News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Martin, South Dakota, woman who pled guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on July 31, 2020, by U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Northwest Arkansas - For the safety of all visitors, and at the request of the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT), Buffalo National River will temporarily close the Upper Pruitt Day Use Area. ARDOT has entered a new project phase in the Highway 7 bridge replacement at Pruitt in Newton County and has requested this temporary closure to ensure the safety of motorists, workers, and Buffalo National River visitors during construction.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Superintendent Jeffrey West announces that the park will continue to utilize a lottery system to determine the initial order for applicants to select the location for their hunting blinds. The Duck Blind Lottery will be a two-step process this year in order to meet COVID-19 safety...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Carlos Wilson, 32, Madison, Wisconsin pleaded guilty and was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 48 months in federal prison for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, Hunter Lavon Brown, a 26-year-old from Deatsville, Alabama, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. and FBI Special Agent in Charges James Jewell.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged two men in a narcotics conspiracy that involved the seizure of more than half a million dollars and one kilogram of fentanyl.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Tuesday, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, introduced the Delivering for America Act in the wake of unprecedented changes proposed by the new Postmaster General to the operations and organizational structure of the U.S. Postal Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former employee of the Houston Independent School District has agreed to plead guilty in connection with her involvement in a scheme to use bribery and fraud to facilitate cheating on the ACT and SAT exams.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), with funding from DOE’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, works with dozens of small business across the United States to advance wind technology as a distributed energy resource through the Competitiveness Improvement...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on Aug. 12, 2020, after a three-day trial, a federal jury convicted Devin L. Ashford, 33, of Lincoln, Nebraska, of Sex Trafficking of a Minor; Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, or Coercion; Production of Child Pornography; and Interstate Transportation...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Bradley S. Roenfeldt, age 58, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today to 180 months’ imprisonment for transportation of child pornography by United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - Melody Hudson, 38, of Dayton, appeared in U.S. District Court today to face charges in an indictment alleging that she stole the identity of a 72-year old retired man and redirected his $919 monthly pension benefits to a bank account she controlled.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A man who committed murder in Osage County in 2015 was sentenced today in federal court, announced United States Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Indicted for their Roles in a $46.8 Million Tobacco Smuggling Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today that Sandra Stiner, 65, Ladysmith, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and criminal asset forfeiture.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Martin, South Dakota, woman who pled guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on July 31, 2020, by U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Influencing a Federal Officer by Threat was sentenced on Aug. 10, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Aug. 12, 2020-"How the Christmas Flower Came to Be" is the title of John M. Dole's 2020 Agricultural Research Service Benjamin Y. Morrison Memorial Lecture, being presented virtually at the American Society for Horticultural Science's annual meeting on Wednesday, August 12.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, led a letter with Chairwoman Maloney, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, and four Equality Caucus Co-Chairs to John F. Ring, Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), regarding NLRB’s unsatisfactory response to their investigation about the removal of nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Aug. 11, 2020, Randall F. Henry, 49, of Sunbright, Tennessee, plead guilty before Magistrate Judge C. Clifford Shirley, Jr., to a felony count for falsifying records to conceal his illegal purchases of ginseng prior to the legal harvest season in 2015, violating the Lacey Act, a federal law enacted to combat the illegal trafficking of plants and wildlife.
