News from June 2020
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing a joint project to develop a certification program for high-consequence swine diseases. In coordination with The Iowa State University (ISU) Center for Food Security and ISU Veterinary Diagnostic ...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Fargo, North Dakota, June 23 - Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have shed new light this spring on strategies used to ensure the survival of two very different pollinators.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: More Than $2 Million is Awarded to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - Today, a federal judge in South Florida sentenced Eric Lin, 35, of Clarksburg, Maryland, to five years in prison, plus three years of supervised release after prison, for making repeated on-line threatening communications that targeted Hispanics. The judge imposed the maximum sentence under the statute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Homestead, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - A Pikeville man, Richard Starghill, 43, was sentenced on Tuesday, to 240 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Court Judge Karen Caldwell, following his convictions for being a felon in possession of a pistol and sawed-off shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Department of Justice‘s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) today announced nearly $42 million in funding to support state-level law enforcement agencies in combating the illegal manufacturing and distribution of methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil, and prescription opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Kelly Villalobos (49, Ponte Vedra) has pleaded guilty to making a false statement to a federally licensed firearms dealer. Villalobos faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Hot Springs, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Tyler Merle Cable, age 34, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, was sentenced on June 22, 2020 to a total of 84 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Kyle A. Riggs, 34, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 150 months in prison for distributing child pornography. This term of imprisonment is to be followed by 10 years of supervised release. Riggs pleaded guilty to this charge on Jan. 13, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Dominican national convicted in a massive fraud scheme that resulted in tens of thousands of stolen credit card numbers and the stolen personal identifying information of thousands of individuals being used to defraud banks of at nearly $1.3 million dollars was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence today to 41 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: More Than $2 Million Is Awarded to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FRANK GIOVINCO was sentenced yesterday to 48 months in prison for extortion conspiracy and participating in a racketeering conspiracy in connection with the Genovese Crime Family’s control of two local chapters of a labor union. GIOVINCO was convicted on Dec. 3, 2019, following a six-day trial before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff, who also sentenced GIOVINCO.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Susan Engonwei Tingwei, 42, of Silver Spring, Maryland, and Janet Akindipe, 62, of Laurel, Maryland, were both arrested today after being charged in federal court with defrauding the D.C. Medicaid program, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin; James A. Dawson, Special Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - The Kansas Bureau of Investigation will receive a $1 million grant to fight methamphetamine trafficking, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: I am pleased to welcome two new staff joining the U.S. Census Bureau, Nathaniel Cogley, PhD. as Deputy Director for Policy, and Adam Korzeniewski, as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Director for Policy.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 132,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: GREENSBORO, NC - The Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) today announced nearly $42 million in funding to support state-level law enforcement agencies in combating the illegal manufacturing and distribution of methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil, and prescription opioids, of which $2,062,770 has been awarded to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Ocala, FL - Roy Jones (58, Ocala) has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jeremy Ray Warren, 26, of Vallejo, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 17 years in prison for conspiring to engage in sex trafficking of a child, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
