News from March 2020
By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - This week, U.S. Senator Patty Murray has been working to hold the Trump Administration accountable for its chaotic and delayed response to the novel coronavirus and pushing to get state and local health departments the resources they need as quickly as possible.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A jury on Tuesday convicted a Billings man accused of bringing large quantities of methamphetamine to the community for redistribution and possessing firearms to further the crime, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Chief U.S. District Judge Leonard P. Stark sentenced Michael Henry, a 40 year-old Rehoboth Beach resident, to 111 months in prison for possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute it, as well as possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Rob Portman (R-OH), applauded the Senate passage of their bipartisan legislation to determine if office space leased by the federal government is owned by foreign...
By State Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following opening remarks today at a full committee markup of H.Res. 512, H.R. 5408, H.Res. 742, H.R. 5664, H.Res. 720, H.R. 2166, H.R. 2847, H.Res. 723, H.Res. 809, H.Res. 458, H.R. 1611...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed, on a bipartisan 415 to 2 vote, emergency supplemental appropriations legislation to address the coronavirus outbreak. The legislation now heads to the Senate for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Mariam Taha Thompson, 61, formerly of Rochester, Minnesota, was charged today in the District of Columbia with transmitting highly sensitive classified national defense information to a foreign national with apparent connections to Hizballah, a foreign terrorist organization that has been...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Teresa Johnson (53, Lecanto) to five years’ probation, with four months of home detention, for conspiring with a local doctor to commit health care fraud. As part of her sentence, the court also ordered Johnson to pay restitution to the defrauded federal health care programs and, entered a money judgment of more than $5,700, representing a portion of Johnson’s health care fraud proceeds.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee and the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget requests for export and finance agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-John James Shore, IV, 55, of Beaverton, Oregon, pleaded guilty today to one count of distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Michael Steen pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he supplied fentanyl that led to the fatal overdose of a 33-year-old Ramona, California woman on July 9, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Reno resident was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release for making phone calls in which he threatened to shoot a bank manager, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DANNY L. LETARD (“LETARD"), age 57, of Hammond, Louisiana, was sentenced today for Theft of Government Funds, announced United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: FBI Cincinnati Presents Director’s Community Leadership Award to Laith Khalaf.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Ryan James Cook, 35, and Richard Gordon Bashaw, 49, both of Grangeville, Idaho, and Justina Maemarie Foster, 39, of Lewiston, Idaho, were arrested on Feb. 27, 2020, on federal gun and drug charges, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. The charges stem from a Feb. 19, 2020, eight-count indictment filed in U.S. District Court by a federal grand jury sitting in Coeur d’Alene.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging KENNETH RAY MILLER, 58, with illegal manufacturing, dealing, transporting, and possession of explosives and illegal possession of firearms. MILLER made his initial appearance earlier today before Magistrate Judge Hildy Bowbeer in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RICARDO REYES, also known as “Rick the Ruler," 40, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to offenses related to the possession and trafficking of narcotics and firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking good homes for wild horses and burros during its adoption and sale event planned for March 13-15 at Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, 3142 State Highway 83, in Sonoita.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
Release: Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH), Chair of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's Member Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: In Waco this morning, a federal judge sentenced 51-year-old Shozo “Sho" Tanaka to 40 years in federal prison for producing and possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, FBI San Antonio Division Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs and Temple Police Chief Jim Tobin.
