News from August 2020
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: The Green River Ferry and Green River Ferry Road north in Mammoth Cave National Park will be closed to all vehicular traffic on August 17-20 in order to complete a freshwater mussel relocation project and pavement preservation project. The relocation work is being conducted in advance of the next phase...
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 with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Jon Tester (D-MT), Ranking Member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, are pressing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell man was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in connection with advertising the sale of a firearm on Snapchat.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: National Navajo Code Talkers Day, which occurs on Aug. 14, formally recognizes the unique World War II contributions of Native American soldiers who served as elite cryptographers, encoding and transmitting messages using a complex Navajo language-based code that was never broken by Japanese forces in the Pacific.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Reanna Danielle Campbell, 26, of Franklin County, Missouri, was sentenced to 64 months in prison for her involvement in conspiring to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. Campbell appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge John A. Ross.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: A St. Louis-area dentist has been sentenced to prison for defrauding Illinois Medicaid out of.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Erick Lizarraga, 30, of Fresno was sentenced today to 15 years and eight months in prison for conspiring to traffic methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today Ariel Quiros, 64, of Key Biscayne, Florida, pleaded guilty before Chief Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford in United States District Court in Burlington to three felony charges in connection with his involvement in the Jay Peak Biomedical Research Park EB-5 investment project, also called the AnC Vermont project.
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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Thomas Matthew McVicker, 39, of Punta Gorda, Florida, was sentenced today in federal court on a charge of Interstate Transmission of Threat to Injure. McVicker pled guilty to the charge in April of 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - An illegally present murder suspect was arrested Thursday morning at his residence in North Chesterfield, Virginia, by special agents and officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $4 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to Native American planning organizations across the nation to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: Operation LeGend. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - New billboards at several Kansas City, Missouri, locations will encourage the community to take action to reduce violent crime as part of Operation LeGend. Digital billboards at five locations starting today urge citizens to “Help Stop Violent Crime in K.C." by calling...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, issued the following statements on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) final Environmental Impact Statement for the Willow Master Development Plan in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A).
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. - As part of the Trump Administration’s commitment to responsibly develop our natural resources, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will offer 43 parcels, totaling approximately 47,685 acres in Jackson, Las Animas, Moffat and Weld counties at its December 2020 quarterly oil and gas lease sale. The public comment period on associated environmental documents ends Sept. 14, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Deandre Chaney, aka “Meazy," 20, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 46 months in prison for his involvement in conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute fentanyl and heroin. Chaney appeared in federal court today before United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - A search was initiated on Wednesday, August 12th, for a pilot who was reported overdue by a concerned friend. The friend of the pilot became worried when he did not return after three days and called Alaska State Troopers.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 14, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Israel Ministry of Energy, and the Israel Innovation Authority have announced a new Call for Proposals from the U.S.-Israel Center of Excellence in Energy, Engineering and Water Technology (U.S.-Israel Energy Center) for cooperation in cybersecurity. The aim of this Call for Proposals is to develop tools and technology for energy cyber and cyber-physical security for critical infrastructure.
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...
