News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Brian C. Turner Named Assistant Director of the Operational Technology Division.
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a letter last week to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper expressing their concern over reports that the Department of Defense plans to significantly reduce U.S. military presence in West Africa. In the letter, the lawmakers wrote:
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio this afternoon, a federal jury convicted 49-year-old Luis Valencia of San Antonio, and his nephew, 34-year-old Mauricio Valencia of San Antonio, for their scheme to steal oil from oil companies and oilfield service companies operating in the South Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Jane Grace Dawson, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Timothy B. Pease, 30, of Kirkville, New York, was arrested yesterday on charges of transportation of child pornography following the execution of a search warrant at his residence by Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Dr. James E. Moylan, 57, a Philadelphia chiropractor and the former Chair of the Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustments, was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment, three years’ supervised release, $52,898...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: ORLANDO, FL- In a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Shooting Gallery Range Inc. - a shooting range based in Orlando, Florida - has agreed to pay an employee $30,000 in back wages and compensatory damages. The settlement is reflected in a U.S. District Court consent judgment issued Jan. 24, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of EDWARD LEE BELLANGER, 45, to three counts of assault of an intimate or dating partner. BELLANGER, who was initially charged on June 27, 2019, entered his plea today before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. BELLANGER is scheduled to be sentenced on May 26, 2020.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Washington - Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue announced USDA will begin taking applications for the second round of $550 million in ReConnect Program loan and grant funding on January 31. These funds will enable the federal government to continue to partner with the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: A man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported was sentenced today to almost three months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 28 Indictments charging 30 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two Detroit, Michigan men pled guilty to drug crimes today before United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON W.Va. - A Huntington man caught selling heroin last year in Huntington was sentenced today to 15 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Quentin J. Parker, 32, previously pled guilty to distribution of heroin. Parker also was sentenced for violating his supervised release and was sentenced to an additional 21 months in federal prison for a total sentence of 36 months.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Repeatedly contacted undercover agent who was posing as a father with young kids who could be sexually abused.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service invites the public to tour the Eisenhower home Presidents’ Day weekend, February 15 through 17. Normally closed to tours during the winter months of January and February, the Eisenhower home and facilities will be open and accessible by shuttle bus to celebrate the holiday weekend and the legacy and leadership by all the Presidents of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Mark F. Spindler, a certified public accountant, was found guilty of conspiring with Brian L. Ganos in a scheme to use front companies to obtain set-aside contracts intended for small businesses led by service-disabled veterans and disadvantaged individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Detroit, MI - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced today that it has reached a settlement with Joyce’s Farm Market, a produce store and greenhouse located in Ottawa Lake, Michigan to resolve an allegation that it refused service to an individual with a disability...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), and Peter C. Fitzhugh, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection watch commander was ordered today to serve 31 months in federal prison for committing a series of crimes, including operating an illegal gun-selling business, possessing machine guns and other prohibited firearms, failing to disclose his foreign financial interests and contacts in China in order to obtain a secret-level security clearance, and cheating on his federal income taxes.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. -On Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, Rep. Gerry E. Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, will hold a bipartisan hearing to examine who qualifies as a federal whistleblower; what protections such a designation affords to those who make allegations of waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement, and whether new legal provisions would improve whistleblower protections.
