News from November 2019
By USDA Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: Nov. 12, 2019 - USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) is now processing 2018 Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) payments for seed cotton and long and medium grain rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Timothy J. Simpson, Jr., age 41, of Philmont, New York, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for heroin and fentanyl trafficking in Columbia County.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - It’s 5:30 a.m. As most employees’ alarm clocks are repeating their dreaded sound, Henry Mutka is already in the office starting a pot of coffee to begin his day at DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM).
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Acting Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released a memo updating Committee Members about the status of the Committee’s ongoing investigation into the Trump Administration’s illegal effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - Nineteen individuals are facing 38 criminal charges as part of federal gun, robbery and drug investigations announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Sixteen Indictments by a Federal Grand Jury were filed in the last eight weeks in United States District Court in Davenport, Iowa. This is in addition to the 25 individuals charged for federal violations of gun crimes announced in August 2019 by United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: FBI Announces the Arrest of Two Individuals for Carjacking.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Panama recently hosted an anti-financial crimes workshop with private sector representatives for Costa Rican and Panamanian law enforcement counterparts in San Jose, Costa Rica. The U.S. Department...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Rep. Marcia L. Fudge, Chair of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations, issued the following statement on the Administration’s aid program for farmers hurt by the Administration’s trade war, and the Administration’s simultaneous tightening of eligibility rules for food insecure families...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The former secretary/treasurer of the Plattsburg Special Road District was indicted by a federal grand jury today for stealing from the agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: Hongjin Tan, a 35 year old Chinese national and U.S. legal permanent resident, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to committing theft of trade secrets from his employer, a U.S. petroleum company.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: Harrisburg, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Luis Francisco Luna-Santiago, a 37-year old York man.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: S&T Public Affairs, 202-254-2385. LONDON - Last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) marked the 15-year anniversary of cooperation with the United Kingdom for collaborative research and development efforts aimed at both nations’ mutual homeland...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A jury on Friday convicted Tyler C. King, age 30, of Dallas, Texas, of computer fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with his hacking of a New York-based technology company.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: Last Defendant in Stanford Investment Fraud Scheme Extradited to U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Jay N. Lerner, Inspector General of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC")...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: A Laredo man has been charged via federal criminal complaint with carjacking resulting in serious bodily injury after brutally assaulting a woman in a downtown Dallas parking garage, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Ohio man was sentenced today to 300 months in prison for robbing a mobile communications company retail store in Orange, New Jersey, at gunpoint in June 2016, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Henrico man pleaded guilty today to unlawfully prescribing Oxycodone and Tramadol to patients at a Richmond-area pain management practice.
By State Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, spoke today at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on China’s growing malign economic and political influence in the U.S., Europe, and across the globe, and the need for a cohesive transatlantic strategy and policy response.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2019
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Victor Garo, 67, of Mililani, Hawaii, pleaded guilty today in federal court to one count of conspiracy to accept over $100,000 in bribes and one count of illegally transporting firearms across state lines. Garo admitted that he helped steer federal contracts worth more than $18 million to a contractor. Sentencing is scheduled for March 2020 before Chief U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright.
