News from May 2019
By USDA Newswire | May 1, 2019
Release: Washington, DC, May 1, 2019 - Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture published a encouraging them to require Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants to cooperate with child support programs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former attorney from Andover was convicted today by a federal jury of filing false tax returns and for conspiring with his accountant to defraud the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: A Lake Worth resident was sentenced to life in prison today, after having been convicted at trial of sex trafficking and obstruction of a sex trafficking investigation.
By DOL Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: It’s a good time to be an American worker. Job openings and wages are up, unemployment is down, and opportunities are vast. Today at a hearing on the policies and priorities of the Department of Labor (DOL), we got a better look at the American workforce and just how far we as a nation have come.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Austin Garland Burke, 64, and Timmy Allen Kemper, 58, were indicted today for the use of unlawful force on a pretrial detainee at the Western Regional Jail in Barboursville, West Virginia, while they were acting as internal affairs officers with the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Sedina Unkic Hodzic, 39, of St. Louis County, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Sedina Unkic Hodzic appeared today before Judge Catherine D. Perry who accepted her plea and set her sentencing for August 9, 2019. U.S. Attorney Jeffrey...
By USDA Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation today announced interest rates for April 2019, which are effective May 1-May 31, 2019. The Commodity Credit Corporation borrowing rate-based charge for May is 2.375 percent, down from 2.500 percent in April.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man convicted of sexually exploiting children by producing child pornography and possessing hundreds of images and videos of child pornography, was sentenced today to 140 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Boone County man who trafficked methamphetamine was sentenced to six years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Stuart commended the investigation conducted by the Boone County Sheriff’s Office, the West Virginia State Police, the U.S. 119 Drug and Violent Crime Task Force, and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Donald Eric McRoy, 53, of Biloxi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 278 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Jere T. Miles with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JARED CARRELL (“CARRELL"), age 38, of Thibodaux, Louisiana, entered a plea of guilty yesterday to Possession of Child Pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252(a)(4)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE, IN -Kristin M. Ferguson, also known as “Detroit," 29, of Wolcottville, Indiana was charged in a single count Indictment returned by the Grand Jury alleging that she possessed with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch, II.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSHUA AMARAL, also known as “Ill Child," 34, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 78 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for firearm offenses related to a shootout in Hartford’s South End in April 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart provided the following statement regarding a federal investigation into the 2016 floods disaster relief.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Osvaldo Rivera-Amaro, 46, of Tonawanda, NY, who was convicted of attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to serve 46 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Malachiah Williams, 22, of St. Louis, MO, pleaded guilty to two counts of carjacking and two counts of brandishing a firearm. Williams appeared today before U.S. District Judge Richard Webber who accepted his plea and set his sentencing date for July 30, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Jerome Stancil (52, Jacksonville) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Kentucky Deputy Jailer Convicted of Assaulting Inmate.
By Homeland Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Senate unanimously approved bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and John Hoeven (R-ND) to develop and retain highly-skilled cybersecurity professionals in the...
