News from January 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today praised the announcement made by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding reforms to the Medicaid program that will allow more flexibility for states while they continue to care for and protect individual Americans and communities at most risk.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Bernard Jackson, 44, was found guilty on Jan. 29, 2020, following a two-day jury trial in federal court for Strangulation and Domestic Assault by a Habitual Offender. Senior United States Judge Laurie Smith Camp scheduled Jackson’s sentencing for April 27, 2020, at 9:00 a.m. Jackson faces up to ten years in prison on the Strangulation count.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - On Jan. 28, 2020, a Cuban national was sentenced to 57 months in prison for his participation in a for-profit alien smuggling conspiracy that transported Cuban nationals to Mexico and then into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Raphael Donzell Johnson, Jr., 40, of Moss Point, pled guilty yesterday before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to possession with intent to distribute heroin and methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: JEROME, Ida.- The National Park Service is opening up the newest visitor center in the nation at Minidoka National Historic Site on Feb. 22, 2020 from 1:00-5:00pm. Visitors are invited to join the public grand opening of the newly renovated visitor center. Historically, the visitor center was warehouse # 5 and served as the automotive repair shop. The Minidoka National Historic Site Visitor Center is located at 1428 Hunt Road, Jerome, Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A former Richmond man pleaded guilty today to distribution of drugs similar to fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MN: The National Park Service (NPS) at Voyageurs National Park seeks to lease an apartment unit or small home in the International Falls commuting area to accommodate a minimum of 2 - 4 summer staff. The total number of staff in the unit will be determined by number of bedrooms and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Concord, NH - Late yesterday, Travis Truell, 35 years-of-age, was arrested in the 200 block of Lake Street in Manchester, NH after a brief foot chase. Mr. Truell was being sought on a State of New Hampshire Parole Warrant. Truell was on parole as a result of being found guilty and sentenced in connection with an armed robbery offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - DEA Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon today announced the publication of the 2019 National Drug Threat Assessment, which outlines the threats posed to the United States by domestic and international drug trafficking and the abuse of illicit drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Cheswick, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months’ imprisonment and a three-year term of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $37,590 in restitution to the United States Postal Service, on his conviction of conspiracy, theft of government property and uttering and possessing false securities, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: EL CENTRO, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has approved the expansion and modernization of the United States Gypsum mine located on approximately 40 acres of public lands in southwestern Imperial County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Christopher Andrew Smith, age 30, of Beltsville, Maryland, after a two-day trial of involuntary manslaughter, reckless driving, driving without a license, and failure to place a child in a safety seat, in connection with a fatal car crash on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway on February 5, 2018, in which a three-year-old child was killed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - The former chief of Antigua’s Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSRC) has pleaded guilty for his role in connection with the Stanford International Bank (SIB) Ponzi scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Kwasi Francis (29, Ocala) today pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Victor Williams, 41, Melrose, Wisconsin, was sentenced on Tuesday, Jan. 28, by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 57 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Williams pleaded guilty to this offense on Nov. 13, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: This week, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, held a hearing entitled, “75 Years After the Holocaust: The Ongoing Battle Against Hate," in recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Concord, NH - Earlier this morning, Robert Ruggiero, 26 years-of-age, was arrested at Complete Labor in Manchester, NH. Mr. Ruggiero was being sought on a U.S. District Court, District of New Hampshire, Warrant for a supervised release violation. Ruggiero was being supervised as a result of being found guilty and sentenced in connection with a bank robbery offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Mahin Mojtahedzadeh, age 74, and a citizen of Iran, was sentenced today to time served (443 days in jail) for conspiring to unlawfully export gas turbine parts from the United States to Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Abdoulaye Coumbassa, 44, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to 24 months’ imprisonment, one year supervised release, and ordered to pay $224,478 in restitution to the IRS by United States District Court Judge R. Barclay Surrick for preparing and filing false tax returns for clients of his tax preparation business, Abbi Tax Services and Accounting, in Philadelphia.
By State Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today welcomed passage in the House of Representatives of two measures to rein in the Trump Administration’s use of military force that Congress has not authorized. Chairman Engel led the floor debate on Representative...
