News from August 2019
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: Pecos, NM: Beginning August 14th, Pecos National Historical Park will offer fall fishing permits for the Pecos River within the park boundaries. The 2019 fall fishing season will beginSeptember 12th and end November 4th.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement regarding announcement of a temporary truce in Libya. The truce comes after months of clashes between the United Nations-backed backed Government of National Accord (GNA) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: Four Men Sentenced to Prison for Engaging in a Child Exploitation Enterprise on the Tor Network.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) applauded the U.S. Department of the Interior's final rule making regulatory updates to the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Barrasso is chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW). Last year, Barrasso released draft legislation to modernize the ESA. Barrasso continues to collaborate with stakeholders to improve the draft legislation.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: FREDERICK, Md.: Join the National Park Service for a rare opportunity to tour the historic Thomas House at Monocacy National Battlefield. The house will open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Aug. 17, 2019. There will be a display of historic clothing, docents to guide people through the house and basement, as well as formal programs at 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. The event is free.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Soldier Creek, South Dakota, man convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter was sentenced on Aug. 12, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated nine Tennessee counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Claiborne, Giles, Grainger, Hamblen, Lake, Lincoln, Montgomery, Shelby, and Tipton counties who suffered losses due to excessive rain and flooding that occurred from Aug. 1, 2018, through March 5, 2019, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: Robber of Jewelry and Gemstones Extradited From Colombia to the United States Sentenced to Prison for Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Colombian national arrested in Colombia and extradited to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 33 months in prison in federal court in Pittsburgh for his role in the Hobbs Act robbery of an employee of a New York business that sold jewelry and gemstones.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) praised the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to grant small refineries hardship relief under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) for compliance year 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) released the final changes to three proposed rules of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). These changes undermine the intention of ESA and put thousands of species at risk of extinction at a time when scientists aresounding the alarms that we are losing species at unprecedented rates.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md. - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a plan for prioritizing federal agency engagement in the development of standards for artificial intelligence (AI). The plan recommends that the federal government “commit to deeper, consistent, long-term engagement" in activities to help the United States speed the pace of reliable, robust and trustworthy AI technology development.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI Looks for Man Who Allegedly Absconded from Pre-Trial Release in Albuquerque.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A member of the New Jersey Grape Street Crips appeared in court today on charges that include two attempted murders charged as part of a RICO conspiracy, as well as narcotics trafficking, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: In Midland today, 62-year-old David King pleaded guilty to a federal child pornography production charge, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, F.B.I. Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., El Paso Division, and Ector County Sheriff Mike Griffis.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. today announced that Aaron J. McDuffie, a/k/a “G", 24, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of distribution of heroin and butyryl fentanyl causing death, and distribution of fentanyl, butyryl fentanyl, and furanyl fentanyl causing death, was sentenced to serve 262 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney’s Office today announced the sentencing of Shakeel Kahn and his brother Nabeel Kahn on federal charges of operating a continuing criminal enterprise and conspiring to distribute prescription medications, which resulted in the death Jessica Burch. The sentencing follows a nearly four week trial that concluded in May 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - The United States has filed a False Claims Act complaint against Robert C. Burkich, M.D and Preventative Medicine Anti-Aging & Chelation, Inc. (hereinafter, the “Burkich defendants"). The lawsuit alleges that the Burkich defendants were responsible for the submission of false claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary chelation therapy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Brooklyn, New York, man convicted of Wire Fraud, Conspiracy to Defraud the Government, and False Claim was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced today that the United States has simultaneously filed and settled a civil injunction lawsuit against MICHAEL N. SCHWARTZ, a certified public accountant in New York City, to permanently enjoin him from organizing...
