News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 38-year-old Katy, Texas man has been indicted for federal drug trafficking and firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced DEA Special Agent in Charge, Steven S. Whipple and U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS-A Billings man who admitted possessing methamphetamine for distribution was sentenced today to 48 months in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A Lexington, Kentucky man, Devaun Laquis Robertson, 27, was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday, to 68 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge Greg VanTatenhove, for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is proposing to acquire the Galena Lode Claim (U.S. Mineral Survey 1747, Alaska), in exchange for a parcel of federal land adjoining U.S. Survey 4334, Alaska, described as Lots 1 and 2, U.S. Survey 14500. The Galena Lode Claim is located off of Skyline Drive and is undeveloped...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, introduced an amendment to the American Energy Innovation Act that would direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement a phase down of the production ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - In two separate indictments, a former Kentucky-based tobacco warehouse owner and two tobacco producers were indicted Thursday, and charged with engaging in a variety of crop insurance fraud and money laundering schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: DOJ Files Suit against Spine Device Manufacturer and Executives Alleging Kickbacks to Surgeons through Sham Consulting Payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser of the Eastern District of Louisiana joined Attorney General William P. Barr on March 3, 2020 to announce the Department of Justice’s National Nursing Home Initiative, which will coordinate and enhance civil and criminal efforts to pursue nursing homes that provide grossly substandard care to their residents.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - This morning, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) joined New Day on CNN to discuss the latest developments with coronavirus.
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 Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- E&C GOP Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) went on “Bill Hemmer Reports" to share updates on the coronavirus and recommendations to mitigate the spread of the virus.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that David William Wilcox, age 48, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Failure To Register As Sex Offender, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2250(a)(1), 2250(a)(2)(B) and 2250(a)(3), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 27-count third superseding indictment charging George H. Moses, 50, of Rochester, NY, with 25 counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, federal program fraud, aggravated...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Everett, Pa., has pleaded guilty in federal court to various counts related to firearms stolen from the National Firearms and Ammunition Destruction Branch (NFAD), United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Chattanooga, Tenn. - On March 4, 2020, Mark Douglas Gould, 50, currently of Port Orchard, Washington, was sentenced by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 29-year-old Tyler, Texas, man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking crimes in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Martin Escobar, age 57, of Youngstown, Ohio, was indicted by a federal grand jury in a 145-count indictment charging the unlawful distribution and dispensation of controlled substances, causing the deaths of two patients, maintaining a drug-involved premises, health care fraud, and unlawfully distributing and dispensing a controlled substance to a person under the age of 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that PRINCETAFARI VIDAL, also known as “Prince," 38, of Norwich, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 33 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for his role in a southeastern Connecticut drug trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A resident of Pittsburgh has been sentenced in federal court to two-and-a-half years (30 months) in prison and fined $10,000 on his conviction of tax evasion, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A U.S. Immigration Judge in Memphis, Tennessee has issued a removal order against a German citizen and Tennessee resident, based on his service in Nazi Germany in 1945 as an armed guard of concentration camp prisoners in the Neuengamme Concentration Camp system (Neuengamme).
