News from August 2018
By USDA Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
Release: Aug. 14, 2018, Washington D.C. - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is issuing a final rule outlining the conditions under which USDA will pay indemnity to farms affected by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). It includes updates to USDA’s February ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: The former National Director of Anti-Corruption in Colombia and a foreign attorney pled guilty today in federal court in Miami for their participation in a conspiracy to launder money with the intent to promote foreign bribery.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced the selection of 28 projects totaling $38 million to support early-stage research and development of innovative hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. The Secretary is in Golden, Colorado touring the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced that Cory Ray Christie, age 38, of Guyton, Georgia, was sentenced yesterday in federal court for bank robbery. On Aug. 23, 2017, Christie pleaded guilty to bank robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Receipt of Child Pornography was sentenced on Aug. 13, 2018, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: Five others have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a multi-agency gang investigation.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Lower Sonoran Field Office is seeking public comment on the direct sale of a 16.87-acre public land parcel located southeast of Phoenix in Gila County, Arizona. The sale would transfer the parcel to private ownership.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: America’s national parks inspire us through their unique beauty and storied pasts. Gigi Love has captured the stories of these special landscapes in song. On Friday, Aug. 24, at 7:30 p.m. come to the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center in Rocky Mountain National Park to join Love for a live acoustic performance.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: Patrick Steven Hyde and Crystal Dione Hyde Both Face Possible Federal Prison Time.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: Queens, N.Y. - An exhibit showing the transformation of religious offerings collected from monthly cleanups at Jamaica Bay will be on display at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center starting Aug. 19. The exhibit will be up for about two months.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge James Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division announced today that Dolores Plumer, 39, of Orchard Park, N.Y., was charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Vincent Logan Baugh, age 28, of Grove Hill, Alabama was sentenced today after earlier pleading guilty to two counts charging violations of 18 USC Section 2252A(a)(2), Receipt of Child Pornography, two counts charging violations of 18 USC Section 2251(a), Production of Child Pornography, and one count charging 18 USC 2252A, Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: Previously Lost License for Opioid Theft in 2008.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - An illegal alien found in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to six months incarceration to be followed by immediate deportation on his conviction of Illegal re-entry after deportation, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, Ernest Keith. 51, of Charlotte, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. to 41 months in prison and two years of supervised release in connection with a fraudulent shipping services scheme, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Cogburn also ordered the defendant to pay restitution totaling $721,707.37.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Porcupine, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Sacramento, California, and Dayton, Ohio, has pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh to a violation of the federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: Two Northwest Ohio men was indicted for receiving and distributing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - A multi-agency Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) Team has begun working with a CAL FIRE team to assess the impacts of the Carr wildfire on the watershed. The team will evaluate post-fire threats due to flooding, debris flows, and hazard trees, as well as impacts to vegetation and wildlife.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Alan F. Luboff, 51, of Parkland, Florida, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. to 15 months in prison and three years of supervised release on wire fraud charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Cogburn also ordered the defendant to pay restitution in the amount of $119,900.
