News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: LAFAYETTE, MONROE, ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced the resolution of several cases this week, all of which are separately noted.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) -The Bureau of Land Management Billings Field Office is restricting access to the staircase and boardwalk that leads to the top of Pompeys Pillar. The restrictions will be in place while the BLM completes an analysis and stabilization of the pillar’s outcroppings. Visitors will be restricted from using the boardwalk until further notice.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: Have you heard of foldable smartphones? How about the flexible television screen that rolls up into a box? Or the ultrathin “wallpaper" TVs that are just millimeters thick?
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: TAMPA - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Tampa Special Agent in Charge (SAC) office graduated their annual Citizens’ Academy last week.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Stephen M. Hahn to request a briefing on the marketing status reporting requirements of generic drugs required by the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017 (FDARA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: MILLS, Wyo. - The Wyoming Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation has prepared the March snowmelt runoff forecasts and operating plans for the North Platte River Basin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today a $7,000 settlement with 44 Hawthorne, LLC and its owner, Alek Vienneau, to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims to the federal government after receiving impermissible excess rent payments from a low income tenant while participating in a federal housing subsidy program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Myra Mabry, age 50, of Catskill, New York, was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for unlawfully distributing opioids, for impersonating her patients and defrauding insurance companies as part of the opioids distribution scheme, and for attempting to obstruct the investigation into her criminal activities.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Stephen M. Hahn to request a briefing on the marketing status reporting requirements of generic drugs required by the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017 (FDARA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Daniel A. Parkhurst made his initial court appearance today related to a federal charge for abusive sexual contact during a flight from Seattle to Las Vegas, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Hector Manuel Bautista-Cardenas, a 31-year-old Mexican national illegally in the United States who is facing state charges for domestic violence was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tuesday.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: Bicameral Democratic health leaders wrote to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today urging the agency to withdraw its proposed policies included in a February proposed rule that would result in higher out-of-pocket costs for millions of Americans and thousands of low-income families losing their health insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: Seattle - The head of a drug distribution ring who was convicted at trial of drug and gun crimes was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to15 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. RHETT IRONS, 41, of Lynnwood, Washington was convicted on Dec. 12, 2019, of conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: An Evans man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for production and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: Former Acting Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Indicted on Theft of Government Property and Scheme to Defraud the United States Government.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Adrian D. Applewhite, 32, of Cheektowaga, NY, and Ronald L. Morris, 45, of Buffalo, NY, were arrested and charged by complaint with bank robbery and incidental crimes. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Mikal Jones, age 22, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on March 4, 2020, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By State Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) ruling that its chief prosecutor can open an investigation into alleged activities by U.S. personnel in Afghanistan.
