News from September 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement after Senate Democrats voted to block consideration of targeted pandemic response legislation that would have provided relief to small businesses, struggling farmers and unemployed Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig sentenced Charles T. McRoberts to 120 months in prison Sept. 10. The 50-year-old Wentzville resident was charged with possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A Middle Georgia drug dealer, arrested following a two-month undercover operation in Butts County, has pleaded guilty for distribution of methamphetamine, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: SOUTH BEND -Jessie Richardson, 33, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio upon his plea of guilty for making a threat to injure through a means of interstate communication, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - On Aug. 20, 2020, a federal grand jury indicted Kimberly LeBaron on three counts of mail fraud. The 61 year old is a resident of Kirksville. LeBaron appeared, today, in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Nannette A. Baker for her initial appearance/arraignment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings man accused of strangling a woman at a Crow Agency residence admitted assault charges today, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, KY- A Lexington, Ky., man, Prince Bixler, 41, was convicted on Wednesday by a federal jury in Frankfort, Ky., for charges related to his extensive and violent sex and drug trafficking operation that sold crack cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine throughout the Lexington area and forced young, drug-addicted women to prostitute.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - A 31-year-old former officer and resident of Maurepas, Louisiana, has been arrested in McAllen for possession with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick and Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) - San Antonio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Additional defendants arrested and charged in the District of New Jersey, Northern District of Ohio and the State of New Jersey.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The alleged leader of a major human smuggling organization that had smuggled individuals from the Middle East (primarily Iran) into South America, the United States, Canada and Europe was arrested Saturday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) provided significant assistance to the Brazil Federal Police to arrest Reza Sahami, a dual citizen of Canada and Iran, on human smuggling charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Katina Maria Martinez, 48, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on September 9, 2020, by United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and for conspiracy to launder the...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: A fungal tenant of sorts that lives inside wheat plants could get its chance to "pay it forward" in the fight against fusarium head blight (a.k.a. scab), a costly disease of cereal crops worldwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - The owner of two Rhode Island businesses that supply steel and iron to construction sites today admitted that over a period of two years he intentionally failed to turn over to the IRS in excess of $570,000 in employment taxes withheld from his employees. Instead, he admitted, he used the funds to finance personal expenditures such as rent payments on a luxury home and online dating services.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: * The Old Faithful Overpass Bridge remains closed as repair work continues. The closure allows crews full access to the entire deck surface and approach lanes. This work includes deck repairs, new approach slabs, new curbing, girder repairs, railing improvements, and the removal and replacement of deck drains.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary Ross: In June 2018, you were asked at a Finance Committee hearing about when our consumers could see relief from high steel prices. The question was prompted by concerns that the Section 232 national security tariffs on imported steel could allow certain actors to manipulate and distort...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, SD - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for failing to protect employees from exposure to the coronavirus. OSHA proposed a penalty of $13,494, the maximum allowed by law.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 195,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: On Tuesday of this week, a federal grand jury for the Southern District of Illinois returned an.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Essex County, New Jersey, men - a compliance safety and health officer (CSHO) with the U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and his brother - are scheduled to appear today on charges that they conspired to extort $6,000 in cash from a general contractor, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management has awarded a contract for construction of the Sutey Ranch Trailhead. The trailhead will be closed for up to five weeks during construction activities beginning September 28.
