News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that MEKAILL HARRIS, age 20, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty Sept. 3, 2019 to a one count Superseding Bill of Information charging him with possession of a firearm in a federal facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: GREENBELT, Md. - Today, Coron Demon Johnson, aka Savage, 25, of Baltimore, Md., was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of heroin. Johnson admitted that an individual died as a result of using heroin that he distributed.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: CINCINNATI - A Russian national and an Italian national have been charged here with conspiring and attempting to steal trade secrets from an American aviation company.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Charles H. Riel, age 60, of Clay, New York, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Court Judge Frederick J. Scullin, Jr. to serve 24-months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of post-release supervision for defrauding investors of hundreds of thousands of...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Jayson Michael Babbitt, 35, of Las Vegas, was charged today by criminal complaint with engaging in the business of dealing in firearms without a license, illegal possession of a machine gun, and making a machine gun in violation of the National Firearms Act, announced United States ...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: EMINENCE, MO - Join us at Ozark National Scenic Riverways for a variety of hiking opportunities this fall! All activities and events are free of charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Larry Scott has pleaded guilty to wire fraud for failing to disclose to the City of Atlanta that while he served as its Director of Contract Compliance, he also served as the business manager for a consulting firm seeking contracts in the Atlanta-metropolitan area. Scott also failed to report on his taxes the majority of the income earned from the consulting firm.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reminds communities, farmers and ranchers, families and small businesses in the path of Hurricane Dorian that USDA has programs that provide assistance in the wake of disasters. USDA staff in regional, state and county offices stand ready and are eager to help.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: (Little Rock, Arkansas, September 4, 2019) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue joined Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson today to sign a shared stewardship agreement between the USDA’s Forest Service, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the State of Arkansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: A five-count indictment was filed yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn charging Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, 43, also known as “Suleiman Al-Amriki” and “Suleiman Al-Kazakhi,” with conspiracy to provide material support to ISIS; providing material support to ISIS in the form of personnel, training, expert ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: A Bangladeshi national residing in Tapachula, Mexico, was arrested Aug. 31 on arrival at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, to face a superseding criminal indictment for his role in a scheme to smuggle aliens into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today seeking to block Novelis Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Aleris Corporation in order to preserve competition in the North American market for rolled aluminum sheet for automotive applications, commonly referred to as aluminum auto body sheet. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that defendant Christopher Loring, a former lieutenant at the Richwood Correctional Center, was sentenced to 46 months in prison in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to cover up the abuse of five inmates by corrections officers. Loring, 37, of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Cleoretta Allen, 41, of Louisville, Kentucky, pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky to two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion and one count of interstate transportation for prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt ARD LLC (formerly known as Mallinckrodt ARD Inc. and previously Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc. "Questcor"), has agreed to pay $15.4 million to resolve claims that Questcor paid illegal kickbacks to doctors, in the form of lavish dinners and entertainment, to induce ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: A federal district court in Washington, D.C. today entered a final order giving effect to the settlement that the Department of Justice reached with CVS Health Corporation and Aetna Inc., which required the parties to divest Aetna’s Medicare Part D prescription drug plan (PDP) business for individuals ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: A Houston-area man who posed as a physician at an unregistered pain clinic was found guilty today for his role at a “pill mill” at which he and his co-conspirators illegally prescribed hundreds of thousands of doses of opioids and other controlled substances.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the affirmative preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigations of imports of certain fabricated structural steel from China and Mexico, finding that exporters from China and Mexico have dumped fabricated structural steel in the ...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor released the following update regarding Senior Policy Advisor Leif Olson of the Wage and Hour Division.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor has extended the application submission deadline for its Excellence in Disability Inclusion (EDI) Awards to November 1. Employers who have already submitted an application may update it if desired.
