News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Blair County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of tax evasion and wire fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Savannah River Site (SRS) workers safely and successfully repackaged tritium gold trap cylinders, a mixed waste, for future disposition offsite recently.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announcement allowing dairy farmers to sign up for much-needed support through the new-and-improved Margin ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Iordan Bossev, age 21, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pled guilty in Syracuse to traveling in interstate commerce to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and an additional count of persuading, inducing and enticing an individual to travel in interstate commerce to engage in...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Isaiah Davis, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on drug and firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) announced the introduction of the Food Labeling Modernization Act of 2018 (H.R. 5425) today, which would update front-of-package labeling requirements in order to prevent misleading health claims and require updates to the ingredient list on packaged foods and other labeling requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice, FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) announced the results of a four-day long, nationwide law enforcement operation, called Operation Disarray, which targeted vendors and buyers of opioids and cocaine on the Darknet. This operation was the first coordinated action by the new Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) Team.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal firearm laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: A federal court permanently enjoined a Walton, New York, creamery and its owner from manufacturing and distributing adulterated food, the Department of Justice announced today. In a complaint filed March 19 at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the United States alleged that ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: For 45 days in February and March, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration surged its enforcement and administrative resources to identify and investigate prescribers and pharmacies that dispensed disproportionately large amounts of drugs. The ultimate goal of the surge was remediating or removing those ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice today filed a civil action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California against the State of California, Governor of California Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr., and the California State Lands Commission, seeking a declaration that California Senate Bill ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: The United States, together with the State of Indiana, announced today that U. S. Steel Corporation (U. S. Steel) has agreed to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act and Indiana law by undertaking substantial measures to improve its wastewater processing monitoring system at its steel manufacturing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: A military employee who resided in Maryland before moving to Japan in November 2017 has been arrested and indicted for the production, transportation, and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued the following statement on the Department of Justice’s new lawsuit against the State of California: “I regret the need to file yet another lawsuit against the state of California today. The Department of Justice is fighting every day to take illegal guns and drugs ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced that the Department of Justice has filed a motion to participate in settlement discussions and as a “friend of the court” in the ongoing Multi-District Litigation against opioid manufacturers and distributors.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: An Alabama man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for producing child pornography between 1997 and 1998, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town of the Northern District of Alabama.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a final rule that increases the threshold for commercial real estate transactions requiring an appraisal from $250,000 to $500,000.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced its approval of the application under section 3 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 by Arvest Bank, Fayetteville, Arkansas and its parent companies, Arvest Bank Group, Inc. and Arvest Holdings, Inc., both of Bentonville, Arkansas, to acquire Bear State ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, NJ – Two companies that operate 17 Houlihan’s franchisee restaurants in New Jersey and New York and their owner Arnold Runestad will pay $5,000,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to 1,471 current and former employees to resolve a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit alleging violations of the ...
By DOT News Wire | Apr 2, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on April 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
