News from March 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Every day, news reports detail the arrests of child predators and their horrific impact on innocent victims. Child sexual and physical exploitation is exploding online, and law enforcement officials need new tools to combat it. With an estimated one million predators and only 6,000 specialized law enforcement officials’ worldwide dedicated to fighting child exploitation, agents are outnumbered
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: ROME, Ga. -- Federal and state agents have arrested 23 members and associates of the Ghostface Gangsters prison gang, which originated in the Cobb County, Georgia jail in 2000, and has since spread through Georgia jails, prisons, and beyond. A federal grand jury returned a 21-count indictment on Feb. 8, 2018, which was recently unsealed. The crimes alleged in the indictment range from wire fraud to murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Donora, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, on a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of over 500 grams of cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing on, “Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration:"
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River Site (SRS) recently organized and sponsored a regional Science Bowl competition making it one of only four DOE sites to have participated each year at the regional level since the start of the DOE Science Bowl competition in 1991. This year’s winning team from Lakeside High School, Evans, Ga., will be rewarded with an all-expense paid trip to Washington D.C. for the national competition in April.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) sent letters yesterday to the Government of the District of Columbia and United Medical Center in Washington, D.C., following...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Gary L. Thomas, 31, of Mt. Sterling, Ky., was sentenced today, to 15 years in prison by United States Senior District Court Judge Joseph M. Hood, for carjacking and use of a firearm during a violent offense. Judge Hood also ordered Thomas to pay a restitution in the amount of $11,000 to the victim.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
Release: Washington, DC, March 5, 2018 - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Steve Censky today announced two new efforts to provide states and school districts with additional flexibility and support to operate more efficient school meal programs. Censky made the announcement during a speech at the School Nutrition Association Legislative Action Conference in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida- U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Juan Almeida (59) and Andrew Cassara (38), both of Boca Raton, to six and seven years in federal prison, respectively, for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana. They pleaded guilty on November 6, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Tucson, AZ--- “Look, up in the sky!" will be the word when junior rangers attend “Astronomy Camp" in the Rincon Mountain District (east) of Saguaro National Park East on Saturday, March 24. The new event, running from 3 to 9 PM that day will travel from earth orbit to the farthest reaches of space through indoor and outdoor activities and a hands-on telescope session when darkness falls.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: ELBERT MOORE, age 36, of Houma, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today before the Honorable Susie Morgan to a bill of information charging him with violating the Federal Controlled Substances Act, announced U.S. Attorney Duane Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina-------United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that a hearing for Thomas Lawton Evans Jr., age 37, of Boiling Springs, South Carolina, has been set for Monday, March 5, 2018, at 1:30 P.M. in the federal courthouse, 85 Broad St., in Charleston, SC,.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Sterling Jones, 24, of Lockport, NY, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 5, 2018 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Steve Censky today announced two new efforts to provide states and school districts with additional flexibility and support to operate more efficient school meal programs. Censky made the announcement during a speech at the School Nutrition Association Legislative Action Conference in Washington, D.C.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 5, 2018 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of 11 members and 10 alternates to serve on the American Egg Board. Nine member appointees and nine alternates will serve two-year terms. Three appointees -- two members and one alternate -- will serve ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: A federal jury found a Biloxi, Mississippi physician guilty Friday for his role in an approximately $3 million compounding pharmacy fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today announced it has entered into a settlement agreement with the University of Baltimore (University) to resolve allegations that the University discriminated against a female employee, based upon her pregnancy, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. According ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today announced it has signed a settlement agreement with West Liberty Foods L.L.C., an Iowa-based meat processing business that operates a plant in Bolingbrook, Illinois, to resolve the Department’s investigation into whether the company discriminated against work-authorized immigrants ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that Ultra Electronics Holdings plc and Sparton Corporation have abandoned their merger, originally valued at more than $234 million. The transaction threatened to permanently combine the only two qualified suppliers of sonobuoys to the U.S. Navy. Sonobuoys are ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division will hold a series of three public roundtable discussions to explore the relationship between competition and regulation, and its implications for antitrust enforcement policy. The first roundtable will occur on Wednesday, Mar. 14, 2018 in the Great Hall ...
