News from March 2018
By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
Release: Funding Supports Local Projects to Protect Agriculture and Plants from Pests and Diseases WASHINGTON, March 22, 2018 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $2 million to New York from Section 10007 of the 2014 Farm Bill as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
Release: Funding Supports Local Projects to Protect Agriculture and Plants from Pests and Diseases WASHINGTON, March 22, 2018 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $14.8 million to California from Section 10007 of the 2014 Farm Bill as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: HILLIARD FAZANDE, III (“FAZANDE"), age 50, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty today to bank theft, announced United States Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
Release: Funding Supports Local Projects to Protect Agriculture and Plants from Pests and Diseases WASHINGTON, March 22, 2018 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $2 million to North Carolina from Section 10007 of the 2014 Farm Bill as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
Release: Funding Supports Local Projects to Protect Agriculture and Plants from Pests and Diseases WASHINGTON, March 22, 2018 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $873,000 to Ohio from Section 10007 of the 2014 Farm Bill as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A federal jury convicted two men from California today for robbing a Reno convenience store at gunpoint on Black Friday, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson of the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - Chief U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Rico Simmons (42, Tampa) to seven years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit theft of government property, access device fraud, and aggravated identity theft. As part of his sentence, the court also ordered him to pay $156,100.12 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service, and entered a separate money judgment against him in the same amount.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Sher Khang, 33, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 27 months in federal prison, followed by a three-year term of supervised release, for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. Khang pleaded guilty to this charge on January 4, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: FBI Asks for Public’s Help Finding Fugitive-Shawn Weatherhead.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement after Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) issued a unilateral subpoena ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: In Del Rio today, a federal judge sentenced former Val Verde County Precinct 1 Commissioner Ramiro V. Ramon to 18 months in federal prison for underreporting his total income on three separate federal Income Tax Returns, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs and Acting IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Andy Tsui.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bipartisan leaders and key members of the Senate Finance Committee and House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding its oversight of the Medicaid drug rebate program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Timothy Jackson, 42, and Paul Simmons, Jr., 33, both from Picayune, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden for their roles in the distribution of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Thomas M. Annello, Acting Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Four individuals have been indicted for introducing or possessing drugs in the Tennessee Department of Correction. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictments today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement in response to an investigation by the U.S. Trade Representative into Chinese theft of U.S. technology.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Brandon Darrell Martin, age 28, of Winchester Ky., pleaded guilty today to Possession of Firearms by a Convicted Felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Following a three-day trial, a jury found Mark Porter, 59, a former resident of Draper, guilty late Wednesday afternoon of committing a federal hate crime when he used a stun device during the racially-motivated assault of a neighbor at his apartment complex in Draper, Utah. The jury further found that the defendant used a dangerous weapon - a stun cane. Prior to his arrest in this case, Porter was living in of Lake Havasu City, AZ.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, a federal grand jury in Brooklyn returned a four-count indictment charging 18th Street gang members and associates Yanki Misael Cruz-Mateo, Israel Mendiola Flores and Sergio Gerardo Herrera-Hidalgo with murder conspiracy and the Oct. 25, 2017 murder of a fellow 18th Street gang member...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a seven-count indictment today against Armando Castillo, 48, of Hanford, charging him with dealing firearms without a license, possessing unregistered firearms and possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON Ky. - Two Nicholasville, Ky., men were indicted today for using social media to post a false threat about a prospective shooting at one or more Jessamine County schools and for using social media to harass and intimidate an individual victim with those same threats.
