News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Kentucky Correctional Officers Sentenced for Beating Handcuffed Detainee and Attempting to Cover Up the Assault.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2021 EPA Budget:"
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Reps. Doris Matsui (D-CA), and Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement after the Senate passed the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act (H.R. 4998 ), their bipartisan bill to help secure America’s telecommunications supply chain...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Strengthening Communications Networks to Help Americans in Crisis:"
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: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Three men pled guilty to federal drug crimes before United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers in Huntington, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “The Fiscal Year 2021 EPA Budget."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban man has been sentenced to more than a dozen years in federal prison for amassing a collection of nearly 200,000 images and videos of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Derek Shawn Pendergraft, 22, of Asheville, has been sentenced to life in prison, for the murder of his co-worker, Sara Ellis. U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger presided over today’s sentencing hearing.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Reps. Doris Matsui (D-CA), and Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement after the Senate passed the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act (H.R. 4998 ), their bipartisan bill to help secure America’s telecommunications supply chain...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Lancaster County man who was convicted of the murder of a Virginia State Police Special Agent pleaded guilty today to possession of a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal jury in Las Cruces, New Mexico returned a guilty verdict yesterday against Francisco Armando Martinez, 39, of Tucson, Arizona on one count of transporting illegal aliens.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - A Hungarian national, who has pending charges for sex trafficking and previous sex convictions was arrested last week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) during ongoing enforcement efforts in New York City and the surrounding region, targeting at-large criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants and other immigration violators.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The principal and co-founder of a North Andover mortgage short sale assistance company was sentenced yesterday in connection with defrauding mortgage lenders and investors out of nearly $500,000 in proceeds from about 90 short sale transactions.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and its Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) warning that she will be forced to consider alternative means of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced today that Jarrell Boyan, 29, of Columbia, was sentenced to 7 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to deprivation of rights under color of law.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. -On Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, will hold a hearing on the ways the Trump Administration is undermining LGBTQ rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Missouri, man who was formerly a police officer was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NELSON FERRY, also known as “300," 29, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 87 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl and crack cocaine.
