News published on Federal Newswire in January 2019

News from January 2019


The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Jan. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a two page proposed rule on Jan. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a five page proposed rule on Jan. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Jan. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Jan. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Federal Reserve System published a two page rule on Jan. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Federal Reserve System published a two page rule on Jan. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Former Supervisor at Louisiana Correctional Facility Pleads Guilty to Violating Civil Rights of Five Inmates

News Release: Former Supervisor at Louisiana Correctional Facility Pleads Guilty to Violating Civil Rights of Five Inmates.


Miami County Man Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Recording Sexual Abuse of Two Minors

News Release: DAYTON - Shawn Bradley, 37 of Miami County, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 25 years in prison for creating child pornography.


News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)’s Montana/Dakotas State Office today released the March 2019 Notice of Competitive oil and gas lease sale list, which includes 305 parcels totaling about 167,113 acres. The sale is scheduled to occur online at www.energynet.com starting on March 25, 2019.


Former Microsoft Director of Sports Marketing Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud

News Release: Used Position to Embezzle more than $750,000 and Sell $200,000 Worth of Microsoft Super Bowl Tickets for Personal Profit.


Bronx Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Possessing Child Pornography

News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Lancelot Paul Lutchman was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his possession of files containing sexually explicit images of a minor. Lutchman pled guilty on Sept. 12, 2018, before U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty, who imposed today’s sentence.


News Release: Justice Department Announces Multiple Charges for Price-Fixing Conspiracies in Customized Promotional Products Industry.


USDA Awards Agricultural Trade Promotion Program Funding

News Release: Washington - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded $200 million to 57 organizations through the Agricultural Trade Promotion Program (ATP) to help U.S. farmers and ranchers identify and access new export markets. The ATP...


News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Ingrid Innes, the former chief executive officer, and Alex Tasker, a former senior vice president of Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited (ICBL), a Barbados-based insurance company, were charged in a superseding indictment unsealed on Jan. 18, 2019, with laundering bribes to the former Minister of Industry of Barbados in exchange for his assistance in securing government contracts for ICBL. Innes and Tasker are not in U.S. custody.


Miami Resident Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison for Robbing Miami Shores TD Bank Branch at Gunpoint and Discharging the Firearm During the Robbery

News Release: A Miami resident was sentenced today to a total of thirteen years in federal prison for robbing a Miami Shores TD Bank Branch at gunpoint and discharging the firearm during the course of the robbery.


News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that GUY PARISI, a Westchester attorney, pled guilty today to a mail fraud charge arising from his attempt to embezzle funds from a decedent’s estate for which he served as a court-appointed administrator. PARISI entered the plea in White Plains federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa Margaret Smith.


News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - The second of two New York men who admitted to cutting their way through a roof into a Target department store in Smithfield, R.I., in October 2017, prying open an ATM inside the store and stealing more than $14,000, then cutting through a wall into a CVS Pharmacy located inside the store and stealing a controlled substance was sentenced today in federal court to time served.


News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - A Lake Charles couple admitted on Wednesday in U.S. District Court to selling hundreds of Oxycodone pills, announced U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph.


ICE removes Honduran national wanted for homicide in his home country

News Release: PHOENIX - A Honduran national, wanted in his native country for homicide, was removed Thursday, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), and transferred to the custody of the Honduran National Police.