News from January 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, along with the Chairmen of the Subcommittees on Government Operations, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Economic and Consumer Policy, and Environment, announced that four Subcommittees will hold an in-depth, two-day series of hearings to examine the negative effects of regulations proposed by the Trump Administration relating to children’s poverty, housing, hunger, and health.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Reported Handguns As Stolen After Authorities Found Two of the Guns In the Possession of Juveniles.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Roger Thomas Clark Was a Key Figure in the Development of Silk Road, Advised Ross Ulbricht on All Aspects of the Criminal Enterprise, and Urged and Facilitated an Attempted Murder-for-Hire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An admitted member of the “East B Bop Milla Blood" street gang, who previously served time in state prison on firearm and assault charges and later arrested on federal firearm and drug charges, was sentenced today to 70 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr Appoints Timothy Shea Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On Jan. 28, 2020, following a six-day trial, a jury found Kendall Andrew Streb, of Hills, Iowa, guilty of three counts of child sex trafficking, two counts of distributing methamphetamine to children, one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, one count of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JAMAL SIMON was sentenced today by United States District Judge Paul A. Crotty to 115 months in prison for his participation in an identity theft scheme. SIMON previously pled guilty before Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Michael Rushmer, age 48, of Johnson City, New York, was sentenced today to 300 months in prison for sexually exploiting a child, and for distributing and possessing child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Impeachment should not distract lawmakers in Washington from real issues affecting Americans every day. A recent Gallup poll found that 58 million Americans cannot afford their prescription drugs due to the pharmaceutical giants increasing the prices of their most commonly taken drugs. Americans are...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Dear Acting Secretary Wolf: We write to inquire about the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s plans regarding the upcoming REAL ID Act implementation deadline. Under DHS’s stated plans, beginning Oct. 1, 2020, every air traveler 18 years of age and older will need a REAL ID-compliant driver’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS-A former Stockman Bank commercial loan assistant who admitted stealing money from the accounts of two customers, including a mentally incompetent elderly man, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison and five years of supervised release and ordered to pay $195,949 restitution, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: DEARBORN HEIGHTS, MI - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has determined that the Dearborn Heights School District violated whistleblower statutes by unjustly disciplining, publicly discrediting and terminating an employee who reported unsafe working conditions...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - United States Attorney David C. Weiss announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware collected $9,560,696.85 in criminal and civil actions during fiscal year 2019, which ended September 30th. Of that amount, $6,337,256.91 was collected through civil actions and $3,223,439.94 stemmed from fines and restitution ordered as part of criminal convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Defendant was on pre-trial release from Plymouth County Superior Court for various child exploitation offenses; including sexual assaults of girls aged four-to-eight years old.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Albert Thompson, 24, of Jackson, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Tom S. Lee to possessing a firearm after having been previously convicted of a felony crime, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Cynthia Williams-Singleton, 42, of Charlotte, was sentenced today to 27 months in prison and two years of supervised release for stealing more than $458,000 from the accounts of retirees, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term imposed, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. also ordered Williams-Singleton to pay $462,265.40 as restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: “Thank you, Chairman Neal, for calling this hearing today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Defendant convicted of producing child pornography and concealing evidence sentenced to life.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Today, Republican Workforce Leaders on the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), sent a third letter to Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee Chairwoman Frederica Wilson (D-FL), reiterating their request ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that RR & Tequila Limes LLC satisfied a reparation order in the amount of $11,600 issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving unpaid produce transaction(s).
