LOS ANGELES, California, June 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: The Justice Department today announced a 10-count superseding indictment charging Los Angeles-based associates of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel with conspiring with money-laundering groups linked to Chinese underground banking to launder drug trafficking proceeds. During the conspiracy, more than $50 million in drug proceeds flowed between the  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: Alex Altoh, 64, of Roseville, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit money laundering, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, between January 2021 and November 2021, Altoh and his co-defendant Oumar Sidibe, 30, were involved in a conspiracy to launder the proceeds from two large business email comp  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: Holly Danielle Adams, 34, of Indio, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine and to conspiring to launder money, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, between 2020 and 2022, Adams and co-conspirator Devlin Hosner, 35, operated vendor accounts on the dark web marketp  more

WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Drug Enforcement Administration posted the following news release on June 18, 2024: The Justice Department today announced a 10-count superseding indictment charging Los Angeles-based associates of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel with conspiring with money-laundering groups linked to Chinese underground banking to launder drug trafficking proceeds. During the conspiracy, more than $50 million in drug proceeds flowed between the Sinaloa Cartel  more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, June 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release on June 17, 2024: In July 2022, amidst a mechanical hum and complicated array of equipment filled with technicolor liquids, newly hired chemical engineering intern Rachel Umpleby learned, hands-on, about solvent extraction at one of Idaho National Laboratory's (INL) many pilot programs. What's more, she was learning from experienced aqueous separations and radioche  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 18 -- The Judicial Council of California issued the following opinion (No. B329282) on June 17, 2024: * * * In the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Second Appellate District, Division Six MARIA CHAVEZ, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ALCO HARVESTING, LLC, et al., Defendants and Respondents. Plaintiff Maria Chavez appeals after the trial court sustained without leave to amend the demurrer of Defendant Alco Harvesting, LLC (Alco). Plaintiff alleged her husba  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following readout of Office for Access to Justice Director Rachel Rossi's trip to Los Angeles: * * * Director Rachel Rossi of the Office for Access to Justice (ATJ) traveled to Los Angeles last week to engage access to justice stakeholders and deliver the commencement address at Le Lycee Francais de Los Angeles. To further inform the office's broad-ranging efforts to support reentry and reduce recidivism, Director Rossi and ATJ   more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on June 17, 2024: A Southern California man pleaded guilty yesterday to preparing and filing false tax returns for his clients. According to court documents and statements made in court, starting in 2013, Salvador Gonzalez, of Corona, operated Grace's Lighthouse Resource Center Inc., a return-preparation business. Since then, Gonzalez has prepared or assisted in the preparation of more than 11,000 tax retur  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on June 17, 2024: The Justice Department, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), today announced a civil enforcement action against Adobe Inc. and two Adobe executives, Maninder Sawhney and David Wadhwani, for alleged violations of the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act (ROSCA). The lawsuit alleges that the defendants imposed a hidden "Early Termination Fee" on millions of online subscribers   more

WASHINGTON, June 17 (TNSrep) -- The Government Accountability Office issued the following report: Here are excerpts: * * * Fast Facts States must ensure school districts identify students who need English language services to participate fully in the classroom. States must also ensure that all children with disabilities residing in their state are evaluated. In this Q&A, we reported on how schools identify students needing English services. It can be hard to determine whether a specific edu  more

NEW BERN, North Carolina, June 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina issued the following news release: Timothy Mark Blackmon, a 29-year-old resident of Burgaw, has been sentenced to 198 months in prison for possessing counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl with the intent to distribute them in the Wilmington area. The counterfeit pills were made to look like a variety of prescription drugs, including Percocet, Hydrocodone and Oxycodone. Blackmon pled g  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health issued the following news release on June 17, 2024: * * * NIH-funded study shows treatment of condition fell short; suggests need for improved strategies. * * * The prevalence of chronic hypertension in pregnancy in the United States doubled from 2007-2021, but only about 60% of those with the potentially life-threatening condition were treated with antihypertensive medications, according t  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, June 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: The leader of an international drug trafficking organization operating in Lane County, Oregon, responsible for trafficking large quantities of methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine into the state between 2018 and 2020, was sentenced to federal prison today. Victor Diaz-Ramirez, 33, was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison and five years' supervised rel  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: PUBLIC NOTICE SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation today announces continued public negotiation sessions with the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority for an Operations Agreement and Cost Share Agreement for the B.F. Sisk Dam and Reservoir Expansion Project, located on the west side of California's Central Valley near Los Banos. Reclamation and SLDMWA are partner  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: PUBLIC NOTICE SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation today announces continued public negotiation sessions with the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority for an Operations Agreement and Cost Share Agreement for the B.F. Sisk Dam and Reservoir Expansion Project, located on the west side of California's Central Valley near Los Banos. Reclamation and SLDMWA are partner  more