News published on Federal Newswire in October 2019

News from October 2019


Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park Announces Four Finalist Photos for the 2020 Annual Fort Moultrie Park Pass

News Release: SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, SC - Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park’s Superintendent Tracy Stakely has selected 4 finalist photos for the 2020 Annual Fort Moultrie pass. The photo with the highest vote total will be featured on this pass. The public will be able to start voting for their favorite...


Shenandoah National Park Selects Artist Jerry Ginsberg for the October Artist-in-Residence Program

News Release: Luray, Virginia: Shenandoah National Park is pleased to announce the selection of Jerry Ginsberg as the October Artist-in-Residence. Jerry strives to capture the very best of nature’s beauty through photography and has photographed all sixty one of the National Parks with his medium format camera. His photographs have been published in hundreds of magazines, books and travel catalogs.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS - MARTIN ALONSO ACEVES CUSTODIO, a/k/a Robin Birmingham, a/k/a ALA, age 29, LIZA FLANERY FIERRO, a/k/a LIE, age 33, CLAUDIA ELENA ANTILLON ZAHUITA, a/k/a Julie Batista, a/k/a KLA, age 36, SERGIO LEON KURI, a/k/a “LNK, age 38, JESUS ADRIAN LEDESMA BERNAL, a/k/a JSS, age 31, and JULIO CESAR...


News Release: MOOSE, WY-The unpaved section of the Moose-Wilson Road in Grand Teton National Park will be temporarily closed for road grading beginning at 8 p.m. Tuesday, October 8 and will reopen by 6 a.m. Wednesday, October 9. If the road maintenance work is not completed during this one night, the road will also be closed the following night during the same timeframe.


News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Fairfax attorney today on charges of conspiring to defraud and to launder fraud proceeds totaling over $1.5 million, including funds embezzled from Virginia State Senator Richard Saslaw’s campaign account, a Canadian business, and an organization intended to support students with autism and other intellectual disabilities.


Millstone Man Sentenced to 140 Months for Distribution of Cocaine and Possession of a Firearm

News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky.- A Millstone, Kentucky, man, who previously admitted to distributing cocaine and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, was sentenced Friday to 140 months in federal prison.


News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Royal Gorge Field Office and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Pike-San Isabel National Forests and Comanche-Cimarron National Grasslands (PSICC) today announced the release of the draft plan for managing the Browns Canyon National Monument. The agencies...


Temporary TSA Pre✓® Application Center to Open for Appointments Inside Long Island MacArthur Airport Terminal

Release: RONKONKOMA, N.Y. - Residents of Long Island will be able to enroll in the Transportation Security Administration’s popular TSA Pre✓® application program inside the Long Island MacArthur Airport terminal from October 14 to 18, where officials will host a temporary “pop-up" TSA Pre✓® enrollment center.


News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CARL ANDERSON, a state licensed doctor, pled guilty today to writing medically unnecessary prescriptions for oxycodone. ANDERSON pled guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin N. Fox, and will be sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Lorna G. Schofield at a later date.


Six Mexican Nationals Indicted in Timeshare Telemarketing Scam

News Release: NEW ORLEANS - MARTIN ALONSO ACEVES CUSTODIO, a/k/a Robin Birmingham, a/k/a ALA, age 29, LIZA FLANERY FIERRO, a/k/a LIE, age 33, CLAUDIA ELENA ANTILLON ZAHUITA, a/k/a Julie Batista, a/k/a KLA, age 36, SERGIO LEON KURI, a/k/a “LNK, age 38, JESUS ADRIAN LEDESMA BERNAL, a/k/a JSS, age 31, and JULIO CESAR...


Former online brokerage employee sentenced to prison for wire fraud

News Release: Texas man engaged in kick-back scheme, inflating account referral numbers for personal gain.


HSI computer forensic analyst honored as Tampa Bay Hispanic Hero

News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Being a hero is not a term used lightly, but a Tampa Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) computer forensic analyst is being honored with the title again.


News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the conviction of NORRIS DESHON ANDREWS, 34, for illegally possessing a firearm. The jury found ANDREWS guilty following a ten-day trial before Judge Susan Richard Nelson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.


News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Antonio Laver Jones, 33, of Three Rivers, was arrested without incident on October 3 on a federal complaint for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. If convicted, Jones faces up to 10 years in prison. The arrest was the result ...


Two Effingham County Area Drug Dealers Sentenced on Methamphetamine Related Charges

News Release: Maggie L. Matlock, 30, of Mason, Illinois, and Nathan G. Kirkley, 25, of Gays, Illinois, were.



FBI Seeking Information from Bank Robbery in Shawnee, Oklahoma

News Release: FBI Seeking Information from Bank Robbery in Shawnee, Oklahoma.


BLM releases final supplemental environmental impact statement, proposed amendment for Miles City resource management plan

News Release: MILES CITY, Mont. - The Bureau of Land Management Montana State Office today published a notice of availability and a final supplemental environmental impact statement (EIS) that augments analysis for the 2015 Miles City Field Office Approved Resource Management Plan (RMP). The BLM prepared this analysis...


Federal Jury Convicts Owner of Bullion Direct, Inc. in Austin for Investment and Wire Fraud Scheme

News Release: In Austin today, a federal jury convicted 49-year-old Charles McAllister, CEO and owner of Bullion Direct, Inc. (BDI), of money laundering and scheming to defraud customers out of millions of dollars, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division; IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Goss, Houston Field Office; and, Texas State Securities Board Commissioner Travis J. Iles.


News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Adam Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter requesting key documents from Vice President Michael Pence as part of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.