News from January 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia - The Youth Arts in the Parks 2020 Appalachian Spring Wildflower Art Contest online entry window is now open, January 6 - February 9, 2020! Local students can celebrate their creativity and interest in nature through this annual art contest and spring exhibition. Art selected for this show will inspire community connections to local ecology, parks, and outdoor stewardship. Some students will also have the opportunity to explore the business of art.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that David A. Hay (age: 39), a resident of Brooklyn, New York, was charged via a criminal complaint following his Dec. 29, 2019, arrest by local authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - Victor Lebron, an inmate at USP Lee in Jonesville, Virginia, was sentenced yesterday to 180 months in prison for conspiring to illegally possess and distribute buprenorphine, also known as Suboxone, while incarcerated and lying to investigators about it, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: Norfolk FBI Announces 2019 Director’s Community Leadership Award Recipient.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation today announced interest rates for January 2020, which are effective January 1-Jan. 31, 2020. The Commodity Credit Corporation borrowing rate-based charge for January is 1.500 percent, down from 1.625 percent in December.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: Let Americans unwrap savings on prescription medicine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging brothers Gladimir Thomas and Ronald Thomas, members of the Brooklyn-based “Insane Crip Gangsters," a subset of the Crips street gang, with sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and promoting prostitution. The defendants are scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Steven L. Tiscione.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia - The Youth Arts in the Parks 2020 Appalachian Spring Wildflower Art Contest online entry window is now open, January 6 - February 9, 2020! Local students can celebrate their creativity and interest in nature through this annual art contest and spring exhibition. Art selected for this show will inspire community connections to local ecology, parks, and outdoor stewardship. Some students will also have the opportunity to explore the business of art.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: Gunnison, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Gunnison Field Office has released the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for domestic sheep grazing permit renewals in Gunnison, Hinsdale and Ouray counties. The BLM analyzed the effects of domestic sheep and goat grazing in nine domestic sheep grazing allotments on 65,710 acres of public land.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The California Trail Interpretive Center is presenting a fine arts exhibit, “Nevada Wild 2020"
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Jonathan D. Larsen, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (“IRS-CI"), announced today that HICHAM KABBAJ, a former senior manager in Manhattan...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected 16 projects to receive nearly $25 million in federal funding for cost-shared projects to advance natural gas infrastructure technology development. DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy will provide federal funding for these projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Eli Clark, 29, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a conspiracy to defraud the United States by filing false tax claims for gambling winnings, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: Join a park ranger for a hike through Indiana Dunes National Park’s exceptional Miller Woods on Sundays, January 5, 12, 19, and 26, from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm. The hike follows the Paul H. Douglas Trail and is spectacular in its varied habitats including globally rare black...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that David A. Hay (age: 39), a resident of Brooklyn, New York, was charged via a criminal complaint following his Dec. 29, 2019, arrest by local authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on Jan. 3, 2020, Anna J. Chernyy, 24, of Lincoln, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard to a total of 15 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: STONY POINT, New York - On Dec. 30, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested Jorge Flores-Villalba, 27, as he exited a residence in Haverstraw, NY. Following his release from local custody where he was charged with a felony for leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in the death of a 35-year old woman on Christmas Eve.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Darryl Goodman, 55, and Nieem Cann, 26, both of Philadelphia, PA, were arrested and charged by Indictment for a series of violent robberies across the Delaware Valley over a four month period early last year. The ten-count Indictment charges Goodman and Cann with various offenses including conspiracy, Hobbs Act robbery, brandishing a firearm, carjacking, and possession of fentanyl with intent to deliver.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Maysville, Kentucky, man, Charles Wesley Bruener III, 33, who previously admitted to carjacking and threatening two individuals with a firearm in the course of the offense was sentenced Friday to 199 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning.
