News from February 2020
By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Jan. 13, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision against Great Lakes Cattle Marketing Company, LLC (Great Lakes) and Gary Labor (Labor) of Saint Louis, Mich., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of MICHAEL MATTHEWS, 58, to 180 months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm. MATTHEWS, who was charged on January 4, 2019, was sentenced yesterday before Judge Eric C. Tostrud in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Providence man, one of twenty-six individuals arrested during an eighteen month Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation into firearms and drug trafficking in and around Providence in 2017 and 2018, was sentenced on Thursday to twenty-four months in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette will be visiting Vienna, Austria; Lisbon, Portugal; and Munich, Germany for a series of events with government officials and stakeholders.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Health Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) today released the following statement on the surprise medical billing proposals from the House Education and Labor Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Khalid M. Chadder, age 50, of Ticonderoga, New York, pled guilty yesterday to conspiring to defraud Medicaid.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Dear Director Mulvaney: We write to express concern regarding the Trump Administration’s previous attempts to cut funding for infectious disease and pandemic preparedness and response and to urge you to fully fund such efforts in your fiscal year 2021 proposed budget, as the world addresses the current...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Cambridge man was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston with firearms trafficking related to six separate sales. In addition, the defendant is also charged with the sale of crack cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey today delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in support of, an emergency supplemental appropriations bill to provide support to Puerto Rico following a series of recent earthquakes.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- Reclamation's February forecast of the April through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn River Basin is as follows...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) today released the following statement on the surprise medical billing proposals from the House Education and Labor Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Rose Beth Litzky (33, Palm Bay) to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring to sexually exploit children, sexually exploiting children, and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - On February 6, 2020, after a three-day trial, a federal jury convicted Zachary Fuchs, 37, of possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty verdict today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: TYLER, Texas -A 53-year-old Tyler, Texas woman has been sentenced to federal prison for violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown and FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. DeSarno today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An El Paso, Texas, man from whom officers seized nearly $500,000 in illegal drug proceeds pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy that distributed more than 720 kilograms of cocaine in the metropolitan area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Greensburg, PA, has been sentenced to 41 months’ imprisonment, 3 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $15,000 fine after his conviction for violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: ELLIJAY, Ga., Feb. 7, 2020 - Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Georgia State Director Joyce White announced a $4.4 million investment in high-speed broadband infrastructure. This investment will support the construction of 90 miles of fiber-optic infrastructure in Gilmer...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas announced that seven (7) individuals were sentenced by the United States District Court for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Judge P.K. Holmes, III presided over the sentencing hearings in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Dexter Nash, 34, of Lake Charles, was sentenced February 6, 2020, by U.S. District Judge James D. Cain Jr., to 24 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and 60 months in prison for possession of a firearm...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking good homes for wild horses and burros during its adoption and sale event planned for February 21- 23 at the Everett Bowman Rodeo Grounds in Wickenburg, Ariz.
