News from January 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Bureau of Land Management has extended the public comment period for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Integrated Activity Plan/Draft Environmental Impact Statement (NPR-A IAP Draft EIS). The new deadline is 10 p.m. (Alaska Standard Time) Feb. 5, extending the previous timeline from 60 days to 75.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) with a yearlong celebration of past achievements, current efforts, and future initiatives to protect the American workforce.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Latasha Moore, 39, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for accepting more than $140,000 in bribes from John Woods, who was a consultant and independent contractor who did business with the D.C. government.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Medicine Chest Pharmacy in Fresno has agreed to pay $27,500 to resolve allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and DEA Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux announced today. The settlement was reached in October, the sale of the pharmacy and its assets has recently been completed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was charged today in federal court in Boston with aggravated identify theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida, Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami Field Office, and Sheriff William D. Snyder of the Martin County Sheriff’s Office announced that Torrie Chermaine Austin, 35, of Stuart, Florida, was sentenced today to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of time served or 29 months, to be followed by three years of supervised release on his conviction on charges of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute an analogue of fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Larry Casper (619) 546-6734 and Victor White (619) 546-8439.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - On Sept. 16, 2019, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Hawaii filed a civil complaint seeking the forfeiture of two single-family residences, located at 1577 Hoolehua Street in Pearl City and 94-103 Pupupuhi Street in Waipahu, which were alleged to be operating as illegal...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - A pond-like basin built in the early years of the Cold War was recently remediated to regulatory standards after Savannah River Site (SRS) workers filled it with 1,400 tons of stone and 7,000 cubic yards of dirt, and capped it with grass sod.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow today sentenced Byron Keith Goines, age 25, of Gwynn Oak, Maryland, to 96 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for the federal charge of theft of firearms from a federal firearms licensee’s inventory, in connection with the burglary of a Halethorpe, Maryland gun dealer on Jan. 21, 2019.
By State Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
Release: More information about Australia is available on the Australia Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
Release: SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - Officials with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today reminded California residents that starting Oct. 1, 2020, travelers will need a REAL ID-compliant driver license or identification card or another federally-approved form of identification to board a commercial flight or enter a secure federal facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of DILLON GEORGE TAYLOR, 21, to 52 months in prison for assaulting three individuals with a firearm and violating his supervised release conditions. TAYLOR, who pleaded guilty on Oct. 22, 2019, was sentenced today before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes will serve as Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man was sentenced to prison for his role in a federal drug conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Tremayne Swanson, 28, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Oregon Man Sentenced to Prison for Sex Trafficking Minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Pennsylvania Doctor Pleads Guilty to Unlawfully Distributing Oxycodone to His Patients.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass. - Officials from the Town of Eastham and Cape Cod National Seashore have announced a project to relocate Nauset Light Beach Road in Eastham to maintain access for shoreline residents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Hal H. Brown Jr., 70, of Asheville, N.C., pleaded guilty to securities fraud and transactional money laundering in federal court today before U.S. Magistrate Judge David C. Keesler, for orchestrating a $22 million Ponzi scheme, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
