News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced that Daniel John Hodges, 25, of Concord, North Carolina. appeared in federal court today before U.S. Magistrate Judge David C. Keesler, and pleaded guilty to unlawful distribution of anabolic steroids.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Jayson Knox, a/k/a “Birdie," 21, a former substitute teacher at the McQueen School in Kivalina, Alaska, has been charged with attempted sexual exploitation of a child, transfer of obscene material to a minor, and attempted coercion and enticement of a minor. Knox was arrested yesterday, and is currently awaiting his initial court appearance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Feb. 27, 2020 - Roy Nellsch, 63, of Logan, Alabama, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Nashville, and charged with kidnapping, possession of child pornography and transportation of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Bowling Green real estate attorney H. Harris Pepper, Jr. entered a guilty plea to money laundering, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-AR) from today’s hearing entitled, “Proposals for a Water Resources Development Act of 2020: Members’ Day Hearing":
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Imad Dawara, 39, of Swarthmore, PA and Bahaa Dawara, 31, of Woodlyn, PA, were charged by Indictment today with conspiracy to defraud the United States by evading the assessment of their income tax liabilities from 2015-2017. This...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Anthony “Tony" D’Ambrosio, age 37, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Feb. 26, 2020 by Chief United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to 10 years’ imprisonment followed by five years’ supervised release for sex and drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Anthony “Tony" D’Ambrosio, age 37, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Feb. 26, 2020 by Chief United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to 10 years’ imprisonment followed by five years’ supervised release for sex and drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Andron McKinney (29, Tampa) to seven years and eight months in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. The court also ordered McKinney to forfeit the firearm and ammunition used in the offense.
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary Pompeo: On March 14, 2019, as part of its investigation into politically-motivated retaliation against State Department personnel, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (the “Committees") requested that the Department produce documents and make...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $513,274 grant to the Village of Atkinson, Illinois, to make critical sewer infrastructure improvements needed to support the growth of manufacturing businesses in the region. This EDA grant, to be matched with $513,274 in local investment, is expected to create or retain 110 jobs and attract $42 million in private investment.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on the California State Parks, Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division, off-highway vehicle recreation proposals, which are available for review from March 3 to May 4 at www.ohv.parks.ca.gov.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing titled, “Strengthening Communications Networks to Help Americans in Crisis."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned a six-count indictment yesterday charging JOSEPH NADER, 53, of Torrington, with fraud offenses.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: After a full year of hearings, business meetings, and bipartisan negotiations, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., today released the text of their energy innovation package.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continually lodges detainers with Chicago-area law enforcement agencies only to have those detainers declined and the subjects released into the community where they can reoffend.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, was joined by 13 senators in sending a letter to the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to voice their strong opposition to the Trump Administration's draft rule that ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Yesterday, the United States Attorney’s Office filed a motion to dismiss the remaining misdemeanor count against Scott Warren, for which he was found guilty. Senior District Judge Raner Collins granted the motion in court this morning. The dismissal is only as to the specific offense in Count 1 of the...
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C.-Representatives Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Chairman of the Committee, released the following statement on the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Crimea.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Reps. Doris Matsui (D-CA), and Brett Guthrie (R-KY) applauded the unanimous passage in the U.S. Senate of the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act (H.R. 4998 ), their bipartisan bill to help secure America’s telecommunications supply chain...
