News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: POCATELLO - Stormy Ray Adakai, 24, of Fort Hall, Idaho, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 57 months in federal prison for assault resulting in serious bodily injury, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered that Adakai serve three years of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Mark McLean Farmer pleaded guilty on Aug. 16, 2019, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of anabolic steroids and possession of a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about its plans to enforce the Trump Administration’s recently announced partial ban on flavored vaping pods. FDA needs to monitor, in...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: Get out of the house for a day of fun at Indiana Dunes National Park’s Cabin Fever Festival. Join staff and visitors on Saturday, Feb. 1, from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm at both the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center and the Paul H. Douglas Center for plenty of indoor and outdoor activities with a Groundhog Day theme.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recognized Better Buildings Challenge partner MetLife Investment Management for energy efficiency advances made in its District Center. The 910,000-square-foot building in Washington, D.C. is a Better Buildings showcase project and saves 31% annually on energy costs, which equates to more than $500,000 per year, a 33% energy reduction compared to a 2014 baseline.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: JAN. 23, 2020 - The U.S. Census Bureau has released a downloadable toolkit geared toward helping local elected officials and community leaders plan a Response Rate Challenge for the 2020 Census. The new toolkit encourages leaders in every town, city and state to challenge their communities to improve upon their 2010 Census response rates in the upcoming national census.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Rocky A. Tingler, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced today to six months incarceration for tax fraud, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage man has been indicted for allegedly using Craigslist, Inc.’s internet marketplace to lure sellers to a meeting location and rob them at gunpoint.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: On February 15 and 22, Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, a unit of the National Park Service, will host Kingsley Heritage Celebration at Kingsley Plantation. This special event is held every year to celebrate African heritage and remember the enslaved that lived here. This year, Kingsley Heritage Celebration is part of a year of programming marking the 400th anniversary of when the first enslaved Africans were forcibly brought to English-occupied North America.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco grand jury returned an indictment charging Mustapha Traore, aka Olivier Adella, with making false statements in an application for a passport, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson; U.S. State Department, Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), San Francisco Field Office Special Agent in Charge Matthew Perlman; and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Tatum King.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment charging Damian Sierra, 41, of Port St. Lucie, with possessing 500 grams or more of cocaine with the intent to distribute. If convicted, Sierra faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years, up to 40 years, in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: La Cueva High School Student Died from Overdose in 2011 after becoming Addicted to Opioids following Treatment for Sports-Related Injuries.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced up to $64 million in funding to advance innovations that will build new markets for the H2@Scale initiative. This investment will support transformational research and development (R&D), innovative hydrogen concepts that will encourage market expansion and increase the scale of hydrogen production, storage, transport, and use.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Charleston, WV - The United States Marshals Service (USMS) for the Southern District of West Virginia (S/WV), and the Charleston, WV police department through a joint effort, captured Gerard “Rodo" Spencer, 35, in Newport News, Virginia.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
Release: PITTSBURGH - A Missouri man was arrested at Pittsburgh International Airport after Transportation Security Administration officers stopped him with a.38 caliber handgun loaded with six bullets.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about its plans to enforce the Trump Administration’s recently announced partial ban on flavored vaping pods. FDA needs to monitor, in...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, February 8, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will conduct a special 1-hour tour on Chickamauga Battlefield, focusing on African American stories associated with the battlefield. This program begins at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center and will car caravan to various locations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - DynCorp International, LLC (DynCorp), located in McLean, has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle civil fraud allegations involving two former DynCorp officials, Wesley Aaron Struble and Jose Rivera, who solicited and accepted kickbacks from an Iraqi subcontractor in connection with DynCorp’s lease of property for its operations in Baghdad, Iraq on behalf of the U.S. Department of State.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The founder of Insys Therapeutics, John Kapoor, was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for orchestrating a scheme to bribe practitioners to prescribe Subsys, a fentanyl-based pain medication, often when medically unnecessary.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2020
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Jan. 23, 2020.
