News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Former Operator of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinics Agrees to Pay $1.85 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Concerning Veterans’ Wait Times.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron today sentenced Jason Matthew Zeller (42, Orlando) to 30 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography and for failing to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Justin E. Herdman, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that a federal grand jury in Cleveland returned four separate multi-count drug indictments charging 35 individuals with conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Defendant allegedly used Snapchat to engage in sexually explicit video-chats with minor children.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two Cherry Creek, South Dakota, men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Second Degree Murder, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, and Tampering with Evidence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to distributing fentanyl.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released thefollowing statement on the absence of Republican Committee members from the scheduled Indigenous Peoples Subcommittee oversight hearing, “The Irreparable Environmental and Cultural Impacts of the Proposed Resolution Copper Mining Operation".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A defendant known as “Shadow" was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 30 years in prison for participating in a racketeering conspiracy and murder through the use of a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announces that a federal grand jury sitting in Greenville indicted two individuals on numerous robbery and firearm offenses, stemming from a string of armed robberies of local businesses across six counties in July of 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against Keyshaun Jenkins, 19, of St. Clair County, Illinois, Missouri, on multiple criminal counts stemming from a Feb. 28, 2020 carjacking.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation to provide support for local communities facing rising water levels, coastal erosion, and flooding that...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Domestic Assault by an Habitual Offender, Child Abuse, and Possession of a Controlled Substance With Intent to Distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A California lawyer and former Rialto Police officer was sentenced this afternoon to 24 months in federal prison for possessing unregistered firearms, silencers and a hand grenade inside his pickup truck during a law enforcement stop.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON--As part of its efforts to implement the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, the Bureau of Land Management today released a draft list of public lands with limited or restricted public access for hunting, fishing or other outdoor recreational opportunities, along...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: YUMA, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Yuma Field Office announced that Senator Wash North Shore Campground is closed due to varying degrees of flooding from recent rainfall. Yuma Field Office staff has surveyed the site and made the decision to close the area because of public safety concerns. Visitors who were planning on recreating in this area should be aware of conditions and make alternate plans.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Clinton man previously convicted in a federal court of cocaine conspiracy was indicted today for again committing cocaine offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on March 11, 2020, Matthew Sinclair, 24, and Jorge Delaoz, 51, were arrested and charged with violations of the federal Controlled Substances Act in connection with drug activity at 50 Central Street in Brattleboro, Vermont.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the Senate voted to confirm James Danly to be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on a bipartisan basis. Danly will serve the remainder of a term that ends on June 30, 2023.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Kumanaraj Thurairajah Picked Up Six People Who Had Entered the U.S. Illegally.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Following President Trump signing their bipartisan Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act (H.R. 4998 ) into law to help secure America’s telecommunications supply chain, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), and Reps. Doris Matsui (D-CA) and Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement...
