News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Jonathan D. Larsen, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation ("IRS-CI"), announced that ANTONIO NIKC, a Chappaqua businessman, pled guilty...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs issued a Notice of Intent to release a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) entitled “Energy Infrastructure Development on Indian Lands - 2020" later this year.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: A new study showed that from 2007 to 2018, prices for hundreds of drugs rose many times faster than the rate of inflation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Lodge Pole man convicted at trial for assaulting his girlfriend on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 21 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Following new evidence that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has withheld documents from the Committee regarding the Trump Administration's "zero tolerance policy," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) sent a letter to DHS Acting Secretary Chad F. Wolf seeking clarification on whether all relevant documents related to family reunification has been produced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Terrell Moses, 36, of Toledo, Ohio was indicted on one count of felon in possession of a firearm and one count of possession of a firearm by a person with a prior misdemeanor of domestic violence conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Two Former Texas Executives Charged with Fraud and Obstruction of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Edward Shontel Beattie, age 47, of Los Angeles, California, entered a guilty plea to Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A), punishable by not less than 10 years and not more than life imprisonment, a fine up to $10,000,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A federal grand jury has indicted Courtney Williams, 30, of Decatur, Ill., on charges of child sexual exploitation. Specifically, the indictment charges Williams with enticement of a minor, attempted sexual exploitation of children, and sex trafficking of children, specifically a child under the age of 14, to engage in a commercial sex act.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today filed a modified substitute amendment to S. 2657, the vehicle for the broad, bipartisan American Energy Innovation Act she has introduced with Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. The modified substitute contains the text of 18 amendments-nine from Senators on each side of the aisle-that have been filed during this week’s floor debate.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to distributing fentanyl and cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY-17) released the following statement after President Trump signed emergency supplemental appropriations legislation to address the coronavirus outbreak.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - On March 3, 2020, United States District Judge Greg Guidry sentenced WAYNE ELFER, JR., to seventy-one months in the Bureau of Prisons for being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of the Federal Gun Control Act, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: FBI, Rexburg Police Seek Images in Missing Children’s Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, father and son have been sentenced to prison for their roles in exchanging $3.49 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for cash, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Yunquan Jiang, 48, a Chinese national residing in Fresno, charging him with cultivating and possessing with intent to distribute over 1,000 marijuana plants inside his residence, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MUSA HILL, 47, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised relase, for distributing cocaine, crack, heroin and counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Today, Republican Workforce Leaders on the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), issued the following statement in support of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule requiring additional financial reporting for labor union-controlled trusts such as workforce development programs funded by union worker dues...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Peter G. Strasser announced that JOHN RUDOLPH, age 46, of New Orleans, was sentenced for conspiracy to commit bank robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Nicholas Giammichele pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 21 months in prison for conspiring to distribute Schedule I synthetic cannabinoid controlled substances between 2017 and 2019, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
