News from February 2020
By USDA Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 24, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) today announced a new pilot program that enables farmers in the Prairie Pothole region to receive payments for planting perennial cover for conservation use for three to five years. The new Conservation...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: VIENNA, Va.- Join National Park Service staff and Friends of Wolf Trap volunteers on Sunday, March 1, from 1-3 p.m., for a celebration of the park’s founder and leading lady Mrs. Catherine Filene Shouse. Mrs. Shouse was a philanthropist, advocate, and trailblazer who founded Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - One of two men charged with delivering crack cocaine at the direction of an ACI inmate who ran a drug trafficking conspiracy from inside the state prison was sentenced today to five years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman and Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Kelly D. Brady.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached a settlement agreement with the Comfort Inn in Guilford, to resolve allegations that the hotel was not in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA").
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Week of Feb. 17, 2020. LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced the resolution of two Project Safe Childhood cases last week, each separately noted. SENTENCING - JOHN MICHAEL WARD. Westlake Man Sentenced to 60 Years in Federal Prison for Production of Child Pornography...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Feb. 21, 2020, Wayne Grills (age 57), Melrose Park, IL was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release. The Court further imposed a restitution order for $8,515.80 and a special assessment of $100.00.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.8 million grant to 3CORE, Inc. of Chico, California, to establish a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) to create stronger and more economically resilient communities...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Coldy D. Hackworth, age 30, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for Passing Counterfeit Currency and for being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Senior United States District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Winnemucca, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) to analyze and disclose environmental impacts associated with the proposed mine expansion of the Coeur Rochester and Packard Mines. The mines are located 26 miles northeast of Lovelock in Pershing County, Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Mr. President, this week the Senate is having yet another debate on legislation restricting women’s health care. Let me give you the basic idea of what this debate is going to be all about.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Des Moines, Iowa-On Feb. 24, 2020, Brandon Robert Fry, age 39, of Creston, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 188 months in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. Fry was ordered to serve five years of supervised release to follow his prison term and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Lois Soito, 60, of Horseshoe Bend, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for wire fraud U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Soito to serve three years of supervised release following her release from prison and to pay $1,483,963.82 in restitution. Soito pleaded guilty on Nov. 13, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today the City of West Sacramento’s water service contract negotiation sessions.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 163,290 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to Mexico during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that, following a six-week trial, a federal jury has convicted CBL/BFL Gang member Dalvon Curry, 23, of Buffalo, NY, of murder in aid of racketeering; racketeering and narcotics conspiracy; possession of firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence; and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The charges carry a mandatory penalty of life in prison, and a $10,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A McAllen woman has been taken into custody following the return of an indictment alleging she made a false statement to authorities in a bribery investigation involving alien detainee roster lists, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A urologist was sentenced today to 71 months in federal prison for submitting fraudulent billings totaling more than $700,000 to Medicare for medically unnecessary and nonexistent treatments, sometimes billing for purported patient visits miles apart and occurring at the exact same time.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Connie Stephens, 43, a Ripley, Tennessee resident, has been sentenced to 168 months imprisonment for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute actual methamphetamine. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Former Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Deputy Antione Riggins has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison following his guilty plea to drug trafficking and making a false statement to cover up his drug crimes. Riggins committed these crimes while employed as a federal and local law enforcement officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former Holyoke kindergarten teacher pleaded guilty on Friday, February 21st in federal court in Worcester to possession of child pornography.
