, currently a resident of Fishers, Indiana, was sentenced to 37 months’...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Dear President Trump: I write with great concern about your selection of Vice President Mike Pence to lead the federal government’s response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). You were personally critical of President Obama’s choice to lead the government’s Ebola response given the individual’s...
