News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Racquel Hamilton, 31, of Grand Island, was sentenced today in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. Senior United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf sentenced Hamilton to 9 years, 2 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. Hamilton will serve a four-year term of supervised release after completing her prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Joshua Eugene Burton (34, Missouri) has pleaded guilty to coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit activity and committing a child sex offense while registered as a sex offender. Burton faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today thanked President Donald Trump for signing the Presidential Transition Enhancement Act of 2019 into law. This bipartisan legislation that Chairman Johnson and Sen. Carper (D-Del.) introduced fixes issues that arose during the Obama-Trump presidential transition and codifies current ethics practices of presidential transition teams.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Fairfax medical doctor pleaded guilty today to illegally diverting Adderall and oxycodone to six different patients, including a patient who suffered from opioid addiction and later died of a drug overdose.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced that Aaron William Fein, 25 years old, of Grand Rapids, was sentenced today to 27 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney. Fein pled guilty in July to lying to FBI agents about renting and training with an AR-15. Upon his...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Fairfax medical doctor pleaded guilty today to illegally diverting Adderall and oxycodone to six different patients, including a patient who suffered from opioid addiction and later died of a drug overdose.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart joined Attorney General William P. Barr in announcing 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 USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 16 North Dakota counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers who suffered losses caused by five separate disaster events may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 110,000 metric tons of sorghum for delivery to China during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) today urged Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Andrew Saul to return telework options to SSA employees amid the outbreak of COVID-19.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Ranking Member Rick Crawford (R-AR) from today’s hearing entitled, “Funding a Robust Freight and Passenger Freight Rail Network":
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers responded to a fatal accident on the Foothills Parkway between Chilhowee Lake and Look Rock, near mile marker 13, at approximately 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3. A passenger in a vehicle, Maiah Reilich-Godino, age 18, of Eddington, ME, was sitting in an open...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Heidi Kalous (39, Dunedin) today pleaded guilty to conspiring and distributing a substance that contained a mixture of heroin, fentanyl, and acetyl fentanyl, causing the death of an individual. She faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) today introduced an emergency supplemental appropriations bill to fully address the coronavirus outbreak. The legislation is expected to be considered in the House on Wednesday.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
Release: FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION. DA-2020-07. March 3, 2020To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials Effective immediately, the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is amending entry requirements for importation into the United States of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that COLIN AKPARANTA, a correctional officer at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (“MCC"), which houses federal inmates in Manhattan, pled guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Kevin Nathaniel...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is expanding its highly successful weather camera safety program to Colorado.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Good morning. Welcome to all of my colleagues-particularly my friend, the Ranking Member, Mr. Smith of Nebraska-and the two distinguished panels of witnesses who have joined us here today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Blacksburg, South Carolina man, Joe Barlow Owens, 44, pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday, before U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: MIAMI−Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Miami Field Office announced that Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, 60, of Tracy, California was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Marcia G. Cooke to 37 months in prison, after previously pleading guilty to the federal charge of attempted destruction of an aircraft.
