News published on Federal Newswire in August 2018

News from August 2018


The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Aug. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Aug. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Aug. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: BOSTON - A licensed nurse was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for tampering with oxycodone by stealing pills from a nursing home where she worked and attempting to conceal the theft by replacing the medication with other medications.


Defendant sentenced for stealing Social Security benefits

News Release: ATLANTA - Monty Jack Stansell has been sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to stealing his deceased mother’s Social Security benefits.


FBI Arrests 18 on Federal Drug Trafficking and Firearms Charges

News Release: CLEVELAND, MS-The FBI has arrested 18 individuals on federal drug trafficking and weapons charges in the Mississippi Delta. The announcement was made at a press conference today in Cleveland by Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Mississippi Christopher Freeze, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi Chad Lamar, and Cleveland Police Chief Charles Bingham.


Federal, State And Local Leaders And Experts Announce Results Of Forest Watch, A Public Lands Marijuana Grow Eradication And Reclamation Project

News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, federal, state, and local leaders joined with experts to announce the results of Operation Forest Watch, a coordinated effort to address the devastating damage done to our national forests by illegal, public-land marijuana grows. This months-long effort, led by U.S. Forest...


Charlotte Tax Return Preparer Pleads Guilty to Preparing False Tax Returns

News Release: Charlotte Tax Return Preparer Pleads Guilty to Preparing False Tax Returns.


News Release: By Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney, Eastern District of N.C.


Detroit Man Sentenced for Aggravated Identity Theft and  Defrauding the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency

News Release: A Detroit man was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to aggravated identity theft and defrauding the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced.


News Release: ATLANTA - ACETO Corporation, an international company with a North American headquarters based in New York, has agreed to pay a civil settlement of $120,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the recordkeeping requirements of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). ACETO imports controlled substances to a warehouse in Atlanta and has agreed to additional oversight from the Drug Enforcement Agency.


News Release: Fargo - U.S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of North Dakota was awarded the “Leadership in Transnational Crime Award" from the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP).


News Release: PINEDALE, Wyo. - Today the Bureau of Land Management in Wyoming issued the Record of Decision for the Normally Pressured Lance (NPL) Natural Gas Development Project.


Former New England La Cosa Nostra Member Sentenced for Obstructing Murder Investigation

News Release: BOSTON - A former New England La Cosa Nostra (NELCN) caporegime was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for obstructing a federal investigation into the murder of a Boston nightclub owner in the 1990s.


News Release: St. Louis, MO - Keith English, 26, was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for possession with the intent to distribute more than a kilogram of methamphetamine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of his drug dealing activities. English appeared before Judge E. Richard Webber in United States District Court in St. Louis this morning.


News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news reports of a George Washington University study, commissioned by the Governor of Puerto Rico, estimating the death toll from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico at 2,975, now the official death count...


Garfield Couple Charged with Distributing Heroin, Fentanyl, and Fentanyl Analogue

News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A superseding indictment against Quinshawn Haynie and Dara Haynie has been returned by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for conspiring to distribute and distributing heroin, butyryl fentanyl, and fentanyl in, on, or within 1,000 feet of a playground and a public housing facility, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.


News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Arthur Larange Lee Jr., 35, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced yesterday in the U.S. District Court in Gainesville to 327 months in prison for sex trafficking of an adult, and 60 months each for two counts of use of interstate commerce to commit prostitution. Each count is...


Former New England La Cosa Nostra Member Sentenced for Obstructing Murder Investigation

News Release: BOSTON - A former New England La Cosa Nostra (NELCN) caporegime was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for obstructing a federal investigation into the murder of a Boston nightclub owner in the 1990s.


News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Cabool, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to violating the Clean Water Act by dumping grease into the Big Piney River.