News from February 2020
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
Release: The Government of Romania successfully completed a three-year, EU-funded human trafficking awareness campaign, and drafted an improved version of the national victim identification and referral mechanism. The government did not significantly increase efforts to prosecute and punish trafficking crimes or identify and protect potential victims of trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Robert Zavala Jr., 24, and Moises Garcia DeLeon, 27, both of Soledad, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Joseph Brice, Jr. (26, Bradenton) has pleaded guilty to distributing heroin and fentanyl, and to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service seeks to fill multiple surf-lifeguard jobs for six ocean beaches at Cape Cod National Seashore for the 2020 summer season. The application period for these federal jobs is now open on usajobs.gov. There are rolling deadlines, with the first being February 7, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: Celebrate the migration of birdlife through the Indiana Dunes region this May 14-17 at the sixth annual Indiana Dunes Birding Festival. The entire festival program schedule has now been released, featuring over 150 individual trips, programs, and workshops. The event is being organized by the Indiana Audubon Society and includes both the Indiana Dunes National Park and Indiana Dunes State Park as site hosts.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: During the spring months of 2020, fire crews will conduct prescribed fire operations, located along Darrow Ridge Road, in the Tennessee district of the park. Prescribed fire, as defined in the approved Fire Management Plan, will be located within the boundaries of the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chad Arrington, a/k/a “Chad Focus," age 32, of Randallstown, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to a federal wire fraud conspiracy in connection with a scheme to use a company credit card to make over $4.1 million in unauthorized purchases.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Committee on Natural Resources will hold a markup at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, Feb. 6, on a resolution to grant Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) the authority to issue subpoenas. Natural Resources is one of only a few committees in the House not to grant the chair such authority automatically at the beginning of each Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Jonathan D. Larsen, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), announced today that MICHAEL MAGNALDI, a former Pelham resident and...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON. D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) jointly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to partner on a new Energy Sector Pathfinder initiative. The goals of this initiative are to advance information sharing, improve training and education to understand systemic risks, and develop joint operational preparedness and response activities to cybersecurity threats.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chair Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) announced his intent to grant himself unilateral, unchecked subpoena authority. Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUIS NIEVES-FELICIANO, 41, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for drug and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: CASE NAME: United States v. Aleksei Burkov, Criminal Case No. 1:15-cr-245.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Future visitors to Buzzard Point Park can look forward to an extension of the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail (ART) and a welcoming community waterfront.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C., Feb. 3, 2020 - At the direction of President Donald J. Trump, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the third and final tranche of 2019 Market Facilitation Program (MFP) payments aimed at assisting farmers suffering from damage due to unjustified trade retaliation by foreign nations. The payments will begin to show up in farmers’ bank accounts by the end of this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Kidnapping of a Minor by a Registered Sex Offender and Transportation of a Minor with Intent to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity by a Registered Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Quleton Monix (36, Bradenton) to seven years and nine months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The court also ordered Monix to forfeit the firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Alan Williams, of Hillsboro, Virginia, was sentenced today to 327 months incarceration for producing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUIS NIEVES-FELICIANO, 41, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for drug and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: Guthrie possessed a number of guns, two of which he kept loaded near his drug stash.
