News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Darwin Medina (also known as “Weezy" to his former drug customers in Franklin County) was sentenced today in federal court on one count of conspiring to distribute 280 grams or more of cocaine base and one count of conspiring...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: On Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, Longfellow House Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site and Mount Auburn Cemetery co-sponsored a 213th birthday celebration for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Nearly 100 visitors gathered in Mount Auburn’s Story Chapel for a presentation by Dr. Adriana Greci Green, Curator of Indigenous Arts of the Americas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - The Cincinnati City Council President Pro Tem has been arrested and charged federally with honest services wire fraud, bribery and attempted extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: A Portland tax return preparer was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Portland for preparing false tax returns, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: More than $156,000 will be paid to the Internal Revenue Service in restitution.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Seth Anthony Johnson, 35, of Twin Falls, Idaho, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 60 years in prison for sexual exploitation of a minor, possession of child pornography, and sexual exploitation of minor after a prior conviction for a felony sex offense, U.S. Immigration and Customs...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Dylan Hedrick, age 26, of Elwood, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Lincoln for Producing Child Pornography. Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Hedrick to 198 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. Hedrick will begin a 10-year term of supervised release upon his release from prison and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: MONTELLO, Nev., Feb. 25, 2020 - Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Nevada State Director Philip Cowee announced USDA has invested $2.3 million in a high-speed broadband infrastructure project that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for 273 households, seven farms, seven businesses and a critical community facility in eastern Nevada. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes to offer four parcels, totaling approximately 4,376.5 acres, at the June competitive oil and gas lease sale. The parcels are located in Grand and San Juan counties on public lands managed by the BLM’s Moab Field Office. The BLM has initiated a 30-day public comment period on the environmental assessment that ends on March 26, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boylston man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Worcester to two counts of filing false and fraudulent tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell Coleman will serve on President Donald Trump’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice Law Enforcement Recruitment and Training Working Group. The Working Group will hear from experts and practitioners with firsthand experience...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a hearing on advanced nuclear energy technologies on Tuesday, March 3, at 10:30 am in 2322 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Advanced Nuclear Technology’s Role in a Decarbonized Future."
By EPA Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Tuesday, March 3, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Combatting an Epidemic: Legislation to Help Patients with Substance Use Disorders."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Michael Anaya-Otero, 23, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 12 years and six months, for traveling interstate with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and enticement of a minor, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: COLUMBIA, S.C., Feb. 25, 2020 - Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development South Carolina State Director Debbie Turbeville announced USDA has invested $9.1 million in high-speed broadband infrastructure that will create or improve e-Connectivity for 6,251 homes in rural Kershaw County. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM crews have started tearing down the second of four sections of the Centrifuge Complex at Oak Ridge’s East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), the latest step towards completion of major demolitions at the site this year.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a hearing on advanced nuclear energy technologies on Tuesday, March 3, at 10:30 am in 2322 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Advanced Nuclear Technology’s Role in a Decarbonized Future."
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Tuesday, March 3, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Combatting an Epidemic: Legislation to Help Patients with Substance Use Disorders."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ray Davis, 30, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of two counts of sex trafficking, one count of sex trafficking conspiracy, two counts of production of child pornography, and two counts of distribution of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 25 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal jury in Madison, Wisconsin, convicted a La Crosse, Wisconsin, dentist today of four counts of tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the U.S. Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Scott C. Blader for the Western District of Wisconsin. The jury deliberated for approximately two hours.
