News from March 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Anybody reading the trade policy news on the business pages is probably suffering from a nasty case of whiplash. Trying to decipher all that news, it is hard to identify a coherent strategy that will help American workers, businesses and farmers when the dust settles.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 28-year-old man from Channelview has entered a guilty plea to the receipt and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Springfield for illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, BRANDON LEE OGLESBY, of Dunn, North Carolina, was sentenced to 78 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), working jointly U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Caribbean Air and Marine Branch (CAMB) and the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) seized Tuesday 1,441 kilograms of cocaine in Vega Alta. The cocaine has an estimated street value of approximately $29 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. - Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo; James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the US Drug Enforcement (DEA); James P. O’Neill, Police Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD); and George P. Beach II, Superintendent of the New York State (NYSP) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dustin Lynn Garrison, of Fairmont, West Virginia, has admitted to illegally possessing a firearm, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: BOSTON -Two MS-13 members have pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to charges of racketeering conspiracy involving murder.
By State Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: Dear Governors: I must regrettably bring to your attention a serious allegation regarding the Broadcasting Board of Governors. I have learned from whistleblowers that the Trump Administration apparently intends to dismiss John Lansing as CEO of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and appoint BBG...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., March 20, 2018) – Vice President of the United States Mike Pence presented President Donald J. Trump’s National Agriculture Day Proclamation to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: Today Attorney General Sessions issued the following memo to U.S. Attorneys providing guidance regarding the use of capital punishment in drug-related prosecutions: "The opioid epidemic has inflicted an unprecedented toll of addiction, suffering, and death on communities throughout our nation. Drug overdoses, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that it has filed a lawsuit against John and Susan Klosterman alleging that female tenants in the Klostermans’ residential rental properties in Cincinnati, Ohio, were subjected to sexual harassment, coercion, intimidation, and threats in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act. Each of the defendants owns or manages properties where the illegal conduct occurred.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that an Ohio man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Ohio on a charge of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. According to the indictment, on or about Feb. 4, 2017, outside of a restaurant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: Amor M. Ftouhi, 50, of Montreal, Canada, who was previously indicted in July 2017, for charges relating to an attack on a Bishop Airport officer in Flint, Michigan, was charged today with an additional offense of committing an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: A real estate investor was sentenced today for his role in conspiracies to rig bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, the Department of Justice announced. Michael Marr was charged on Nov. 19, 2014, in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the Northern District ...
By Fed Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January indicates that the labor market has continued to strengthen and that economic activity has been rising at a moderate rate. Job gains have been strong in recent months, and the unemployment rate has stayed low. Recent data suggest ...
By Fed Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: The attached table and charts released on Wednesday summarize the economic projections and the target federal funds rate projections made by Federal Open Market Committee participants for the March 20-21 meeting.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: “We have agreed to launch immediately a process of discussion with President Trump and the Trump Administration on trade issues of common concern, including steel and aluminum, with a view to identifying mutually acceptable outcomes as rapidly as possible.”
By Labor Gazette | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WV – After a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation, a federal jury has entered a verdict against Randolph County Sheltered Workshop Inc. - doing business as Seneca Designs - and ordered the Elkins nonprofit to pay $119,040 in back wages to 34 employees. Entered in the ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on March 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
