News from October 2019
By USDA Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a hearing titled, “Implementing the 2018 Farm Bill."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced three sentences for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine imposed by Chief District Court Judge John Jarvey on October 8, 2019. Joseph A. Brown, a 35 year-old Omaha, Nebraska, resident, was sentenced to ten years in prison, followed...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - An initial trial date of Dec. 9, 2019, has been scheduled for a Mattoon, Ill., man, Tyler L. Foote, 28, indicted on federal child pornography charges on Oct. 1. The indictment had remained sealed pending Foote’s arraignment today in federal court in Urbana. Foote, of the 1300 block of Champaign Ave, in Mattoon, was arrested on Aug. 16, on Coles County state charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Three Savannah men will spend a total of nearly 34 years in federal prison after sentencing for a drug trafficking conspiracy and firearms crimes discovered after a high-speed chase with Georgia state troopers.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Communications and Technology and Consumer Protection and Commerce...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Phishing and Spear Phishing Attacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hoboken, New Jersey, today man admitted his role in a conspiracy to promote a voter bribery scheme during a municipal election in Hoboken, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joshua Levine, 23, of Lancaster, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Jeffrey Lyons, 58, of Lancaster, PA, Karen Connelly, 65, of Manheim, PA, and Judith Avilez, 58, of Elizabethtown, PA were all charged with bank fraud for their roles in defrauding Fulton Bank. Lyons and Connelly were charged by Information and Avilez was charged by Indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Belleville man pled guilty to a gun crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Joshua Adam Dowler, 37, pled guilty to being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of JEREMIAH KINGBIRD, 39, to one count of second degree murder. KINGBIRD, who was indicted on Feb. 20, 2019, entered his guilty plea earlier today before Judge Susan Richard Nelson in U.S. District Court in Bemidji, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Jeffrey Lyons, 58, of Lancaster, PA, Karen Connelly, 65, of Manheim, PA, and Judith Avilez, 58, of Elizabethtown, PA were all charged with bank fraud for their roles in defrauding Fulton Bank. Lyons and Connelly were charged by Information and Avilez was charged by Indictment.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - DOE recently recognized a Savannah River Site (SRS) team for its innovative approach to sustainability involving the use of aerial drones to control the growth of vegetation atop two closed reactor buildings, saving more than $170,000 a year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: A federal jury has convicted three leaders of the Gangster Disciples (GD) national criminal organization of offenses including racketeering conspiracy (RICO) involving murder, attempted murder in aid of racketeering, drug trafficking conspiracy and other crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: A Washington, D.C., man pleaded guilty today to advertising child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Today, a federal jury found an Oakland-area real estate developer guilty for funneling tens of thousands of dollars through straw donors into two consecutive congressional campaigns for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s ...
By Fed Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Five federal financial regulatory agencies on Tuesday announced that they finalized revisions to simplify compliance requirements relating to the "Volcker rule." By statute, the Volcker rule generally prohibits banking entities from engaging in proprietary trading or investing in or sponsoring hedge funds or private equity funds.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the affirmative preliminary determinations in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of imports of certain quartz surface products from India and Turkey, finding that exporters received countervailable subsidies ranging from de minimis to 4.32 percent for India and 3.81 percent for Turkey.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of imports of vertical metal filing cabinets from China, finding that exporters from China have sold vertical metal filing cabinets at less than ...
By Labor Gazette | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS, MN – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) and after a failed appeal to the Department’s Administrative Review Board (ARB), ME Global Inc. – a steel foundry based in Columbia Heights, Minnesota – has paid a former employee $190,357 in back wages and interest for violating the labor provisions of the H-1B visa program.