News from February 2018

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced JERMAINE DALE ROGERS, 39, of Wilmington, to 210 months of imprisonment followed by 6 years of supervised release.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration this week placed all illicit fentanyl analogues not already regulated by the Controlled Substances Act into Schedule I-the category for substances with no currently accepted medical use-for two years, with the possibility of a one-year extension. This action is expected to reduce these substances’ flow into the country and slow the alarming increase in overdose deaths linked to synthetic opioids.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 31-year-old David Lee Sartin to 121 months in federal prison for his role in five bank robberies and one attempted bank robbery during the summer of 2016, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAMAEL ARTIS, also known as “Rah," 36, of Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 106 months imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for gun and drug offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – Today, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Press Secretary Tyler Q. Houlton released the following statement on U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) January Southwest Border Migration numbers: “DHS front-line ...

By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., February 7, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced $17.5 million in emergency funding to stop the spread of the spotted lanternfly in southeastern Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: A federal indictment was unsealed today charging 36 individuals for their alleged roles in the Infraud Organization, an Internet-based cybercriminal enterprise engaged in the large-scale acquisition, sale, and dissemination of stolen identities, compromised debit and credit cards, personally identifiable information, financial and banking information, computer malware, and other contraband.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice today filed a complaint to revoke the naturalization of a Sudan native—who entered the United States on an F-1 student visa and gained lawful permanent resident status through the diversity visa lottery program—for violating and conspiring to violate sanctions imposed against Iraq under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), as well as obstructing Internal Revenue laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: Rabobank National Association (Rabobank), a Roseville, California subsidiary of the Netherlands-based Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A., appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jill L. Burkhardt and pleaded guilty to a felony conspiracy charge for impairing, impeding and obstructing its primary regulator, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: A New York surgeon who practiced at hospitals in Brooklyn and Long Island was sentenced today to 156 months in prison for his role in a scheme that involved the submission of millions of dollars in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: DALTON, GA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited First Source Worldwide LLC for several workplace safety hazards that put employees at risk of injury. The company faces proposed penalties of $256,088.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 7, 2018
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Feb 7, 2018
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 7, 2018
The US Commerce Department published a four page notice on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Feb 7, 2018
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 7, 2018
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 7, 2018
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Feb 7, 2018
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Feb 7, 2018
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Feb 7, 2018
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.