News from July 2020
By DOE Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - EM is further strengthening its procurement capabilities in launching an Acquisition Corps to serve on Acquisition Integrated Project Teams (AIPTs) and Source Evaluation Boards (SEBs) that evaluate submissions for contract awards.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jerome Roberson, 33, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to destroying evidence in a federal investigation, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Michael Marte, age 55, of Denver, was sentenced today to serve 120 months (10 years) in federal prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for arson in connection with the fire at 1920 and 1930 Grove Street. He was also ordered to pay...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Cleveland, Ohio man has pled guilty to a drug crime, according to United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Troskey Banks, 23, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jason Lamonte Bryant, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has admitted to his role in a cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Leatherwood Ford Comfort Station will be closed starting at 8:00 AM (ET) on Monday July 20, 2020 for approximately six weeks. This project will address necessary repairs and replace existing waterline that carries water from East Rim to Leatherwood Ford.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Prairie Village, Kansas, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to engaging in two separate fraud schemes related to millions of dollars in false payday loan debt and to tax evasion totaling more than $8 million.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: On Saturday, July 11th sixteen park visitors, local volunteers, and rangers gathered to conduct a butterfly count in the Bryce Canyon area. After a brief pep talk on the importance of citizen science, butterflies, and social distancing they shared a sunny morning and partly cloudy afternoon along hilltops, meadows, forests, and reservoir shores. By the end of the count they’d found 115 butterflies across 20 different species.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Spokane Man Sentenced in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: DENVER - Manhattan Project National Historical Park will observe the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan in the waning days of World War II in 1945. As a result of COVID-19, the park has tailored the commemoration events to provide virtual activities to honor these significant events in world history and reflect on the many wartime sacrifices and losses. The following online activities and events are scheduled.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
Release: Washington, D.C., July 16, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is inviting stakeholders to submit project suggestions for fiscal year (FY) 2021 Plant Protection Act Section 7721 (PPA 7721) and National Clean Plant Network (NCPN) funding.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - On July 16, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers removed an unlawfully present Guatemalan man, who is wanted by Guatemalan law enforcement authorities for murder and attempted murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Zachary L. Duchesne, age 25, of Stillwater, New York, appeared in court today on a charge of possessing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: SALEM, MA - When and how did slavery end in Massachusetts? What was the experience of gradual emancipation like for African Americans who lived it? In what ways did a growing anti-black sentiment inhibit “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness?".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Dieter D. Douglas, 34, of Shiprock, New Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque on July 14 to two counts of assault of an intimate partner by strangling or suffocating. The charges arose in Indian Country and were part of a superseding indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Aiden Davidson, a/k/a Hamed Aliabadi, 32, of Brighton, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for smuggling goods from the United States to Iran in violation of the U.S. embargo on trade with Iran, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - Two men were sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison and 3 years probation with 9 months served in a halfway house, respectively, for orchestrating a multi-year scheme to funnel more than $200,000 in secret, unlawful corporate contributions into a campaign for United States Senate and for causing the concealment of those contributions from the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Iowa City, IA - Two U.S. Marshals Service-led violent fugitive task forces - the Southern Iowa Fugitive Task Force (SIFTF) and the Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force - joined forces today with the Johnson County Drug Task Force and the Iowa City Street Crimes Unit to arrest two fugitives wanted on separate out-of-state criminal charges. Both men are accused of violent crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that Jeremy Bullock, 43, Indianapolis, Ind. was charged with a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm and possession of an unregistered firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: First-Ever Corporate Enforcement Action by DOJ of North Korean Sanctions.
