News from March 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Good morning. Let me begin by thanking Ms. Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate, for being here today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Ralph V. Signoracci, IV, age 44, of Cohoes, New York, pled guilty today to conspiring with Cohoes Mayor Shawn Morse to defraud Morse’s supporters by stealing campaign contributions for Morse’s personal benefit.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, March 7, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $3.1 million to Hawaii as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production system. Overall, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing "Addressing the Public Health Emergency of Gun Violence".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Ian Michael Toothman, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 292 months incarceration for a child pornography charge yesterday, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Defendant had three prior deportations to Mexico.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the following statement in light of recent reporting regarding Michael Cohen’s false testimony to Congress...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Moscow-based Mobile TeleSystems PJSC (MTS), the largest mobile telecommunications company in Russia and an issuer of publicly traded securities in the United States, and its wholly owned Uzbek subsidiary, KOLORIT DIZAYN INK LLC (KOLORIT), have entered into resolutions with the Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Oliver Barcenas was sentenced to 84 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF") Special Agent in Charge Rayfield Roundtree. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Vince Chhabria, United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Grace Kay with wire fraud related to a long-running scheme to solicit funds from real estate investors. Kay was arrested today and is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge James Orenstein.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Seven People, Including Three Filipinos, Charged with Fraudulently Selling Jewelry Imported from the Philippines as Native American-Made.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
Release: The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing some changes to the regulations for the accredited veterinarian program, in order to clarify program definitions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: A Wooster man was indicted in federal court after making threats purporting to be from women associated with an adult website.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging 24 individuals connected to a southeastern Connecticut drug trafficking ring with narcotics and related offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - Christopher Paul Murphy, 68, of Golden Valley, Ariz., was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 12 months and one day in prison for intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury today returned a superseding indictment charging four men with murder and other charges in the kidnapping of a Maryland man whose body was found in an alley in Southeast Washington last June. The victim had been shot numerous times and his hands were still bound with zip-ties.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Gregory Whitt, 63, Beloit, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to six months in prison for Social Security fraud. Whitt pleaded guilty to this charge on Oct. 17, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - A local man has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for distributing a lethal dose of fentanyl resulting in a fatal overdose. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is showcasing technology advances, program impacts, investments, and emergency communications solutions at this year’s International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE). S&T will be available at booth #715 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, through March 8, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Keith Baker, 24, of Littleton, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.
