News from March 2020
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failing to meet their contractual obligations...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Founder of Russian Bank Charged with Tax Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Kirbyville, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine in southwest Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that two women and one man were sentenced to prison for their involvement in several armed robberies of taxi cab drivers and two gas stations in Milwaukee in August 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Today before a federal judge, Frank Richard Beyer (a/k/a “Rick Beyer"), 75, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, pled guilty to possessing child pornography that included images of boys under age 12 engaged in sex acts and exposing their genitals.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: On March 3, 2020 United States District Court Judge William H. Steele sentenced two drug smugglers, Jeison Cambindo-Barahona and Marino Caido-Cardenas, both Columbian nationals, to one hundred and thirty five months confinement for being caught smuggling 800 kilograms of cocaine in international waters off the coast of Panama. The two men previously plead guilty to the charge in November 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - A former Manito, Ill., man, Jonathan Edward Rakestraw, 36, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. On Feb. 28, 2020, Chief U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow sentenced Rakestraw to 15 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine in Schuyler County, Ill., in September 2018. Rakestraw was found to have approximately 118 grams of ice methamphetamine in his possession. On Oct. 2, 2019, Rakestraw pleaded guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a Cochise County superior court judge sentenced Timothy Henry, a Sierra Vista drug distributor, to 14 years in prison. Henry’s co-defendants, Jaime Rene Leza, Jennifer Sue Phillips, and Shalmarie Tulk, were all previously convicted and sentenced for their role assisting Henry traffic drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert S. Huie (619) 546-7053.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former owner of a Studio City medical clinic was sentenced today to 37 months in federal prison for causing more than $11.5 million in bills to be submitted to health care benefit programs for unnecessary - and sometimes nonexistent - sleep studies, primarily for employees of United Parcel Service, Inc., and Costco Wholesale Corp.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that PFI Express Inc. satisfied a reparation order in the amount of $57,638 issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving unpaid produce transaction(s).
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies will hold a public witness hearing on March 31, 2020, at 2:00 p.m. in 2362-B Rayburn House Office Building for those who wish to provide input for the FY2021 Appropriations bill.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: BRAINTREE, MA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Dollar Tree Stores Inc. for exit, storage and fire hazards at a store in Boston, Massachusetts. The national discount retailer faces $523,745 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Michael David Kirk, 31, a former Navy sailor, was sentenced today in federal court by Chief United States District Judge J. Michael Seabright to 120 months in prison and 15 years of supervised release for attempted sexual enticement of three minor females on a social media application.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - A former Manito, Illinois. man, Jonathan Edward Rakestraw, 36, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. On Feb. 28, 2020, Chief U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow sentenced Rakestraw to 15 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine in Schuyler County, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 28-year-old Dallas, Texas, man has been convicted of federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BARBARA MEYZEN, a/k/a “Bobbie Meyzen," the owner and operator of La Cremaillere Restaurant in Banksville, New York, pled guilty to wire fraud in connection with her multi-year scheme to defraud the restaurant’s lenders, mortgagee, bankruptcy creditors, and customers. MEYZEN pled guilty before the Honorable Vincent L. Briccetti in White Plains federal court today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to eight years in prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Cincinnati, Ohio man, Edvey L. Belton, 32, was sentenced in federal court on Thursday, to 216 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning, for conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of a substance containing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - Two defendants arrested during “Operation End Game," a multi-agency effort targeting and arresting adult perpetrators seeking sex with children, made appearances in federal court Wednesday, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Andrew Leo Schafer, 53...
