News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a conspiracy to operate a gambling enterprise, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - Three individuals have been indicted on felony charges related to efforts to impede the court in the recent trial of members of a Peoria street gang, U.S. v. Eugene Haywood et.al.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: CARSON CITY, NEV. The Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District, Stillwater Field Office has completed a Preliminary Environmental Assessment (PEA) for Bell Mountain Exploration Corporation’s (BMEC) “Bell Mountain Mine Project". The BLM is seeking public comment on this PEA and input on this PEA...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the announcement from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of an innovative proposal, the Healthy Adult Opportunity (HAO), to modernize Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: COTTONWOOD, Idaho - Through the support and partnership of the Idaho County Waterways Committee, the Bureau of Land Management Cottonwood Field Office has completed improvements at the popular Pine Bar boat launch area. The Waterways Committee contributed $80,000, rounding out funding for the project and providing a better and safer recreational experience for the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL A. STEVENS, 26, of Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of conspiracy to falsely make, forge, counterfeit and pass Federal Reserve Notes.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Federal grazing fee for 2020 will be $1.35 per animal unit month (AUM) for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and $1.35 per head month (HM) for lands managed by the USDA Forest Service. The 2019 public land grazing fee was $1.35.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr today announced that Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, has been elevated from Vice Chair to Chair of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC).
By EPA Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the announcement from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of an innovative proposal, the Healthy Adult Opportunity (HAO), to modernize Medicaid.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ- The National Park Service will begin accepting applications for noncommercial river trip permits to raft the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. The permits are for specific launch dates within calendar year 2021. A total of 462 permits will...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Ludlow couple was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Springfield for a six-year bid-rigging and kickback scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeremy Hernandez, 30, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with producing child pornography. The charge carries a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that three men charged with the 2019 robberies of two central Florida Rural King locations-Carlos Eduardo Hampton, Jr. (22, Tampa), Quintin Eugene Augustus (18, Cocoa), and Jonathan Arthur Floyd (21, Cocoa) have each entered guilty pleas...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Otequise Lenard Miller, 34, of Concord, N.C. was sentenced today to 240 months in prison and five years of supervised release on drug trafficking conspiracy resulting in an overdose death and money laundering charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JULIAN DE JESUS CASTILLO, 35, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for possessing weapons while incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut (FCI Danbury).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Ubaldo Soto-Diaz, an illegal alien from Mexico, but residing in Portersville, California, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Soto-Diaz to pay a $2,000 fine and serve five years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Soto-Diaz pleaded guilty to the charge on July 18, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - On Jan. 28, 2020, Tomas Vale Valdivia, 45, a Cuban national who was living in Isla Mujeres, Mexico, was sentenced to 57 months in prison by U.S. District Kathleen M. Williams in Miami, Florida for his participation in a for-profit alien smuggling conspiracy that transported Cuban nationals to Mexico and then into the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - Over the past week, the BLM has been working in coordination with CO Fire Aviation to re-establish sagebrush over 90,000 acres burned by the 2018 Martin Fire. The Martin fire was largest fire in Nevada history and burned through portions of mature wildlife-rich sagebrush habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced LARRY WILLIAMS (“LARRY WILLIAMS"), age 46, of New Orleans, LUCINDA THOMAS (“THOMAS"), age 63; MARY WADE (“WADE"), age 55; JUDY WILLIAMS (“JUDY WILLIAMS"), age 59; and DASHONTAE YOUNG (“YOUNG"), age 25; all of Houma, Louisiana...
