News from January 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Dear Acting Secretary Wolf, Acting Commissioner Morgan, and Port Director Williams...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Browning man today admitted assaulting a woman by throwing her to the ground, breaking her arm and injuring her shoulder, on the Blackfeet Reservation last year, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Lori Christine Woodson, 63, of Lawton, has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Bangor, Maine: A Bangor-area man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Bangor to possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Defendant arrested with drugs, a 9mm handgun, and an AR-15 assault rifle.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) this morning said the Natural Resources Committee is closely monitoring relief efforts following magnitude 6.4 and 5.6 earthquakes originating in southwestern Puerto Rico. Grijalva called on the Trump administration to disburse still unused Hurricane Maria disaster recovery funding and prepare to release earthquake disaster aid without delay.
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 Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a markup on Thursday, January 9, at 10 a.m. in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The Subcommittee will mark up nine bills to improve energy efficiency, promote clean energy, increase energy sector jobs and modernize our energy infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Ludlow woman was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield for bank fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a markup on Thursday, January 9, at 10 a.m. in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The Subcommittee will mark up nine bills to improve energy efficiency, promote clean energy, increase energy sector jobs and modernize our energy infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced COMULUS LATEZES BRIDGES, 41, of Douglasville, Georgia to 15 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $209,877 in restitution. On July 10, 2019, BRIDGES pled guilty to theft of federal childcare and adult food program funds.
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 DOE Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 14, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “A Public Health Emergency: State Efforts to Curb the Opioid Crisis."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 14, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “A Public Health Emergency: State Efforts to Curb the Opioid Crisis."
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Kicking off a season of “Experience the Night" programs, Tumacácori National Historical Park will be open until 8:30 p.m. on Friday, January 10th during the first full moon of 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: A Lewiston man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Portland for distributing cocaine base, commonly known as “crack," U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2020
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on Jan. 3, 2020, Chanel Traci Huff, age 34, of Maryville, Missouri, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Huff was sentenced to 120 months in prison to be followed by a term of supervised release of five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell handed down prison terms today to two Statesville-area men for the theft of four firearms, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western district of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2020
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm today sentenced a Champaign, Ill., man, Stephan Caamano, to 13 years in federal prison for trafficking at least 4.3 million counterfeit Xanax pills throughout the country and laundering the proceeds. Caamano has been ordered to pay more than $2.1 million he gained in profits through this scheme. Caamano was ordered to serve a term of three years supervised release upon completion of his prison sentence.
