News published on Federal Newswire in February 2020

News from February 2020


Energy Department Announces Participants of 2021 Collegiate Wind Competition

News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the 13 collegiate teams selected to participate in the 2021 Collegiate Wind Competition. Three new schools were selected along with 10 returning teams from previous competitions. The colleges and universities selected to participate in the Collegiate Wind Competition 2021 are.


Black Market Marijuana Growers Sent To Federal Prison

News Release: Trial and sentencing a first following massive marijuana investigation announced in May of 2019.


Post Falls women sentenced to 10 years for murder for hire plot

News Release: COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Katrina (Katie) Lynn Danforth, 32, of Post Falls, Idaho, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 120 months in federal prison for use of interstate commerce facilities in commission of murder for hire, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland...


Newport Woman Admits to Receipt of Child Pornography

News Release: Facing five to twenty years in prison.


Statement of Ranking Member Sam Graves on the Passing of Matthew Zuccaro

News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) released the following statement on the passing of Matthew Zuccaro, who retired as president and CEO of Helicopter Association International (HAI) last month...


News Release: Seattle - Four racially motivated violent extremists from across the U.S. were arrested and charged today in U.S District Court in Seattle with a conspiracy to threaten and intimidate journalists and activists, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. Today’s arrests and searches by the FBI and local law enforcement are being coordinated by the Department of Justice’s National Security Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in Seattle, Tampa, Houston, and Phoenix.


News Release: Dr. DAVID RAY CESKO, 66, of Rawlins, Wyoming pleaded guilty on Feb. 26, 2020 in U.S. District Court in Cheyenne to multiple charges that, as a physician, he unlawfully distributed controlled substances, primarily opiates and benzodiazepines, to his patients.


News Release: Charges Result of November Carjacking Incident at Hermitage Kroger.


News Release: Good morning and welcome. We are holding this hearing today at a critical juncture in the U.S.-China trade and economic relationship. The scale and speed of China’s economic growth over these last few decades will undoubtedly be one of the most remarkable and consequential developments we experience in our lifetime.


Springdale Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Federal Prison for Bank Robbery

News Release: Fort Smith, AR - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Jaime Leonel Reinosa-Salguero, of Springdale, Arkansas, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison on one count of Bank Robbery and one count of Use of a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence. The Honorable P.K. Holmes III presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.


News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A Frankfort man, Fei Guo Tang, 49, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison on Wednesday, by U.S. District Court Judge Gregory VanTatenhove, for knowingly receiving child pornography and knowingly failing to pay workers minimum and time-and-a-half overtime wages.


News Release: Dear President Giammattei: Congratulations on your inauguration as President of Guatemala. We look forward to working closely with you in the coming years to strengthen our bilateral partnership and to support the Guatemalan people. To that end, we write to express our concern over a law recently passed...


Release: Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL), Chair of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request for the Judiciary.


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.


News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A citizen of Honduras was indicted today on charges of unlawfully re-entering the United States and attacking immigration officers when they took him into custody in Kansas, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.


News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 43-year-old former resident of San Antonio has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute meth, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.


News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to a firearms offense.


News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Two MS-13 members pleaded guilty today to their respective roles in a December 2018 shooting and stabbing that occurred in Four Mile Run Park on the border of Alexandria and Arlington.


News Release: Defendants created and coordinated delivery of threatening posters.


Huntington Woman Indicted as Part of International Nigerian Fraud Scheme for Laundering Funds

News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that a federal grand jury has indicted a Huntington woman in connection with laundering funds from an international fraud scheme that scammed money from individuals, many of whom were elderly, in several states and foreign countries.