News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Nevada Fraudster Sentenced to More Than Five Years in Prison for Role in Scheme to File False Tax Returns Using Stolen Identities.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL VADAKIN, 29, of Derby, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for possessing child pornography. Vadakin must serve the first four months of his supervised release in home confinement.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
Release: USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is extending the comment period on the draft pest risk assessments for apricot, nectarine, peach, European plum, and Japanese plum for consumption from Australia for 30 days. This action will allow interested parties additional time to prepare ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Amid intensifying anger over the rising cost of medicines, a key piece of data has been missing from the debate - the actual prices after accounting for rebates and discounts offered by drug makers to payers. Now, a new analysis has come up with some numbers and the results are illuminating: Over a recent 11-year period, net prices for hundreds of drugs rose 60%, which was 3.5 times the inflation rate.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Four Defendants Charged in Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - After a two-day trial, Oneil Wayne South, of Fairmont, West Virginia, was found guilty today by a federal jury of a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: FBI Announces $25,000 Reward for Information Involving 2018 West Baltimore Double Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERIC RUNDSTROM, 45, of Wallingford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to one count of receipt and possession of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Join us March 28, as Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning and Obed Wild & Scenic River work together during this annual volunteer river cleanup event. It's also a great opportunity to explore different sections of the Obed River System, as well as meet and work with fellow volunteers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERIC RUNDSTROM, 45, of Wallingford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to one count of receipt and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney A. Lance Crick announced today that Bruce Allen Howland, 58, of Easley, South Carolina, was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to violating federal drug distribution laws.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Kalamazoo County, Michigan, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to excessive rain that occurred March 9, 2019, through Nov. 4, 2019, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
Release: Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL), Chair of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request for the Department of the Treasury.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX - On Wednesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed Salvadoran national Jonathan Alexander Mejia-Santos, 31, to El Salvador. Mejia-Santos is wanted by law enforcement officials in his home country for allegedly participating in a murder related to gang activity. Once in El Salvador, ICE ERO transferred custody to the Policia Nacional Civil (PNC) of El Salvador.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Joshua Matthew Spencer, 30, of Franklin County, Missouri, pleaded guilty to his involvement in conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Spencer appeared in federal court today before United States District Judge John R. Ross who accepted his plea and set his sentencing date for June 10, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida joined Attorney General William P. Barr in announcing today the Department of Justice’s National Nursing Home Initiative, which will coordinate and enhance civil and criminal efforts to pursue nursing homes that provide grossly substandard care to their residents.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: The final rule for the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP), administered by USDA’s Farm Service Agency, was published in the Federal Register on March 2, 2020. As required by the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, this rule implements changes to NAP, making buy-up coverage levels available...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal jury in Las Cruces, New Mexico returned a guilty verdict on Mar. 3 convicting James Christopher Benvie, 45, of Albany, Minnesota, of two counts of false personation of a Border Patrol agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Defense Department Linguist Charged with Espionage.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the arrests of Justin Latronica (30, Orange Park), James Allen Shook (48, Weeki Wachee), and Timothy Veres, III (Jacksonville, 24) for attempted online enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. Veres was also charged with soliciting for images depicting the sexual abuse of a child. Each faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison.
