News from January 2020
By USDA Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 15, 2020 - USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) encourages agricultural producers to enroll now in the Agriculture Risk (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs. March 15, 2020 is the enrollment deadline for the 2019 crop year.
By State Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Senators Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), chairman and ranking member of the Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Malden woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with a scheme to embezzle more than $795,000 from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Two Individuals Sentenced in Connection with Work on Behalf of Iran.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - In 2019, visitation to Yellowstone National Park was at the lowest level it has been since 2014. The park recorded over 4 million visits, a 2.3 percent decrease from 2018 and a 5.6 percent decrease from the record-breaking year in 2016.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An historic collection of 34 stone projectile points, some determined to be more than 1,000 years old, were returned Jan. 15, to Rhode Island’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology more than 30 years after they first vanished from the museum’s collections, thanks to the joint efforts of U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - Alexander Taylor pleaded guilty today to impersonating a federal officer, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux. The Honorable Lucy H. Koh, U.S. district judge, accepted the guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa.-A former resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Reanna Danielle Campbell, 26, of Franklin County, MO, pleaded guilty to her involvement in conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. Campbell appeared in federal court today before United States District Judge John A. Ross who accepted her plea and set her sentencing date for April 23, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - Dean Allen McBaine, 31, of Jefferson City, MO, was sentenced to 60 months in prison following his conviction by a jury in October for one count of possessing an unregistered destructive device. McBaine appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Audrey G. Fleissig who ordered McBaine to pay restitution in the amount of $34,705.21.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Jan. 14, 2020, Elvira Contreras, 38, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 18 months’ imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. Contreras had previously pleaded guilty to wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: An employee of Cummins Bridgeway, LLC (“CBL") and Cummins Inc. (“Cummins"), two Michigan-based companies operating in New Hudson, pleaded guilty yesterday to devising a scheme that defrauded his employer of over $4 million, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for the unlicensed transportation of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, issued a statement reminding all Wisconsin residents to file accurate tax returns as the deadline for filing federal income tax returns is Wednesday, April 15. Although the filing season is just beginning, the U.S. Attorney’s...
By State Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today held a committee business meeting to markup H.R.5430, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act (USMCA), and four ambassadorial nominees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Concord - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Henry Marte, 22, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced on Tuesday to 78 months in federal prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has indicted five individuals alleged to be members of one of the most prolific online drug trafficking organizations in the United States. The indictment was returned and unsealed in Cincinnati.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
Release: Washington, D.C., Jan. 15, 2020 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has finalized an interpretive rule clarifying the Agency’s ability to maintain a funding reserve in its Agricultural Quarantine Inspection (AQI) User Fee Program. APHIS’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - Corey Baker, age 24, of Clintondale, New York, pled guilty today to distributing and receiving child pornography.
