News from June 2020
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after the Trump Administration filed a brief in the case Texas v. U.S. (previously Texas v. Azar) yesterday urging the Supreme...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,356,700 visitors to New River Gorge National River, Bluestone National Scenic River, and Gauley River National Recreation Area spent $60,400,000 in communities near the three parks in 2019. That spending supported 846 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economies of $70,100,000. The parks span four counties in southern West Virginia: Fayette, Nicholas, Raleigh, and Summers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: A former sheriff’s deputy who preyed on children at his church has been sentenced to life in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Gregory Clive Burke (57, Mims) to 18 years in federal prison for enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. Burke, a registered sex offender who was on state probation after a previous conviction for possession of child pornography, was indicted by a grand jury on Dec. 20, 2018. He had pleaded guilty on Nov. 21, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - An inmate at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Devens was indicted yesterday in connection with attempting to make threats against federal agents and to cause an explosion at a federal courthouse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Joshua Neil Bowen, 28, of Alto, New Mexico pleaded guilty on June 25 in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico to kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, La. - United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana David C. Joseph announced that a federal grand jury in New Orleans returned an 11-count indictment today charging Jason R. Williams, 47, of New Orleans, and Nicole E. Burdett, 39, of Kenner, Louisiana, with conspiracy to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - James Brown, of Marion, Virginia, was arrested this afternoon and charged with lying to federal agents about his involvement in the burning of a cross on the front lawn of an African-American woman’s home and criminal interference with fair housing based upon the victim’s race. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and Neil L. Mathison, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STEFAN GILLIER, a/k/a “Stephan Gillier," a/k/a “Stefan R.R. Gillier," a/k/a “Roland Gillier," a/k/a “Roland Van Gorp," a Belgian citizen, was extradited today from Italy to the United States. GILLIER...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A federal grand jury has indicted, Kenny Ray Raleigh, 42, of Partridge, Ky., on one count of unreasonable force by a police officer acting under color of law and one count of obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Angelica O. Preti, 45, of Ontario, Canada, was sentenced in U.S. District Court here today to 18 months in prison for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) by illegally exporting gas turbine engine parts from the United States to Iran.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: TONOPAH, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Tonopah Field Office, Battle Mountain District, is asking the public to review and provide input on an Environmental Assessment that analyzes an application by Kebo Oil and Gas Inc. to drill an exploratory oil well, Ragged Ridge Federal No.1. The proposed drill site is approximately seven miles south of Currant in Railroad Valley, Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: MESA COUNTY, Colo - The Mesa County Sheriff, the Bureau of Land Management and the Fire Chiefs representing municipalities and fire protection districts of Mesa County are implementing Stage 1 Fire Restrictions effective at 12:01 a.m. Friday, June 26th, 2020. This applies to all of Mesa County including BLM Land with the EXCEPTION of Grand Mesa National Forest.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Today, the House will vote to overturn President Trump’s veto of H.J. Res. 76 that would roll back the Education Department’s efforts to assist students who have been defrauded by colleges and universities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - Three defendants involved in a methamphetamine drug trafficking operation involving nearly 2,000 grams of “ice" methamphetamine pleaded guilty to federal criminal drug charges Thursday, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Jose E. Ordez Avalos, 39, of...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: After ignoring numerous calls from bicameral Democratic health committee leaders to create a broad special enrollment period and release data on health care enrollment trends, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finally released limited data yesterday. In response, House Energy and Commerce...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: Yesterday, the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Chairman Jim Costa (CA-16) hosted a roundtable, in which USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety Dr. Mindy M. Brashears and Food Safety and Inspection Service Administrator Paul Kiecker answered questions about the impact of COVID-19 on food supply chains.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, La. - United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana David C. Joseph announced that a federal grand jury in New Orleans returned an 11-count indictment today charging Jason R. Williams, 47, of New Orleans, and Nicole E. Burdett, 39, of Kenner, Louisiana, with conspiracy to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Mariah Ferry, 22, of Albuquerque, New Mexico was sentenced today in federal court in Santa Fe, New Mexico to 30 years in prison on charges related to the kidnappings and brutal assaults of two victims suspected of stealing drugs and money from the home of co-defendant, Chase Smothermon, 32, of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2020
News Release: This new position will function to coordinate emergency medical response and search and rescue operations with responders inside the park in partnership with local agencies and organizations. She will also lead preventative search and rescue efforts, such as providing safety information to hikers by staff and volunteers.
