News from January 2020
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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on Jan. 27, 2020, Roland Alston, age 35, was sentenced to 52 months in jail by Chief Judge Geoffrey Crawford in United States District Court in Rutland, Vermont. Alston had previously pleaded guilty to possessing a handgun...
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 DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, February 5, at 10 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building on the Natural Gas Act. The hearing is entitled, “Modernizing the Natural Gas Act to Ensure it Works for Everyone."
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: “There is no legitimate reason for anyone to possess or distribute fentanyl analogues. They are weapons of mass destruction, capable of killing a human being almost immediately upon ingestion or contact in extremely minute amounts.".
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, February 5, at 10 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building on the Natural Gas Act. The hearing is entitled, “Modernizing the Natural Gas Act to Ensure it Works for Everyone."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury in Baltimore, today convicted Davon Carter, age 39, and Clifton Mosley, age 41, both of Baltimore, for two counts of conspiracy to murder a witness and one count each of witness retaliation murder and witness tampering murder, related to the murder of Latrina Ashburne...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Brendon Rothrock, age 21, of Kannapolis, North Carolina, formerly of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Jan. 28, 2020, by a federal grand jury on child exploitation charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Manufacturing an Unregistered Firearm and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that two men involved in a New Haven-based drug trafficking organization were sentenced today in Hartford federal court. U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant sentenced MARVIN SPRUILL, 27, of West Haven, to 57 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release, and CARNELL EDWARDS, 49, of Bridgeport, to 30 months of imprisonment and five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Authorities this morning arrested 16 defendants linked to an Inland Empire-based drug trafficking ring that used the U.S. Postal Service and private vehicles to ship large quantities of cocaine and other narcotics to buyers across the country.
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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: CONTACT: Barbara Burns. PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Andrew Campbell, 33, formerly of Albion, NY, now living in North Carolina, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 78 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: “The Department of Justice learned this morning that the Holman facility was to be closed and that the majority of the prisoners housed in that prison would be transferred to other facilities. I am disappointed that we were not privy to the decision to close Holman at the time such a decision was being considered. We will continue to forge ahead in our good faith negotiations.".
By EPA Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced that next week’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing will be held on Wednesday, February 5, at 10:30 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Vaping in America: E-Cigarette Manufacturers’ Impact on Public Health."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jason Bassett, 43, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of filing a false tax return, was sentenced to serve six months in prison and six months home confinement by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Wolford.
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced that next week’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing will be held on Wednesday, February 5, at 10:30 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Vaping in America: E-Cigarette Manufacturers’ Impact on Public Health."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: FARGO - United States Attorney Drew H. Wrigley announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of North Dakota completed its investigation and entered into a settlement agreement with North Dakota State University to resolve allegations that the Sanford Health Athletic Complex violated...
