News from February 2019
By USDA Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Today, the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) rolls out Tellus, its new online communications platform, replacing its legacy AgResearch online magazine. The conversion took months of reimagining and development, and brings a fresh source of agricultural information to clients worldwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Faces Up to 30 Years in Prison and up to $1,000,000 Fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ELIZABETH ANN PIERCE, the former Chief Executive Officer of a telecommunications company based in Anchorage, Alaska, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to wire fraud and aggravated identity...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Colombian Nationals Sentenced to 45 and 50 Years in Prison for Participating in Human Smuggling Event that Resulted in the Rape and Murder of Cuban Nationals.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: False Pay Records Sent to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) needed a way to secure smart manufacturing systems using the digital thread, so they turned to the new kid on the block … blockchain, that is.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Octavius DeJuan Phillips, 30, of Gastonia, N.C., was sentenced to 121 months in prison and three years of supervised release on armed robbery charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. presided over the sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Feb. 11, 2019, Megan Brook Gilliam, 25, of Morristown, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, Senior U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 110 months in federal prison for her role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Genetic Testing Company Agrees to Pay $1.99 Million to Resolve Allegations of False Claims to Medicare for Medically Unnecessary Tests.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Boulder City, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation today released a Finding of No Significant Impact and Final Environmental Assessment for a WaterSMART Small-Scale Water Efficiency Program Grant to the Washington County, Utah, Water Conservancy District.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Edward Barrett, 27, of Elmira, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 100 grams or more of a fentanyl analogue, was sentenced to serve 90 months in prison by Chief U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ELIZABETH ANN PIERCE, the former Chief Executive Officer of a telecommunications company based in Anchorage, Alaska, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to wire fraud and aggravated identity...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Rodolfo Torres-Galvan, 29, (Torres), a native and citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. He is the second co-conspirator to enter a guilty plea in this case.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Throughout the recent 35-day lapse in appropriations, press releases for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota were very limited as required by Department of Justice rules. However, during any lapse in Congressional appropriations, the Department of Justice’s essential public safety...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Octavius DeJuan Phillips, 30, of Gastonia, N.C., was sentenced to 121 months in prison and three years of supervised release on armed robbery charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. presided over the sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Joshua Phillip Sweet, of Triadelphia, West Virginia, has admitted to moving to West Virginia without updating his sex offender registration, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- The National Park Service (NPS) will temporarily narrow parts of the Rock Creek Park paved multi-use trail from Monday, February 25 to late-March. The change is to accommodate maintenance work between the Beach Drive, National Zoo tunnel and the Klingle Road NW overpass from 9:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Monday- Saturdays.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS, MINN-The FBI Minneapolis Division has selected Twin Cities resident Judith Meisel as the recipient of the 2018 Director’s Community Leadership Award (DCLA). Every year, each of the 56 FBI divisions around the country honors a person who has demonstrated outstanding contributions to his or her community through service.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Joseph Price (619) 546-7642.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Fall River man pleaded guilty today to federal charges related to his participation in a conspiracy to traffic multiple kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico to Rhode Island through the U.S. Postal Service.
