News from March 2019
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
Release: Washington, D.C., March 1, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing to allow public review and comment on the protocols for deregulating fields previously infested with pale cyst nematode (PCN). These procedural changes would make the field deregulation process more transparent by giving the public the opportunity to participate in its development.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that James Davis, the former vendor who operated Sheriff sales for the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office, was sentenced today to 121 months’ imprisonment, and ordered to pay $872,395.00 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service and $1.718,540.00 in forfeiture. The sentence was imposed by United States District Judge Wendy Beetlestone.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to almost three years in prison for charges of unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against the Tulsa Police Department (TPD) officer involved in the fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher. Officials from the Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Investigators from several agencies have stopped a man who looted artifacts and destroyed archeological sites on public and tribal lands. Timothy Brian Harrison, age 50, was recently sentenced to serve one year and one day in prison and ordered to pay $113,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Kansas woman pleaded guilty today to mail fraud in a scheme to make it appear that when her employer died he left half his estate to her, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: An Elyria man was indicted on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Point Pleasant, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for planning to construct and use a pressure cooker bomb in New York on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers announced.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: ARS molecular biologist Elizabeth Ainsworth was honored with the National Academy of Science's Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences for her groundbreaking research to show how crops such as corn and soybeans are affected by increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and ozone, which is part of the latest issue of the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Food and Nutrition Research Briefs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Friday morning, four-term Dallas City Council Member Carolyn Davis pleaded guilty to accepting more than $40,000 in bribes, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On March 1st, a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment against five individuals for interference with commerce by robbery (Hobbs Act), carjacking, kidnapping, and possessing and brandishing a machinegun in furtherance of a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Feb. 27, 2019, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Yadiel José Mangual (a resident of Florida with family ties to Puerto Rico) for mailing firearms from Florida to Puerto Rico illegally, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that James Davis, the former vendor who operated Sheriff sales for the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office, was sentenced today to 121 months’ imprisonment, and ordered to pay $872,395.00 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service and $1.718,540.00 in forfeiture. The sentence was imposed by United States District Judge Wendy Beetlestone.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Boston - A Dominican national residing in Boston was indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston on charges including identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On March 1st, a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment against five individuals for interference with commerce by robbery (Hobbs Act), carjacking, kidnapping, and possessing and brandishing a machinegun in furtherance of a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: MIAMI, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited The Higgins Group Corp. - operating as Higgins Premium Pet Foods - for exposing employees to amputation, fall, and other safety hazards at its facility in Miami, Florida. The company faces $95,472 in penalties.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce leaders sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar demanding evidence and justifications for the Trump Administration’s final Title X gag rule, which threatens the program’s provider network and its patients’ access to care. The letter was signed by Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - On March 5, the Bureau of Land Management is planning a prescribed burn at the Dripping Springs Natural Area (Natural Area), near Las Cruces. Weather permitting, the burn will be conducted in the morning. Smoke will be highly visible to the City of Las Cruces and the surrounding communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: On Feb. 26, 2019, a West Palm Beach, Florida, investment advisor was ordered to pay over $1 million in restitution for his involvement in a pension trust fraud scheme.
