News from July 2019
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: Croatia became a member of the EU in 2013, which enhanced its economic stability and provided some new opportunities for trade and investment. Croatia is slowly accessing a substantial amount of available EU funds, but many direct benefits of EU entry are still to come. The Croatian government pledged ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On July 10, 2019, following a three-day trial before Chief Judge Pamela Reeves of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, a jury convicted Josh Small and Joni Amber Johnson of Princeton, West Virginia, of conspiracy to kidnap and kidnapping. Sentencing...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: That a new study has revealed for the first time how diet and bacteria may interact to prolong chronic diarrhea in rhesus macaques suffering from gastrointestinal diseases of unknown causes similar to the way humans do is part of the latest issue of the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Food and Nutrition Research Briefs.
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the anniversary of the massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Due to drying vegetation, increasing daytime temperatures and several human-caused fires the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Carson City District Office, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)-Western Nevada Agency, Nevada Division of Forestry (NDF), Public Domain Allotments, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) and Consolidated Business Center recently signed an agreement to expand collaboration on the Office of Environmental Management (EM) Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project. The collaboration, which will leverage LM’s knowledge of disposal cell cover design, has the potential to improve construction of a waste disposal cell in Utah and save taxpayer dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that ALAN KAUFMAN and TONY GEORGITON were arrested today and charged...
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: The Russian Federation continued to implement regulatory reforms in 2018, allowing Russia to climb four notches to 31st place out of 190 economies in the World Bank’s Doing Business 2019 Report. However, fundamental structural problems in its governance of the economy, in addition to Western sanctions ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Defendant faces five year mandatory minimum.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 33-year-old Houston resident has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of manufacturing/possessing with intent to deliver a controlled substance and discharging a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: Ukraine is striving to build a more modern and dynamic economy while struggling to overcome decades of corruption and government mismanagement. Hard-won reforms have brought macro-economic stability and some improvements in the business environment. In the past year however, partly due to the 2019 presidential ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - A federal grand jury indicted Alexander Taylor on charges of impersonating a federal officer and possession of a counterfeit seal of an agency of the United States, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and DEA Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida -U.S. District Judge Susan Bucklew today sentenced Ashanti Roundtree (44, North Port) to 40 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Due to his prior convictions for armed robbery and firearms and narcotics offenses, he qualified for an increased penalty as an Armed Career Criminal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Two people from Toledo were indicted on federal firearms charges. Yaree Moon, 41, was charged with being felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Moon possessed a Taurus.40-caliber pistol and five rounds of ammunition on April 16 despite a previous conviction for robbery, according to the indictment.
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: Bulgaria is still seen by many investors as an attractive investment destination with government incentives for new investment. Bulgaria continues to offer some of the least expensive labor in EU, with low and flat corporate and income taxes. There are no legal limits on foreign ownership or control ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Joseph Richard Caruso, 34, a prolific darknet narcotics vendor residing in Lake Oswego, Oregon, was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for illegally distributing fentanyl that was linked to a 2017 fatal overdose in Wisconsin.
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: Andorra is an independent principality with a population of about 76,100 and area of 181 square miles situated between France and Spain in the Pyrenees mountains. Although not a member of the European Union (EU), Andorra is part of the EU Customs Union and, due to a monetary agreement with the EU, uses ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Yonnie, 28, of Winslow, Ariz., was sentenced in federal court on Monday to 20 years in prison on two counts of second-degree murder in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida -U.S. District Judge Susan Bucklew today sentenced Ashanti Roundtree (44, North Port) to 40 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Due to his prior convictions for armed robbery and firearms and narcotics offenses, he qualified for an increased penalty as an Armed Career Criminal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Providence, Rhode Island, Woman Sentenced to Four Years Imprisonment for Transnational Crimes, including Fraud and Conspiracy to Commit International Money Laundering.
