News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRANDON GINEYARD, 38, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man has pled guilty to three drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Martel DaAngelo Brown, also known as “Marty," 33, pled guilty to two counts of distribution of fentanyl and one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Forest M. Kirst, 63, of Fairbanks, Alaska, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline to serve one year and one day in federal prison, to be followed by a three year term of supervised release. Kirst was also ordered...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 10 a.m. (EDT) on the need for an ambitious...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing titled “Successful State Stewardship: A Legislative Hearing to Examine S. 614, the Grizzly Bear State Management Act." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Blacksburg, South Carolina man, Joe Barlow Owens, 44, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison on Wednesday, before U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today the Indictment of Steven M. Fitch, age 25, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, charging him in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska for being in unlawful possession of a destructive device. Fitch faces a maximum punishment of 10 years’ imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Today, at a press conference in Chicago, Attorney General William P. Barr announced updates to Operation Legend.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - At a press conference in Chicago today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced updates on Operation LeGend.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that two defendants have been arrested and charged in separate complaints with civil disorder for their roles in violent weekend protests in the City of Rochester. Adam Green, 20, of Dansville, NY, and Dallas Williams-Smothers, 20, of Rochester, NY, each face five years in prison if convicted.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former Lunenburg woman was arrested today in Wisconsin for stealing Social Security benefits.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr’s (D-NJ) opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at a Full Committee markup of 38 bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA - A Spokane, WA, man who admitted possessing firearms while trafficking methamphetamine after law enforcement officers found the items in his backpack was sentenced today to 12 years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man was sentenced to federal prison for a federal firearms conviction, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Kevin Lee Ramsey, 30, was sentenced to 46 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Ramsey also will serve three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A California lawyer pleaded guilty today in connection with a conspiracy to defraud a bank into processing more than $5 million in credit and debit card payments for a student loan debit relief merchant that had been terminated by the bank’s risk department.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 41-year-old Ft. Lauderdale, Florida woman has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking charges in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the need for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to immediately clear the market of products that failed to meet the deadline...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man has pled guilty to drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Maurice D. Grigsby, also known as “Ty," 35, pled guilty to two counts of distribution of crack cocaine.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the Committee advanced two energy bills to the full House of Representatives...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the Committee advanced two energy bills to the full House of Representatives...
