News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Winn Parish School Board and Caddo Parish School Board awarded $400,000 in funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 54-year-old man who remained in the United States after his Visa had expired has been ordered to prison for receipt and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Alberto Bernal Garcia resided in Houston and pleaded guilty April 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: TYLER, Texas - U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown announced that two Texas women have been indicted on money laundering charges in the Eastern District of Texas.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Chairman Jim Costa of California delivered the following statement after hosting a roundtable today with USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection leaders.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Andre Ramon Washington, 47, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to 10 years in prison for possessing methamphetamine for distribution, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation announced guidance to implement Secretary’s Order 3376, Increasing Recreational Opportunities through the use of Electric Bikes. U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed the order in late August to increase recreation opportunities for all Americans, especially those with physical limitations, and to encourage the enjoyment of lands and waters managed by Interior.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JAMES T. BOOTH pled guilty to securities fraud in connection with his years-long scheme to defraud customers of his financial services firm, Booth Financial Associates (“Booth Financial"), of nearly $5 million through a variety of lies and misrepresentations. BOOTH pled guilty before U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Matthew A. Urquhart, 33, of Seneca Falls, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to serve to 44 months in prison and 10 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - Dontoreus Douglas, a/k/a "D.T.," 32, was sentenced to 280 months in federal prison for attempted murder in aid of racketeering activity; discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence; possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today its strategy to implement Secretary's Order 3376, Increasing Recreational Opportunities Through the Use of Electric Bikes, a recently signed order by Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt that is designed to make it easier for more Americans to recreate on and experience their public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Had girlfriend transport meth on bus from California to distribute in Iowa.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Workers helped safeguard the environment at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) Site by safely installing interlocking concrete blocks to prevent soil erosion at an inactive disposal area closed years ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Special Attorneys Michael Wheat (619) 546-8437, Joseph Orabona (619) 546-7951, Janaki Gandhi (619) 546-8817 and Colin McDonald (619) 546-9144.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement after returning from Speaker Pelosi’s Congressional Delegation to the Middle East...
By State Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today delivered the following remarks at a subcommittee hearing on human rights in South Asia...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is planning prescribed burning projects for the fall and winter months on public lands in Humboldt and Mendocino counties. Crews will ignite the pile burns and broadcast burns only when weather and fuel conditions allow for safe and successful burning and smoke dispersion. Smoke may be visible from nearby communities during the projects.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - It once housed a sanitary sewage treatment facility, but now the K-1203 complex site at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) is an open field sown with grass seed. Its remediation and aesthetic transformation moves the site closer to EM’s. Watch a video about the project here.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID RODRIGUEZ, 25, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and cocaine base (“crack").
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: GUILTY PLEA - Neftali Abonza. On Oct. 15, Neftali Abonza, 30, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. Abonza and his codefendants were involved in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in both Texas and Florida. The coconspirators would smuggle cash in bulk and use bank funnel accounts...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. - The Bureau of Reclamation is reducing salinity and improving water quality in the Colorado River Basin by reducing salt loading into the river from the Crawford Clipper Center Lateral in Delta County and the Gould Canal in Delta and Montrose Counties. Naturally-occurring salts...
