News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A local pharmacy marketer entered a guilty plea in connection with her role in a multi-million dollar illegal kickback conspiracy involving a pharmacy in the Rio Grande Valley and doctors throughout Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Drunkenness, discipline and death permeated the frontier army in the 19th century. From being hung by your thumbs to being shot through the heart, punishment could be cruel, arbitrary and capricious. Join Park Ranger James Shephard and step into the sometimes tortuous world of a frontier soldier.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Joseph Kamosky, age 36, of Damascus, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for possession of illegal firearm silencers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Five of the defendants face charges associated with murder at Bowling Green grocery store.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore, in partnership with the International Fiber Collaborative (IFC), announces a student art exhibition themed, Connect with the Rhythms of Nature on the Southern Outer Banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - BRANDON BYRGE, 29, of Texarkana, Arkansas, has been sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to pay $25,000 for interstate transportation of stolen property, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Kanaraville, UT - The Kolob Canyons Scenic Drive was closed March 6, 2019, after reports of three active areas of rockfall. The area will remain closed until the weather improves, and the road can be assessed and cleared.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - Two Kansas companies were indicted today on federal charges of safety violations that caused a greenish-yellow toxic chlorine gas cloud to form over the city of Atchison in October 2016, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. A web page, a phone line and an email address have been set up for victims to provide and receive information on the case.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Menis E. Ketchum II, age 76, of Huntington, a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, was sentenced to three years of probation, a $20,000 fine and was ordered to pay restitution to the State of West Virginia by Senior United States District Judge John T.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: OAKLAND -James Robert Lewis was sentenced to 76 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for violating the terms of his supervised release, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down today by the Honorable Phyllis J. Hamilton, Chief United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A jury returned guilty verdicts today in the federal trial of a Russian-born woman accused of unlawfully taking her child out of the United States and keeping the child away from the child’s father in Kansas, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Illegal Immigration Hits 12-Year High; More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in February The U.S. Border Patrol is currently encountering illegal immigration at the highest rates since 2007 , according to new data. In fact, in February more than double the level of migrants crossed the border without authorization compared to the same period last year, approaching the largest numbers seen in any February in the last 12 years, The New York Times reported.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 6, 2019 – The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced additional steps to keep African swine fever (ASF) from entering the United States, even as the disease spreads internationally. These steps strengthen the protections announced last fall after the deadly swine disease reached China. The goal remains to protect our nation’s swine industry from this disease. ASF does not affect people, nor is it a food safety issue.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that California Auto Finance, a subprime auto lending company based in Orange County, California, has agreed to enter into a court-enforceable consent order to resolve allegations that it illegally repossessed two servicemembers’ cars without court orders while ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that it has filed a lawsuit alleging that Gus Crank, manager of a residential rental property in Dayton, Kentucky, sexually harassed female tenants in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act. The lawsuit also alleges that Penny Crank, an owner of the rental property, is liable for Gus Crank’s actions because he managed the rental property on her behalf.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Baton Holdings LLC, as the successor in interest to Bankrate Inc., a financial services and marketing company (Bankrate), has entered into a nonprosecution agreement and agreed to pay $28 million in combined monetary penalties and restitution to resolve the government’s investigation into a complex accounting and securities fraud scheme carried out by former executives of Bankrate.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with ExxonMobil Oil Corporation (ExxonMobil) today to resolve federal Clean Air Act claims arising from a 2013 fire at the company’s oil refinery in Beaumont, Texas that killed two employees and injured ...
By Fed Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday invited public comment on whether it should propose amendments to its Regulation D (Reserve Requirements of Depository Institutions) to lower the rate of interest paid on excess balances ("IOER") maintained at Reserve Banks by eligible institutions that hold a very large proportion of their assets in the form of balances at Reserve Banks.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced that it will limit the use of the "qualitative objection" in its Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) exercise, effective for the 2019 cycle. The changes eliminate the qualitative objection for most firms due to the improvements in capital planning made by the largest firms.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board announced on Wednesday it has voted to affirm the Countercyclical Capital Buffer (CCyB) at the current level of 0 percent. In making this determination, the Board followed the framework detailed in the Board's policy statement for setting the CCyB for private-sector credit exposures located in the United States.
