News from July 2019
By USDA Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, DC, July 30, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture today released an analysis showing an increase in the benefit payment error rate in USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) between Fiscal Years 2017 and 2018. SNAP’s national payment error rate - a measure of both overpayments and underpayments made by all states to program participants - was 6.8% in fiscal year 2018, up from 6.3% in last year’s reporting.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Seeking Tips and Victims in Gilroy Shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - A second round of concentrated and coordinated federal, state, and local law enforcement activity has produced 29 arrests of wanted suspects and the seizure of eight weapons, significant quantities of drugs, more than $7,500 in cash, and two stolen vehicles, United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Trent Shores today announced that a Probation and Parole Officer from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections was charged with civil rights violations against two individuals he supervised while they were on probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a Mexican national was sentenced today to 64 months in prison for his role in conspiring to traffic approximately 300 grams of fentanyl into New Jersey.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) issued the following statement regarding a newly-released Government Accountability Office (GAO) report he requested about the challenges beneficiaries face when comparing Medicare coverage options on the Medicare Plan Finder (MPF) website...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Crews at EM’s Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant recently set two massive processing vessels, each standing 40 feet tall and weighing 160 tons. The vessels were set inside the Effluent Management Facility, key to EM’s Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste program. During the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Billy Altidor (28, Wellington) and Evanie Louis (27, Wellington) have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit theft of government funds and aggravated identity theft. Each faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison on the conspiracy charge, and a consecutive mandatory minimum of two years’ imprisonment, on the aggravated identity theft charge. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: COPPER CENTER, AK - With the increase of precipitation received over the Chetaslina and Long fires in the past several days, fire activity continues to be minimal. Fire personnel will continue to monitor these fires and will conduct another reconnaissance flight in several days once the fuels have an opportunity to dry out. Fire activity on the monitored Chetaslina (#606) and Long (#484) fires remains minimal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee pleaded guilty today to embezzling over $20,000 in payments from customers for money orders and stamps.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Richard A. Lobur, 55, of Akron, NY, pleaded before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to theft of government money. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MAHDI HENDERSON, 25, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: EM is leading DOE’s effort to collect and donate food to people in need this summer through a drive held by federal employees across the U.S...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to a letter signed by 21 Republican senators urging the Trump administration to circumvent Congress and unilaterally index the capital gains rate to inflation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A former high-ranking official in a labor union admitted in federal court today that he accepted $325,000 in unlawful cash payments from a Chicago business and failed to report the payments on his federal tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Monday, a federal jury found Morrey Selck, 55, guilty of assaulting a federal employee, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - One of 19 defendants charged in a gang-related racketeering conspiracy was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 120 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Yesterday, a third Portland-area man was sentenced to federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to traffic large quantities of methamphetamine into the Portland Metropolitan Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: St. Louis MO --- Christopher Crivolio, 47, of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, pled guilty today to one count of identity theft. Crivolio appeared before United States District Judge John A. Ross. Sentencing is scheduled for November 7, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Myron Crosby, Jr., aka “Templer," 56, of Springfield, Mass., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., to 14 years in prison and five...
