News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, an indictment was unsealed charging Benjamin Conde, Chief Executive Officer of Essex Global Investments and President of Facultas Capital Management, and Lawrence Isen, the owner of Marketbyte, LLC, a purported stock promotion firm, with conducting a...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: Let’s prescribe a dose of common sense: End spread-pricing in Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Terrance B. Fletcher, of Dover, Delaware, was sentenced to 36 months incarceration for distributing heroin, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: Florence, South Carolina - United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that the United States Attorney’s Office; the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services; South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce; SC Works; South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation;...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man pleaded guilty today to aiding and abetting the straw purchase of multiple firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael T. Mann, age 49, of Saratoga County, New York, appeared in federal court today on a criminal complaint charging him with committing a $70 million bank fraud.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor has selected 12 members to serve on the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH). The members, four of whom were designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), represent occupational health, occupational safety, labor, management, and public interests. The newly appointed members include...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $986 million in airport infrastructure grants, the fifth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: RIVIERA BEACH, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Oldcastle APG South Inc. - based in Greensboro, North Carolina, and operating as Coastal, for exposing employees to amputation, struck-by and silica hazards at the company’s facility in Riviera Beach, Florida. Oldcastle APG South Inc. faces $132,037 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Thirty eight people have been charged with federal drug offenses, and at least a dozen more individuals face state charges, as part of a 10-week coordinated enforcement operation in the Merrimack Valley called “Devil’s Highway." Authorities seized more than 14 kilograms of fentanyl, 29 kilograms of cocaine, four firearms and body armor during 10-week enforcement operation.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
Release: Summary: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) added the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the list of regions affected by African swine fever (ASF). On May 30, 2019, the veterinary authorities of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAFAEL ARROYO, 34, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to narcotics distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today a partnership between the USVI Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative and members of the faith-based community to encourage information-sharing and coordination as a means of combatting...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Nicholas Wayne Deminds, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 57 months incarceration for distributing fentanyl, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Portersville, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine, and heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A former Pawtucket man who, while incarcerated in the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI), made arrangements for the disposal of a firearm stored at his residence, and within six weeks of his release from state prison in April 2019 was arrested for twice selling crack cocaine to an undercover law enforcement officer who lived in Massachusetts, was sentenced today to 5 years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: This report summarizes 2017 e-commerce statistics on shipments, sales and revenues from key sectors of the economy: manufacturing, wholesale, services and retail. These statistics are available for the nation from 1998.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $986million in airport infrastructure grants, the fifth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in exchanging $3.49 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for cash, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
