News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: Ho Schemed to Bribe the President of Chad, President and Foreign Minister of Uganda.
By State Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the committee will convene a hearing on Wednesday, Dec. 12, at 10 a.m. entitled “Development, Diplomacy, and Defense: Promoting U.S. Interests in Africa.".
By USDA Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today announced the Committee voted to favorably report the USDA nominations of Mindy Brashears to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety; Naomi Earp to be Assistant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: Macon - Two former bank tellers entered guilty pleas to one count of Conspiracy to Defraud a Financial Institution in federal court Tuesday, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Both Vicky Martin, 60, of Buckhead (Morgan County), and Brandy Mize, 42, of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: A Wooster man was indicted in federal court for attempting to induce what he believed was a 13-year-old boy to have sex with him.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), as part of an international partnership, will investigate the resource potential of natural gas hydrates within the Prudhoe Bay Unit (PBU) on the Alaska North Slope. NETL in partnership with the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
Release: PHILADELPHIA - A Delaware County, Pennsylvania, man was stopped by Transportation Security Administration officers at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) yesterday, Dec. 3, when they detected a handgun in the man’s carry-on bag.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2018 – Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that USDA is investing $1.2 billion to help rebuild and improve rural water infrastructure for 936,000 rural Americans living in 46 states.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2018 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced it will provide $3.7 million of assistance to fruit and vegetable growers in 16 states through a GAP Assistance Program to enhance market access by defraying costs of undergoing voluntary USDA Harmonized Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) audits in 2019.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., December 4, 2018) - Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the “OneUSDA Internship” opportunity for Summer 2019. As part of the Federal Pathways Program, the OneUSDA Internship will provide students a way to explore serving their country through a career in government while gaining work experience in agriculture, natural resources, rural development, and other career fields.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Trump Administration tackles nutrient issues in water resources across the country WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2018 – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a letter to state and tribal co-regulators that encourages increased engagement and a reinvigoration of state, tribal and federal efforts to reduce excess nutrients in waterways , with a focus on market-based and other collaborative approaches.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: A Colombian national was sentenced to 180 months in prison for his role in a scheme to smuggle illegal aliens from Colombia into the United States, which resulted in the rape of one and the death of two Cuban nationals.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Two Miami, Florida residents pleaded guilty today to health care fraud charges for their roles in an $8.6 million health care fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Minnesota-based medical device manufacturer ev3 Inc. has agreed to plead guilty to charges related to its neurovascular medical device, Onyx Liquid Embolic System, and pay $17.9 million, the Department of Justice announced today. Covidien LP, whose parent acquired ev3, separately paid $13 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations resulting from its alleged payment of kickbacks in connection with another medical device, the Solitaire mechanical thrombectomy device.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Four individuals have been charged in an indictment unsealed today in the Southern District of New York with wire fraud, tax fraud, money laundering and other offenses in connection with their alleged roles in a decades-long criminal scheme perpetrated by Mossack Fonseca & Co. (“Mossack Fonseca”), a Panamanian-based global law firm, and related entities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: A federal jury in the Eastern District of Virginia convicted a Honduran man yesterday of leading a drug trafficking organization that helped smuggle thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the United States over the last decade. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Ikaika Erik Kang, 35, a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army formerly stationed at Schofield Barracks, was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Kang was sentenced ...
By Fed Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: The three federal banking agencies announced they are seeking public comment on a proposal to raise the threshold for residential real estate transactions requiring an appraisal from $250,000 to $400,000. The appraisal threshold has remained unchanged since 1994, and the agencies believe an increase would provide burden relief without posing a threat to the safety and soundness of financial institutions.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its interest rate meeting on November 8, 2018.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS, IN – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) is conducting a statewide survey of active residential construction projects in Indiana between Aug. 1, 2017, and July 31, 2018, to establish prevailing wage rates, as required under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts. The data collection initiative is not limited to federally funded construction projects.
