News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was yesterday today in federal court in Boston with drug distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On January 7, 2020, Sandra Gamboa, 49, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton to twelve months and one day of imprisonment. Gamboa pleaded guilty to filing false income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that David White Jr., 49, of Jonesville, Louisiana, was sentenced January 7, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell, to serve 97 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, man, Joseph G. Peavler, 53, admitted, in federal court on Friday, committing wire fraud and assisting in the preparation of a false income tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man pleaded guilty today for conspiracy to straw purchase 31 firearms.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: BOISE, ID - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has signed a two-year alliance with the Boise School District in Idaho to teach good workplace safety and health practices to young and vulnerable employees who are entering the workforce.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, man, Joseph G. Peavler, 53, admitted, in federal court on Friday, committing wire fraud and assisting in the preparation of a false income tax return.
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the Treasury Department’s decision to sanction the First Vice President of South Sudan, Taban Deng Gai (Deng) for egregious human rights abuses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Gainesville man pleaded guilty today to selling synthetic cannabinoids-commonly known as “spice" or “K2"-from the gas station he owned and operated with his business partner in Fauquier County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Lavon Wims, 27, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of six counts of Hobbs Act robbery, in connection with a string of robberies at Rochester area businesses, was sentenced to serve 108 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $4,013.70.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, held a hearing entitled, “Reaching Hard-to-Count Communities in the 2020 Census."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - James Douglas Maxwell, 26, of Hattiesburg, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to four months in prison, consecutive to the 11 months he has already served, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Following a three-day jury trial in U.S. District Court, Jeffery Lee Davis, 59, of Trenton, TN, was found guilty of possession of over 5 grams of actual methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty verdict today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Jeffrey Auerbach, a former registered representative for various broker-dealers, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud for his role in a scheme to take kickbacks from the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NXT-ID, a publicly listed company...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) released the following statement today praising House passage of H.R. 535, the PFAS Action Act of 2019, which passed the full House of Representatives by a vote of 247-159...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - DAVID QUY, 62, an Oklahoma City resident who practiced medicine in Warr Acres, has pleaded guilty to obtaining prescription opioids by fraud and also to identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Holton fired his gun near a crowd of people.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TX - The National Park Service (NPS) and U.S. Postal Service (USPS) are proud to showcase the release of a new Priority Mail stamp that depicts one of the park’s most iconic locations.
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Dear Mr. Malpass: We write to express our deep concern over certain hiring practices with respect to employment of persons from Taiwan that may be inconsistent with the World Bank Group Code of Conduct. While we understand that the World Bank Group (WBG) and other international financial institutions...
