News from January 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO), and Republican Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to request a review of the billions of dollars in grant funding dedicated to combatting the opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Streamwood man was sentenced today to nearly seven years in federal prison for enticing a 16-year-old boy to produce sexually explicit videos of himself.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Stole funds from two dozen clients - Some of the money was federal Social Security payments.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) recently published a report on advances in the use of scenario planning as a tool to evaluate the vulnerability of park features and develop potential management actions in light of climate change.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: SEATTLE, Wash. - On Jan. 24, officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested Medardo Cruz-Ventura, a Mexican citizen, who is an illegally present criminal alien that has been removed from the United States on multiple occasions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Christopher Mesick, 38 of Jeffersonville, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury sitting in Burlington with being a felon in possession of a firearm and with being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO), and Republican Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to request a review of the billions of dollars in grant funding dedicated to combatting the opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell woman pleaded guilty yesterday in connection with embezzling approximately $182,000 from a veterinary hospital that employed her.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon Fremin announced that United States District Court Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced Ivan Alexi Mejia-Alvarado, age 44, of Honduras, to serve 21 months in federal prison following his conviction for illegal re-entry into the United States by a removed alien. The Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former Northern Virginia resident pleaded guilty today to distribution of heroin that resulted in the death of a Leesburg man in March 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - A federal jury deliberated for less than thirty minutes before returning a guilty verdict late Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 22, 2020, against Timothy Brandon Fredrickson, 30, of Davenport Iowa, for sexual exploitation of a child. Sentencing for Fredrickson has been scheduled for June 2, 2020, at the U.S. Courthouse in Peoria.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, respectively, today released the following statement after holding an all-senator briefing with top administration health officials regarding the novel coronavirus outbreak that was first detected in Wuhan, China...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former Assistant Director of Real Estate working for the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with accepting $50,000 in bribes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday afternoon, a federal jury found DWAYNE EDWARD RASMUSSEN, 55, of Oklahoma City, guilty of committing three bank robberies in Oklahoma City and Chickasha, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Officers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Idaho Falls Regional Airport discovered a loaded firearm in the carry-on luggage of female traveler ticketed for travel to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Thursday evening.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Kyle Inselmann, 34, of Steeleville, Illinois, has been sentenced to serve 120 months in federal prison for knowingly possessing a pair of short-barreled shotguns in furtherance of drug trafficking activities. Inselmann pleaded guilty to the charges last September.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Defendant stole money from vulnerable elderly victims by tricking them into turning over bank information or sending money directly.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) today urging the government watchdog to conduct an updated review of the National Telecommunications and Information...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two officials from the local Iron Workers union pleaded guilty today for their role in a brutal assault on a group of non-union ironworkers in Dyer, Indiana. The attack, which left multiple workers with serious injuries, was part of an effort to obtain a contract for the union to assist with the construction of the Plum Creek Christian Academy, a school affiliated with the Dyer Baptist Church.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2020
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced that the main access road into the Cataloochee area, Cove Creek Road, will be closed by the North Carolina Department of Transportation to conduct road repairs from February 10 through May 20.
