News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A citizen of Russia, residing in West Mifflin, PA has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), along with 24 Republican Members from the Education and Labor Committee and the Agriculture Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue urging the implementation of child nutrition program flexibilities allowed under law so schools have the flexibility they need to feed students during the coronavirus.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced over $1 billion in awards for the establishment of 12 new artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum information science (QIS) research institutes nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Matthew C. Ostrowski, 48, of North Tonawanda, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession of child pornography. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that GARY R. GIBBS (“GIBBS"), age 66, a resident of Niceville, Florida, pled guilty today to conspiracy to defraud First NBC Bank, the New Orleans-based bank that failed in April 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Mother Lode Field Office is increasing fire restrictions and temporary target shooting limitations for BLM-managed public lands in the Sierra Nevada foothills effective Aug. 27, due to high fire danger. These seasonal restrictions are in addition...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Watertown, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Receipt and Distribution of Child Pornography and Transportation of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Watertown, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Receipt and Distribution of Child Pornography and Transportation of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Aug. 26, 2020 - A Nashville man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court for two separate fraud schemes, one involving stolen tax refund checks and the other involving bank fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Kidnapping and Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of FORNANDOUS CORTEZ HENDERSON, 32, to one count of aiding and abetting arson. HENDERSON entered his plea today before Judge Susan Richard Nelson, in U.S. District Court, in St. Paul, Minnesota. HENDERSON’s sentencing hearing will be scheduled at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of the Treasury (Treasury), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) are issuing a joint technical alert about an ongoing automated teller machine (ATM) cash-out scheme by North Korean government cyber actors - referred to by the U.S. government as “FASTCash 2.0: North Korea's BeagleBoyz Robbing Banks."
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. - On Wednesday, Aug. 26, Dry Tortugas National Park reopened to visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Willie Player, 40, of Benton, Louisiana, was sentenced today on a charge of Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. United States District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote sentenced Player to spend 151 months (12 years, 7 months) in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man was sentenced to federal prison today for his role in a large-scale, multi-state drug trafficking conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Terrence McGuirk, 51, was sentenced to 25 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: David Herron, 49, of Centralia, Illinois, has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury in Maryland returned an indictment yesterday charging Jimmie Martin, aka Doodles, of Baltimore City, Maryland, with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person; possession with the intent to distribute a controlled substance; and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: MILLS, Wyoming -- The Wyoming Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation in Mills, Wyoming, will be lowering the water level in Guernsey Reservoir as the 2020 irrigation season draws to a close.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Kula, Maui - Across the nation, there are celebrations taking place marking the centennial of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which, for 100 hundred years, has given American women the right to vote. In celebration of this momentous event, the National Park Service has launched a new webpage “Nā Wāhine o Haleakalā: Women of Haleakalā." This new webpage highlights stories of important women with connections to Haleakalā.
