News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: Saddiq Muhammad, 24, of Washington D.C., was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for his role in two armed robberies that occurred on May 8 and May 9, 2019. The incidents were part of a crime spree perpetrated by Muhammad on innocent civilians over the course of three days announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: GUNNISON, Colo. - This holiday season, permits are available for cutting Christmas trees on Bureau of Land Management public lands in the Gunnison, San Luis Valley, and Royal Gorge field offices through Dec. 24.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Chicopee man pleaded guilty on Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, in federal court in Springfield to receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Four former executives and two former employees of Outcome Health (Outcome), a Chicago-based health technology start-up company founded in 2006, were charged for their alleged roles in a fraud scheme that targeted the company’s clients, lenders and investors, and involved approximately $1 billion in fraudulently obtained funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Nana Mensah, age 34, and Patrick Barkers-Woode, age 27, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were convicted on Nov. 22, 2019, on fifteen counts of mail fraud, four counts of aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to commit mail fraud and aggravated identity theft after a three-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Yvette Kane.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C., Nov. 25, 2019 – Consistent with the Commerce Department’s Agreement Suspending the Countervailing Duty Investigation on Sugar From Mexico (the Agreement), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today notified the Department of Commerce (Commerce) of an additional need for sugar ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: PARSONS, Kansas, Nov. 25, 2019 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Chief Matthew Lohr today announced USDA has invested $5.2 million in high-speed broadband infrastructure that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for rural households and farms in Kansas. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s Reconnect Pilot Program investments.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: LAKE POINT, Utah, Nov. 25, 2019 – Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities Service Administrator Chad Rupe announced USDA has invested $5.13 million in two separate high-speed broadband infrastructure projects that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for more than 675 rural households in Utah and western Colorado. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: A federal court permanently enjoined a food company in San Francisco from manufacturing and distributing adulterated food, the Department of Justice announced today. In a complaint filed Nov. 22, 2019 at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the United States alleged that Golden ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: Four former executives and two former employees of Outcome Health (Outcome), a Chicago-based health technology start-up company founded in 2006, were charged for their alleged roles in a fraud scheme that targeted the company’s clients, lenders and investors, and involved approximately $1 billion in fraudulently obtained funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), within the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), recently upgraded the America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response (AMBER) Alert website , which now includes access to AMBER Alert in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: Salman Rashid, 23, of North Miami Beach, Florida, was arrested in South Florida based on a criminal complaint charging him with soliciting another person to commit a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: Two Long Island, New York, corporations and their owners pleaded guilty today in federal court for their scheme to falsely-label seafood that they later sold across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: A Tennessee emergency medical doctor pleaded guilty today for his role in unlawfully distributing controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: An Iowa man pleaded guilty today to a fraud charge for his role in a crude oil futures trading scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Inspector in Charge Delany DeLeon-Colón of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Criminal Investigations Group in Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – John Lee, an attorney who once represented Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas LLC, was arraigned Nov. 21 on an indictment issued on Oct. 8, for knowingly making false statements while testifying under oath before a federal grand jury and for obstructing justice.
By Fed Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday released Perspectives from Main Street: Bank Branch Access in Rural Communities, a report that examines how rural consumers and small businesses use bank branches and how their communities have been affected by branch closures.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: The 10th meeting of the U.S.-Brazil CEO Forum was held today in Washington, D.C., with CEO members providing joint recommendations to both governments on how to strengthen the U.S.-Brazil commercial relationship and grow bilateral trade and investment.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced affirmative final antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) circumvention rulings involving exports of hardwood plywood products from China, finding that hardwood and decorative plywood with veneers made of certain types of softwood (radiata and/or agathis pine) circumvent existing orders.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: SALINAS, CA – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Empire Farm Labor Contractor – based in Salinas, California – has paid $38,260 in back wages to 79 employees for multiple violations found under the H-2A temporary agricultural worker visa program and ...
