News from February 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson (D-Minn.) released the following statements on the “American Wild Game and Livestock Protection Act." Introduced today, the legislation would require the Secretary of the Interior...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, announced that Lorenzo Wade, 25, of Rochester, who previously pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of HURIAH KAREEM BLEDSOE, 40, to 120 months in prison for illegally possessing five firearms and quantities of marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin. BLEDSOE, who pleaded guilty on Oct. 15, 2019, was sentenced today before Judge Susan Richard Nelson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Gulf Breeze, Fla. - The National Park Service will attempt to conduct controlled burns in the Naval Live Oaks Area of the national seashore on Sunday and Monday. Acceptable weather conditions are expected on both days. Crews will target the burn block (NLO-8) on the northeastern corner of the park on Sunday, March 1 and burn blocks (NLO-6 & 7) north of Hwy. 98 on Monday, March 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Faces at Least 20 Years in Federal Prison; Law Enforcement Recovered Five Firearms from Defendant’s Apartment.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is publishing final criteria the agency will use to evaluate and recognize livestock compartments in other countries. Compartmentalization is an important tool animal health officials can use to protect against ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Scott Hemingway, age 63, of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Feb. 27, 2020, by a federal grand jury on one charge of impeding a federal officer.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: O'FALLON, MO - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited R&R Contracting Services Inc. after an employee suffered fatal injuries when he was crushed by a powered industrial truck at the company's O'Fallon, Missouri, facility in September 2019. OSHA cited the portable restroom service provider for nine serious violations, and proposed penalties of $52,626.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recognized Better Buildings Challenge partner Chesapeake College for energy efficiency advances made throughout its Wye Mills, Maryland campus. The college has reduced its energy intensity by 24% since 2011, reaching its Better Buildings Challenge goal of 20%...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Brian A. Benczkowski, Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, announced today that RICHARD GAFFEY, a/k/a “Dick Gaffey," pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A San Bernardino County man who worked as a bankruptcy petition preparer (BPP) was arrested today on federal criminal charges that allege he acted as an unlicensed attorney in bankruptcy cases, charged fees well over those permitted by law and then repeatedly lied to the United States Bankruptcy Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Ware man was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield on sex trafficking and sexual exploitation charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - A former military subcontractor was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 33 months in prison and three years of supervised release for illegally possessing a firearm silencer and equipment that was property of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Poca, West Virginia man entered a guilty plea to mail fraud for his role in a scheme to defraud Toyota of more than $4 million, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Stanley Clark, 67, faces up to 20 years of incarceration when he is scheduled to be sentenced on May 28, 2020. He will also be required to pay restitution to Toyota.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Chicago, Illinois, man was sentenced to life in prison by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jose Mendoza, 32, and Natalie Mendoza, 35, of Medanales, New Mexico, Ryan Rodriguez, 27, of Chamita, New Mexico, Andrea Rodriguez, 28, and Edvardo Carlson, 39, of Espanola, New Mexico, and Bridget Archuleta, 31, of San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico appeared in federal court today for arraignment...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: ELMENDORF, Texas, Feb. 28, 2020 - Today, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced a $19 million investment in three, high-speed broadband infrastructure projects that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for almost 7,000 rural households, 46 farms, 32 pre-subscribed businesses, 19 critical...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Philadelphia Return Preparer Convicted of Tax Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Mark A. Klaassen issued a statement today on the Northern Arapaho Tribe’s Resolution Declaring a State of Emergency of Methamphetamine Usage on the Wind River Reservation.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Gary Peters, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) introduced bipartisan legislation to help protect Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employees from accidental exposure to fentanyl and other synthetic...
