News published on Federal Newswire in September 2019

News from September 2019


News Release: Washington - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today issued the following statement regarding the signing of the new United States-Japan Trade Agreement.


Former Vice President of Synergy Concepts Pleads Guilty to Stealing Funds

News Release: St. Louis, MO - Steven Walters, 52, of St. Peters, Missouri, pleaded guilty to one felony count of theft or embezzlement from an employee benefit plan. Walters appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Rodney Sippel who accepted his plea and set his sentencing date for Dec. 19, 2019.


News Release: BOSTON - An Ashburnham man was arrested yesterday in federal court in Worcester and charged with a federal firearms offense.


Private Exporters Report Sales Activity for China

Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 581,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2019/2020 marketing year.


BLM and Lander wild horse pasture place untrained horses

News Release: LANDER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management and the Wind River Wild Horse Public Off-Range Pasture found homes for 11 Wyoming wild horses last weekend at an adoption and free public day near Lander. This shared commitment to place excess wild horses into private care helps the BLM maintain healthy wild horses on healthy, productive public rangelands.


Two Kazakh Cybercriminals Plead Guilty in Global Digital Advertising Fraud Involving Tens of Millions of Dollars in Losses

News Release: Sergey Ovsyannikov and Yevgeniy Timchenko, citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, pleaded guilty yesterday and today, respectively, in federal court in Brooklyn to conspiring to commit wire fraud and related charges, for their involvement in a widespread digital advertising fraud. Ovsyannikov was arrested...


Former CEO Agrees to Plead Guilty to Embezzlement and Tax Crimes

News Release: BOSTON - The former CEO and co-founder of a Boston-based mobile phone music streaming service, has agreed to plead guilty in connection with a scheme to embezzle hundreds of thousands of dollars from his employer and to file false tax returns.



U.S. Department of Labor Cites Retailer for Inadequate Vermin And Respirator Protections at New Hampshire Store

News Release: CONCORD, NH - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Ocean State Job Lot for repeat and serious violations at a Stratham, New Hampshire, store. The retailer - based in North Kingstown, Rhode Island - faces a total of $154,199 in penalties for ineffective sanitation and respirator protections for store employees.


Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on "Investments in Medical Research at Five Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health".


News Release: Chairman Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Ranking Member Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., today advanced a comprehensive energy storage package to the full Senate during a business meeting held by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.


Fort Wayne Woman Sentenced to 63 Months

News Release: FORT WAYNE - Jermesha Davis, age 28, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly Brady for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.


News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally having ammunition.


Two Hudson Residents Plead Guilty to Fentanyl Trafficking

News Release: CONCORD - Joseph Roy, 31, and Amelia Roy 30, both of Hudson, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to drug trafficking charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced.


News Release: BOSTON - A Templeton man was arrested yesterday and charged with federal firearms offenses.


Release: PITTSBURGH - Do you have a star on your Pennsylvania driver’s license? If not, there’s still time to get your REAL ID-compliant driver’s license with that star on it. But it’s better to get it sooner, rather than later.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a business meeting during which members approved four bills, four resolutions, two nominations, and one FSO list.


Peterson, Costa Statements on Japan Trade Agreement

News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota and Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Chairman Jim Costa of California issued the following statements Tuesday on the release of details contained in a tariff reduction agreement between the United States and Japan.


U.S. Marshals and Springfield Police Arrest Oklahoma Homicide Fugitive

News Release: Springfield, MO - On Sept. 25, Deputy U.S. Marshals and Springfield Police Officers arrested Tulsa homicide suspect Nicholas Joseph Gibson following a traffic stop in east Springfield.


News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New York (“NYPD"), announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging RASHAWN WHIDBEE, a/k/a “RaBoy," with the Sept. 27, 2014, attempted...