News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Patrick Duran, 31, of Dulce, New Mexico, pleaded guilty on Aug. 19 in federal court in Albuquerque to assaulting an infant in Indian Country resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Ronald M. Smith, age 46, of Elkton, Maryland, a former Baltimore Department of Public Works (“DPW") supervisor pleaded guilty on Aug. 27, 2020, to the federal charge of extortion under color of official right for misuse of his authority as a public employee. Smith admitted that he accepted cash payments for work he caused DPW crews to perform for private businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - As the Northern District of West Virginia continues to see the effects of the opioid epidemic, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell is concerned about the increase in overdose calls during the peak months of COVID.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: ST GEORGE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management’s Red Cliffs Recreation Area, including the Red Cliffs Recreation Area campground, day use areas, White Reef trailhead, and the non-motorized looped trail system are open, following an emergency closure due to fire and fire damage.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Cory D. Preitauer, 30, formerly of North Platte, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for conspiracy and production of child pornography. Preitauer was sentenced to 40 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By State Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on ongoing violence and unrest in Belarus following the presidential election earlier this month:
By State Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today announced that the Committee will begin work on a resolution holding Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in contempt. Chairman Engel made this announcement amid Secretary Pompeo’s ongoing refusal to comply with...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Democratic Leader Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and 31 of their Democratic Senate colleagues wrote to Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar criticizing...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced a change in the harvest limit from one caribou to two caribou beginning at 12 a.m. Aug. 29 for hunting by federally qualified subsistence users on federal public lands in Units 20E, 25C and 20F east of the Dalton Highway and south of the Yukon River.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Maysville, Kentucky man, Shane A. Fox, 39, was sentenced to 300 months in federal prison on Friday, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, for conspiracy to distribute 280 grams or more of crack cocaine and possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.2 million grant to the County of Otsego Industrial Development Agency, Oneonta, New York, to establish the Richfield Springs Eco-Industrial Business Park. The EDA grant, to be matched with $325,000 in state funds and $875,000 in local funds, is expected to generate more than $10.5 million in private investment.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in partnership with the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Hub (Hub), announced a Request for Proposals (RFP) for innovations in intensified brine-management solutions for high-salinity streams. The RFP supports the Water Security Grand Challenge...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: U.S. Seizure of Three Websites Used by Iranian Front Company that Was Shipping Fuel on Four Tankers to Venezuela.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 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 Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that HABEEB AUDU, a/k/a “Dickson," a dual citizen of the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Aberdeen, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Felon in Possession of a Firearm and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Cory D. Preitauer, 30, formerly of North Platte, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for conspiracy and production of child pornography. Preitauer was sentenced to 40 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Natchitoches, LA - Cane River Creole National Historical Park sustained minimal to moderate damage throughout the park due to severe weather associated with Hurricane Laura. The park continues to perform damage assessments within the Oakland and Magnolia plantation units. Currently, the Cane River Creole National Historical Park remains closed due to safety concerns during the stabilization operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. ordered Ramiro Garcia-Valdivia, 33, of Mexico, to serve 10 years in prison and five years of supervised release for drug trafficking and immigration violations, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Adam Raymond Mason, 29, of Bristow, was charged today by criminal complaint with first degree murder in Indian Country following the death of his daughter, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores. A federal criminal complaint is merely an accusation. A defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Providence Health System - Southern California, which operates Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, has entered into a settlement with the United States, agreeing to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by ensuring effective communication for patients who are deaf or hard of hearing.
