News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Duianete Moore, 38, of St. Louis City, MO, pleaded guilty to federal felony charges of robbery, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Moore appeared in federal court today before United States District Judge Ronnie L. White who accepted his plea and set his sentencing date for April 7, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - A nuclear technology program at an area community college helps the EM Hanford Site ’s tank operations contractor maintain a stream of qualified applicants attracted by challenging and well-paying careers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of ROBERT LEE JOURDAIN, SR., 26, to one count of robbery. JOURDAIN entered his plea today before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota. On Dec. 19, 2019, JOURDAIN’s co-defendant COURTNEY JOHN BARRETT, JR., 30, also pleaded guilty to one count of robbery. The defendants will be sentenced at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that James Michael Wells, 68, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to serve life in federal prison for the April 2012 murders of two U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) employees, Electrician’s Mate First Class James Hopkins and retired Chief Boatswain’s Mate Richard Belisle.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - John Hudson, Sr., 31, of Washington, DC, was sentenced on January 6, 2020 to 60 months’ imprisonment and five years of supervised release after pleading guilty to one count of Felony Assault on a Police Officer While Armed back on Nov. 1, 2019. He was sentenced by the Honorable Rainey Brandt yesterday morning in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: PLANO, Texas - Three North Texas residents have been indicted for conspiring to pay for patient referrals in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown. The indictment was unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - TYRONE LEROY OUTLEY, 27, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 360 months in prison for possessing crack cocaine with intent to distribute, as well as possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: FBI Violent Crime Task Force Arrest New Orleans Man for His Alleged Involvement in Two Local Bank Robberies.
By State Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Distributed at least 16 pounds of meth, much of it while armed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced JOHN EDWIN KUHNEL, 40, was convicted on nine counts of receipt of child pornography and two counts of possession of child pornography. KUHNEL was found guilty following a two-day bench trial before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. KUHNEL will be sentenced at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - Senior U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm today sentenced Andre L. Williams, 30, of Kankakee, Ill., to 10 years in prison for his role in the July 2016 armed robbery of a Champaign Sprint store. Williams has been in the custody of the U.S. Marshals since his arrest in October 2018, and will be transferred to the federal Bureau of Prisons to serve his sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Defendants memorialized illegal firearm possession in music video posted to YouTube.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - Daniel Cervantes Felix, 18, of Maricopa, Arizona, was charged in a criminal complaint for his involvement in the possession with the intent to distribute 10 kilograms of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dr. Eugene Gosy, 59, of Clarence, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and healthcare fraud. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management Elko District Office announces the establishment of the new Pilot Valley Community Sand and Gravel Pit. The pit is in an existing sand and gravel pit disturbance just off the Pilot Road approximately 7 miles east from State Route 233. The material is mostly made up of sand-sized grains and could be used for landscaping or road maintenance. Permits for this new community pit will be available beginning January 13.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to new IRS reporting on audit rates...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Cape Cod National Seashore’s Annual Winter Film Festival kicks off on Sunday, January 26 at 1:30 pm at Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary Scalia: I write to strongly urge the Department of Labor (the Department) to reconsider the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs’ (OFCCP) recent decision not to use data collected from employers about wage gaps. OFCCP is tasked with ensuring federal contractors and subcontractors...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Bureau of Land Management wildland firefighters will be burning approximately 150 piles of brush and tree limbs at three locations on roughly 15 acres of public lands in Kern and Tulare counties near Lake Isabella starting this month. The goal of the prescribed burn is to reduce hazardous fuels and help protect communities. The timing of burn operations will depend on staffing, weather and air quality conditions.
