News from December 2019
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
The US Interior Department published a three page rule on Dec. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 18, 2019
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Dec. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau (the Bureau) will provide up to a $501.5 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan to the North Carolina Turnpike Authority (NCTA) to help finance the Complete 540 Project in the greater Raleigh area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: In Austin today, a federal judge sentenced 35-year-old Lukman Shina Aminu of Manchester, NH, to 51 months in federal prison today for his alleged scheme to launder over a million dollars from multiple fraudulent schemes, including thousands stolen from former Texas state employees retirement plans, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Justice Department Seeks to Denaturalize Michigan Man Who Was Convicted in Israel.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: In Austin today, a federal judge sentenced 35-year-old Lukman Shina Aminu of Manchester, NH, to 51 months in federal prison today for his alleged scheme to launder over a million dollars from multiple fraudulent schemes, including thousands stolen from former Texas state employees retirement plans, announced...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Wells Field Office (WFO) has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) DOI-BLM-NV-E030-2019-0010-EA titled “Big Ledge Mine Plan Amendment" to analyze the impacts of multiple Plan of Operations amendments submitted to the BLM WFO for the Big Ledge Barite Mine.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: GREENVILLE, S.C. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested unlawfully present Honduran national Valentin Bardales-Antunez on Dec. 13, during Operation Noble Guardian. Bardales-Antunez was arrested at the Greenville-Spartanburg Airport while attempting to arrange travel for a minor child being sent back to Honduras via commercial airline.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Bonnie Hughes, 35, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of production of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 25 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Yanyan Lesser, 48, of East Aurora, NY, who was convicted of transmitting in interstate or foreign commerce a communication containing a threat to injure another person, was sentenced to time served and one year supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin Scott C. Blader announced that James A. Conner III, 44, La Crosse, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 48 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine. Conner pleaded guilty to this charge on Oct. 7, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Mesa Verde National Park would like to wish Happy Holidays to all our visitors. Though the Visitor and Research Center, along with the Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum will be closed on Dec. 24, 25 and Jan. 1, the park will remain open, weather permitting. Visitors will be able to enjoy the Mesa Top Loop drive, the Spruce Tree House Overlook near the museum and the upper portion of the Petroglyph Point Trail. The Far View Sites Complex is also available.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that GORDON FREEDMAN, a doctor who practiced in New York, New York, pled guilty today to one count of distributing oxycodone and fentanyl to a patient for no legitimate medical purpose, which resulted in the overdose of the patient. FREEDMAN pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced CLARENCE DONNELL GENERETTE, a/k/a “Murda," 56, of Fayetteville, NC, today. GENERETTE was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - The leader of a large drug trafficking organization, James C. Hull, 41, of Baton Rouge, was sentenced as part of Operation Hidden Fee, an extensive federal, state and local investigation by the Middle District Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force aimed at a drug trafficking network based and operating in Baton Rouge, announced DEA New Orleans Division Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: FARMINGTON, NM - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico has announced the appointment of Al Elser as the Farmington District Manager. Elser was sworn in to his position at a ceremony in Farmington on Dec. 11, 2019 by BLM New Mexico State Director Tim Spisak.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: (LEWISTOWN, Mont.) - Prescribed fire is one way the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) actively manages the landscape to promote healthy, resilient forests and rangelands. By removing the buildup of hazardous fuels, prescribed fires also reduce the risk of future catastrophic wildland fires.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Florida man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for cyberstalking and threatening his former schoolmate, a 30-year-old Massachusetts woman.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: In a new report requested and released today by Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Forest Service has not complied with a provision in the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) Act that limits the amount of land the agency can acquire using LWCF money.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - WENDELL L. REEVES, 32, has been sentenced to 120 months in prison for possessing ammunition after a felony conviction, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
