News from November 2017
By USDA Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of six members to serve on the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board. The terms for these appointees are effective immediately and expire on June 30, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Diane Backis, age 51, of Athens, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for stealing $3.1 million from her employer Cargill, Inc. (“Cargill") and causing over $25 million in additional losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Ali Ratib Daham, 40, of Westbrook, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to SNAP and WIC trafficking conspiracy, money laundering and theft of federal MaineCare funds. Daham was charged by indictment on April 24, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: A 46 year old resident of Bay harbor was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles to serve one year in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release, for impersonating a U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Colbert County man pleaded guilty today to producing child pornography between 1997 and 1998, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Ray Parmer.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - Subcommittee leaders today introduced the bipartisan Disaster Recovery Reform Act (DRRA), a bill to address the rising costs of disasters in the United States and to reform federal disaster programs to ensure our communities are better prepared for future hurricanes, flooding, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: Jackson, TN - On Nov. 20, 2017, a federal grand jury returned a 14-count indictment charging five defendants with federal Hobbs Act Robbery in West Tennessee. D. Michael Dunavant,U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: Attempted Cover-Up Cost Cargill, Inc. More Than $25 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Neal Edmond Brown, 46, of Canyon, Texas, appeared this afternoon before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and pleaded guilty to a superseding information charging one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography, announced Erin Nealy Cox, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Diego Rojas, age 43, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 36 months’ imprisonment before United States District Court Judge James M. Munley for conspiring to defraud the government with respect to income tax claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: Defendant was recorded presiding over meeting of East Coast Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that two Mission, South Dakota, women charged with child abuse have been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By State Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a former Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, today made the following statement on Sunday’s presidential election in Honduras...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Ali Ratib Daham, 40, of Westbrook, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to SNAP and WIC trafficking conspiracy, money laundering and theft of federal MaineCare funds. Daham was charged by indictment on April 24, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, sent two new letters in light of a troubling new report in the Wall Street Journal that Lt. General...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant Hong Mei Xu was sentenced in the District Court of the Northern Mariana Islands to 12 months and one day in prison for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1960(b)(1)(B). The Defendant was indicted by a federal grand jury on August 5, 2016, and pled guilty on December 9, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Cardiovascular Consultants Heart Center (CVC Heart Center), a cardiology clinic with offices in Fresno and Clovis, and its shareholder physicians - Dr. Kevin Boran, Dr. Michael Gen, Dr. Rohit Sundrani, Dr. Donald Gregory, and Dr. William Hanks - will pay $1.2 million to resolve federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - A Buckhannon, West Virginia man has admitted today to distributing methamphetamines, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: MARSHALL, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Marshall Pottery, Inc., have reached a settlement agreement including a penalty of $545,160, after the death of an assistant plant manager.
