News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A shrimp boat seized in a federal fraud investigation has a new home with a North Carolina seafood company.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the District Attorney for the County of New York, John R. Tafur, the Special Agent in Charge of the Newark Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), William...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: Dear Acting Director Vought: The President’s announcement to spend up to $6.725 billion in additional funding for construction of a border wall or barrier came at the end of bipartisan negotiations on an agreed-to funding level of $1.375 billion for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 for border security. The executive...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - On Feb. 28, the Drug Enforcement Administration, U. S. Customs and Border Protection, U. S. Coast Guard, Homeland Security Investigations, the New York Police Department and the New York State Police conducted a container inspection at the Port of New York/Newark, discovering 60 bundles...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: DETROIT - In an effort to mitigate vulnerabilities within the commerce stream that threaten the nation’s consumers and to protect national security, Homeland Security officials recently launched its Global Trade Task Force (GTTF), a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: William P. Keller, 42, of Centralia, Illinois, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for distributing and receiving child pornography over the internet. Chief United States District Judge Michael J. Reagan handed down the sentence, which includes five years of supervised release and a $15,000 restitution award to the victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Jay Jackson, age 59, formerly of Hershey, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 145 months’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo on multiple...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Canfield, Ohio, has been sentenced in federal court to probation for a term of five years and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $331,509.00 on his conviction of tax evasion, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC, March 11, 2019-A fuller picture is emerging of the environmental footprint of beef in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Jay Jackson, age 59, formerly of Hershey, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 145 months’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo on multiple...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 926,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Patsy Meredith DeMary, of Beverly, West Virginia, and Scott Jackson Hamrick, of Elkins, West Virginia, were indicted by a federal grand sitting in Elkins on Feb. 20, 2019 on drug distribution and firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $17 million in new funding to deploy energy infrastructure on tribal lands. This funding through the DOE Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs will support Indian Tribes, which include Alaska Native Regional Corporations and Village Corporations, Intertribal Organizations, and Tribal Energy Development Organizations, interested in harnessing their vast undeveloped energy resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A St. Louis, Mo., man traveling by bus from Los Angeles, Calif., was charged in federal court today with possessing methamphetamine to distribute after more than 31 pounds of methamphetamine was found in his luggage at a Kansas City, Mo., bus station.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Former Logan County Deputy Sheriff DOYLE ALLEN BAKER, 31, of Weatherford, Texas, has pleaded guilty to theft from a federal transportation grant, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Eric Allen Harris, of Beverly, West Virginia, was arraigned today after being indicted by a federal grand sitting in Elkins on Feb. 20, 2019 on drug distribution charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Springville couple involved in a St. Clair County pill mill scheme entered dual guilty pleas today in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, Drug Enforcement Administration-Birmingham Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge Andy Langan and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on President Trump’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2020...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on President Trump’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2020...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2019
News Release: FBI and Birmingham Police Increase Reward Offer and Ask for Public’s Assistance in Identifying Persons of Interest in Armored Vehicle Robbery.
