News from April 2014
By USDA Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
Release: Spring is here and brings with it many fresh healthy foods, including blueberries. Known for their antioxidants, vitamins and fiber, blueberries are a healthy option that is becoming more popular around the world and the U.S. blueberry industry is taking advantage of this demand with the help of the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Market Access Program (MAP).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on April 14, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: PLANO, Texas - Gary Lynn McDuff, 59, was sentenced to 300 months in prison today for his role in conspiring to defraud investors of almost $11 million in an investment fraud scheme and laundering the proceeds in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales. United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Pharmaceutical company Astellas Pharma US, Inc., will pay $7.3 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in connection with its marketing and promoting of the drug Mycamine for pediatric use. The settlement was announced today by United States Attorney Zane David Memeger and the Justice Department. Astellas Pharma US, Inc., located in Northbrook, Illinois, manufactures and sells pharmaceutical drugs, including Mycamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss - H. Claiborne Frazier, of Jackson, was sentenced to serve 60 months in federal prison and pay a $10,000 fine for his role in a conspiracy with his brother, Austin W. Frazier, and his father, C.E. Frazier, Jr., to commit bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: MUSKOGEE, Okla. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that the following individuals were arraigned on April 15, and 16, 2014, on charges of Conspiracy To Possess With Intent To Distribute And Distribute Five (500) Grams Or More Of Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A).
By USDA Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Martin Christopher Edwards of Napa, California, pleaded guilty yesterday to mail fraud and tax evasion, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: A 29-year-old Detroit man was sentenced today in federal court to 116 years in prison for his role in six cellular telephone store robberies, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Attempted Commercial Sex Trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for First Degree Burglary and Attempted Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Anthony C. Y. Cheng, Sr., and his son, Anthony R. Cheng, Jr., pled guilty today to federal charges stemming from an undercover investigation into a scheme to illegally generate business through the District of Columbia taxicab industry, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Tyrelis Austin, 22, of Rochester, N.Y., was charged by criminal complaint with the robbery of three Tops Marketplace stores in 2012, 2013 and 2014. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: A Twinsburg man was sentenced to nearly five years in prison and ordered to pay approximately $1.2 million in restitution for his role in a tax-fraud conspiracy, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Kathy Enstrom, IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: A new report from the non-partisan Congressional Research Service chronicles the continued decline of oil and natural gas production on federal lands under the Obama administration, providing greater evidence that America’s energy boom is occurring in spite of the president’s policies not because of...
By State Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) will lead a bipartisan congressional delegation to Ukraine from Monday, April 21 to Wednesday, April 23. In Kiev, the delegation will meet with U.S. and senior Ukrainian officials to assess the effect of ongoing U.S. efforts to support Ukraine.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decision to uphold the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 2012 mercury and air toxics standards (MATS) rule, otherwise known as Utility MACT, for coal- and oil-fired power plants.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Energy Department’s commitment to helping U.S. businesses save money by saving energy, the Department’s Better Buildings Alliance is supporting the Lighting Energy Efficiency in Parking (LEEP) Campaign. To date, more than 100 U.S. businesses and organizations are participating...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: Homestead/Key West: Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks will have free admission April 19 and 20, opening weekend of National Park Week.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Mansfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet. Mathew Taylor Cox, 49, of Mansfield...
