News from August 2020
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: SOCORRO, N.M.- The Department of the Interior (DOI) today announced the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has issued the Record of Decision (ROD) on the Borderlands Wind, LLC, proposal to construct, operate and decommission the Borderlands Wind Project (BLWP). The Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) was released on March 11, 2020, analyzing the potential effects of the project including cultural, biological, socioeconomical, environmental, and visual.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A California man has been arrested for defrauding victims in New Jersey through an investment scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Update: 'Double Dipper' Bandit Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Anthony T. Smith, Jr., 20, of Biloxi, pled guilty today before U.S. District U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to one count of possession of a firearm by an unlawful drug user, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle Sutphin of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mississippi Field Office.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 126,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Enhancing existing partnerships with state and local law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that DONNELL RUSSELL, manager of music recording artist Robert Sylvester...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a legal decision concluding that President Donald Trump’s appointments to senior leadership positions at the Department of Homeland Security were illegal and circumvented both the Federal Vacancy Reform Act and the Homeland Security Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury and Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Verdell Crosser, 63, of Paris, Tennessee has been sentenced to 156 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence, RI, man was arrested and arraigned in U.S. District Court in Providence today on a charge of arson for allegedly setting fire to a Providence Police Department cruiser in the early morning hours of June 2, 2020, during a riot in downtown Providence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Anthony T. Smith, Jr., 20, of Biloxi, pled guilty today before U.S. District U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to one count of possession of a firearm by an unlawful drug user, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle Sutphin of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mississippi Field Office.
By State Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement in response to the United States’ seizure of an Iranian fuel shipment intended for the illegitimate Maduro regime in Venezuela, which would have allegedly benefitted Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization:
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Lovington, New Mexico Man Charged Federally with Sending Threatening Message.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland has returned a two-count indictment charging Larese Kenneth Allen, Sr., 25 of Youngstown with making a bomb threat and as a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Hermosa, South Dakota, man convicted of three counts of Wire Fraud was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Natural Resources Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the below statement following the publication of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) final environmental review for ConocoPhillips’ Willow Master Development Plan in the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska (Reserve).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Sam Resto with setting on fire a marked New York City Police Department (NYPD) van. Resto was arrested yesterday and will make his initial appearance this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Peggy Kuo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On August 7, 2020, United States District Judge Clifton L. Corker, Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville, sentenced Rancu Ionut a/k/a Ambroz Bojan, 35, and Andrei Razvan Pusculau a/k/a Victor Frana, 30, both from Romania, to federal prison terms for conducting a bank fraud and identity theft scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced today the latest charges and a denial of bond that are part of his office’s larger efforts to address gun violence. A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Antwine Chamberlain-Fields for being a felon in possession of...
