News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE- Shane Leazier II, 33, of Columbia City, Indiana was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated two Tennessee counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Lake and Lauderdale counties who suffered losses due to prolonged, excessive rain and flooding that occurred Jan. 1, 2019, through July 22, 2019, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Paul Kesterson, 48, of Washington, MO, who was employed as a Lieutenant with the Washington, Missouri Police Department, was sentenced to two months and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $25,556 for stealing funds. Kesterson appeared today before U.S. District Judge Webber.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 74 Indiana counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers who suffered losses due to excessive rain and flooding that has occurred since March 1, 2019, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Today, the House Judiciary Committee passed H.R. 1423, the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act (FAIR Act) by a vote of 22-14. The FAIR Act would end the use of forced arbitration in consumer, worker, civil rights, and antitrust disputes. This is the first time the bill has ever moved in Congress. The bill now heads to the House floor for a full vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: National, State, Local and Tribal Government Officials Announce New Statewide Mississippi Human Trafficking Council to Combat This Violent Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal jury sitting in Houston has convicted a 34-year-old man for conspiracy and methamphetamine smuggling, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. The jury deliberated for less than three hours following a three-day trial before convicting Rogelio Rivera Benito aka Mecanico, who illegally resided in Houston, for the conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Frank Monte (40, Valrico) and Kimberley Anderson (52, New Port Richey) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to pay healthcare kickbacks. Each faces up to five years in federal prison and each has also agreed to forfeit $1,717,925.50 in assets.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Yankton, S.D. - On Aug. 16, 2019, the National Park Service (NPS) Acting Regional Director, Patricia Trap signed the decision record Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Goat Island Management Plan and Environmental Assessment. The approved FONSI allows the NPS to implement the management plan, as described in the selected action.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Arthur Jones, 41, Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to three years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl-laced heroin in...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service and Suffolk County Department of Health Services have confirmed the findings of Asian longhorned ticks (Haemaphysalis longicornis) in Suffolk County at Lloyd Harbor, William Floyd Estate, and Ocean Beach on Fire Island.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated seven Ohio counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers who suffered losses due to two separate disaster events may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated two Pennsylvania counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Lackawanna and Wayne counties who suffered losses due to excessive rain, flash flooding, and flooding that occurred July 21, 2018, through Feb. 28, 2019, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Science stinks. So thought Megan Harries as she measured drops of putrescine and cadaverine - the chemicals that give decomposing corpses their distinctive, terrible odor - into glass vials. She then placed the vials on the floor of a shipping container, walked outside, and closed the door behind her.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorneys, Assistant Attorney General Civil Rights Division, Mississippi Department Of Public Safety, and Mississippi Speaker of the House made the announcement.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to appeal U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross’s decision last week approving the sale of Hahnemann University Hospital’s medical resident training program in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for $55 million. Last week, Judge Gross gave CMS one week to appeal his decision...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Five men indicted in federal court in Wichita are among hundreds of defendants charged in an international fraud investigation, U.S. Attorney Stephan McAllister said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Kwesi Bovell, the former chief financial officer (CFO) of The Mulholland Group, a real estate company in Manhasset (Mulholland), pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in connection with his embezzlement of millions of dollars from his employer...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Holmes County, Florida, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2019
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Lisa Cohen, age 55, and her brother Natale Colitte, age 51, both of North Charleston, were sentenced in federal court for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute heroin, fentanyl, and...
