News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON W.Va. - A formal postal employee who participated in a scheme to distribute marijuana mailed from California to Huntington over a period of several years was sentenced to federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Michael Mason Morton, 55, was sentenced to six months in federal prison after previously entering a guilty plea to distribution of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DEJUAN WARD, also known as “Hot Boi," 23, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 97 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a violent street gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Major Generic Pharmaceutical Company Admits to Antitrust Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Two Chinese Nationals Charged with Laundering Over $100 Million in Cryptocurrency From Exchange Hack.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney John H. Durham, Special Agent in Charge Phillip Coyne of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge Brian C. Turner of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong...
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding the ‘Uyghurs for Sale’ report, exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s mass transfer of Uyghur Muslims to factories across China.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Harvey Lyn Tillman, 38, of Perdido, Alabama, was sentenced on Feb. 26, 2020, for being a felon in possession of firearms. He entered a guilty plea to the charge in November of 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury in Chicago has convicted a Chinese national of laundering illegal narcotics proceeds on behalf of drug traffickers in Mexico.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Add yet another use for cornstarch-besides thickening soups and gravies, making adhesives, soothing skin and removing stains.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Rashaun Flemming, age 31, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Feb. 27, 2020, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) and Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Braun (R-IN), Mike Rounds (R-SD), John Boozman (R-AR), and Roger Wicker (R-MS) sent a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regarding efforts to assess and modernize the NRC's nuclear safety inspection program, known as the Reactor Oversight Process.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - The Center for American Progress (CAP) released a new report today highlighting the efforts of House Democrats “to reverse a decade of legislative obstruction and stagnation in U.S. land, water, and wildlife conservation." The report contrasts the actions taken by the Democratic majority...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today following breaking news that the Supreme Court would hear Republicans’ partisan health care lawsuit seeking to strike down the Affordable Care act.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - For your planning purposes, Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) announced the Subcommittee will meet on Friday, March 6, 2020, at 10:00 a.m. in Baldwin Park, California, to conduct a roundtable on “America’s Water Resources Infrastructure: ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Presidential Task force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives announced a series of field consultations and listening sessions to occur across the United States in the coming months.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, March 2, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $1.77 million to North Carolina as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: - The U.S. Census Bureau has begun counting people living in the U.S. territories of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands for the 2020 Census.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Dr. Eric Math, M.D., 51, of Reno, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute hydrocodone and oxycodone, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A USPS employee pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to stealing approximately $7,000 in government money.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Bluefield woman pled guilty today for her participation in a drug trafficking operation (DTO) in Raleigh and Mercer Counties, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Marika Davis, 38, of Bluefield, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute a quantity of methamphetamine. Davis was charged as a result of a long-term, multi-state, investigation known as Operation Shutdown Corner.
