News from January 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The top Republican on the Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statement after President Trump signed into law the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - After demanding and starting a federal jury trial, Arnold Eden, 52, has pleaded guilty to bank robbery before the completion of proof in the case. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty plea today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, launched a new investigation into extremely troubling reports about the underage use of dating applications; and inappropriately selling or sharing personal data.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after Republican Members of the Committee met with EU Commissioner for Trade Phil Hogan...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A federal jury found a Detroit, Michigan man guilty of conspiracy to distribute heroin, using and carrying a firearm during the heroin conspiracy, and tampering with a witness, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Curtis Watson, also known as “LOW," conspired with other drug traffickers from Detroit, Michigan and Charleston, West Virginia, to distribute in excess of 700 grams of heroin in the Southern District of West Virginia.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, United States Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette issued the following statement applauding the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for selecting the United States to host the 2021 Nuclear Power Ministerial...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A member of a Camden drug-trafficking organization pleaded guilty today to distributing significant amounts of illegal drugs in Camden, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) released the following statement regarding House Democrats’ list of infrastructure principles announced today...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Carnegie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 144 months imprisonment and five years supervised release on his conviction of possession with the intent to distribute a kilogram or more of heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Victor Herbert Carroll, 47, of Orange Beach, Alabama, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on Jan. 29, 2020. Carroll pled guilty in July of 2019 to three charges-possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, carrying a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking felony, and felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Defendant sold counterfeit Lawful Permanent Resident cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO - After a challenging multi-year, inter-agency investigation, utilizing technology capabilities, intelligence gathering, and community outreach, law enforcement partners on the San Diego Tunnel Task Force have exposed the longest illicit cross-border tunnel ever discovered along the Southwest border.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Seth Weidemann has been sentenced for traveling to Atlanta to engage in sex acts with a person he believed to be an 11-year-old girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - All 34 individuals have admitted to their roles in an oxycodone disitribution operation spanning two states and four North Central West Virginia counties that resulted in a 129-count federal indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, sentenced ALAN SIGFRED ANDERSEN, 57, of Elizabeth City, NC to 120 months’ imprisonment, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release. ANDERSEN pled guilty on Nov. 13, 2019 to one count of possession of child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Homeland Security began processing Brazilian migrants for return to Mexico under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). The number of Brazilian nationals apprehended at the Southwest border increased by more than eleven fold from FY2018 to FY2019. The United States ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE, Jan. 29, 2020 – Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Washington State Director Kirk Pearson announced USDA has invested $2.4 million in a high-speed broadband infrastructure project that will create or improve e-Connectivity for approximately 250 households and home-based businesses in rural Mason County in southwest Washington. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: COLUMBIA, Ky., Jan. 29, 2020 – Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald “DJ” LaVoy announced USDA has invested $55.3 million in four, high-speed broadband infrastructure projects in rural Kentucky. These projects, part of the first round of USDA’s ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: GOLDEN VALLEY, Ariz., Jan. 29, 2020 – Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Arizona State Director Jack R. Smith announced USDA has invested $1.6 million in a high-speed broadband infrastructure project that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for 1,492 rural households, ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued the following statement after President Donald J. Trump signed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
