News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - One resident of Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of Social Security fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Knoxville, Tenn. - Following a four-day trial in the United States District Court at Knoxville, a jury convicted Charles Edward Mason, 53, of Clinton, Tennessee. Evidence presented at trial showed Mason was in possession of firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon, possessed with intent to distribute 5 grams or more of methamphetamine, brandished firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possessed firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE, Wash. - A 36-year-old resident of Tulalip, Washington, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 85 months in prison for four federal felonies related to illegal gun possession and trafficking, announced Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announces a 60-day public comment period for the Bella Vista Water District draft repayment contract. This draft contract provides project water service and facilities repayment pursuant to the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act).
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: - The U.S. Census Bureau released the first statistics from the 2017 Economic Census of Island Areas. Island and local area estimates are now available for American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI). The data for Puerto Rico will be released in December of 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - As the Hanford Site transitions to 24/7 operations, its fire department recently debuted a new ladder truck that will play a crucial role in emergency responses.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - A successful collaboration between EM and Florida International University (FIU) focused on developing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students has expanded to include DOE’s Office of Legacy Management (LM).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Devante Maddox, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to three years probation for his role in an oxycodone distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announces negotiation sessions for the City of West Sacramento’s water service contract. The dates and times of the negotiations are as follows...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - Have you wanted to become more involved with your public lands? Have you wanted to help the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) mission of sustaining the health, diversity, and productivity of public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations? You can!
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are today continuing to press a subject of their bipartisan investigation into syndicated conservation easements transactions, which may have allowed some taxpayers to game the tax code for illegal profit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, as part of the House Judiciary Committee's lawsuit to compel the Trump Administration to produce grand jury material related to former Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation, the General Counsel to the House of Representatives informed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that the Trump Administration is once again taking positions during the President’s impeachment trial that fundamentally contradict what it has argued in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux City, Iowa, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on Jan. 28, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: During an online chat Painter wrote that he wanted to have sex with girls between six and eleven years old.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Michael J. De Palma, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI); and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office announced that on...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released the following statement regarding reports that Charles Lieber, the head of Harvard University’s chemistry department, was arrested on charges of allegedly lying to the Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health regarding ties to the Chinese communist government.
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary Pompeo and Secretary Esper...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A North Carolina man pleaded guilty today to a fraud in which a Lenexa company he worked for spent more than $685,000 to buy electrical and wire cable that the man sold to another company and pocketed the money, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Licensed firearms dealer Christopher Koninsky, who allowed multiple individuals to buy guns for other people, has been sentenced to federal prison. Those guns were sold at his business, Team 88 Enterprises, and trafficked to several states outside Georgia and into the hands of criminals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Netzahualcoyotl Cerna, 40, of Reedley, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to 19 years in prison for carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it, and being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and DEA Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux announced.
