News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Assistant Special Agent in Charge Paul E. Maxwell and Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Christopher Kania, 40, Portage, Wisconsin, pled guilty on Thursday, March 12, in U.S. District Court in Madison to obtaining oxycodone by use of misrepresentation, fraud, and deception.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Raymy Escoto (24, Bradenton) and Phillip Uscanga (25, Bradenton) each to 12 years in federal prison for arson. Escoto and Uscanga had pleaded guilty on Sept. 25, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: Springdale, UT - Effective March 17, 2020, Zion National Park will temporarily suspend the park’s shuttle operation. The park itself remains open and visitors will be allowed to drive up the Zion Canyon Scenic Drive until the limited parking in the main canyon has filled. Once parking is full, the Zion Canyon Scenic Drive will be closed and open intermittently as parking spaces become available, most likely between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Today, the National Park Service temporarily suspended visitor service operations at Fort Pulaski National Monument. Park visitor facilities, programming, and visitor services will be CLOSED starting Tuesday, March 17, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $25 million in funding for plastics recycling research and development (R&D). The funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is part of the Department’s Plastics Innovation Challenge, a comprehensive program to accelerate innovations in plastics recycling technologies.
By State Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), chairman of the Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy, today released the following statement in response to recent Chinese Communist Party (CCP) disinformation regarding the origins of COVID-19, a coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China:
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Haichao Huang was sentenced to 12 months in prison for committing health care fraud and making false statements relating to health care matters, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Office of Personnel Management Office of the Inspector General Deputy Assistant Inspector...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: In 1965, with the Yellowtail Dam nearing completion, the Bureau of Reclamation determined that a newly-created Bighorn Lake at full capacity would flood the town of Kane. The land was condemned and many families were forced to move, leaving behind few physical reminders of the town. Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area and the Lovell-Kane Area Museum are working together to change that.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: D.C. Man Has Been Convicted in Previous Sexual Assault in Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced today that Grange Insurance Association and Dale Owens of Craig, Colorado, have paid the United States $500,000 to resolve their liability for a wildland fire in June of 2017 near Rangely, Colorado.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis and U.S. Census Bureau are closely monitoring and following guidance of public health officials related to COVID-19. Out of an abundance of caution and to protect the health and well-being of both Department of Commerce staff and reporters, both BEA and the Census Bureau will suspend until further notice pre-release media lockups for principal federal economic indicators beginning Monday, March 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Christopher Kania, 40, Portage, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty on Thursday, March 12, in U.S. District Court in Madison to obtaining oxycodone by use of misrepresentation, fraud, and deception.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
Release: The are now available on the APHIS website. TCD is a disease complex that threatens millions of black walnut trees (Juglans nigra) in forests and urban areas in the United States. The disease is the result of the combined activity of a fungus (Geosmithia morbida) and the walnut twig beetle (Pityophthorus ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: Faces at Least 10 Years in Prison for Distributing More than 165 Pounds of Meth.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that ROBERT M. PHELPS, 62, of Torrington, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with threatening to murder U.S. Representative Adam Schiff of California.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. (Mar.16, 2020)-Today, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck E. Grassley (R-IA), Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - March 16, 2020 - Two illegal aliens have each been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee. Brian Paredes, 22, of San Pedro Sula, Honduras...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
Release: APHIS updated the to include the following changes:APHIS restricts the movement of domestic soil from areas within the continental United States that are under quarantine for specific plant pests. The Federal Domestic Soil Quarantines Map provides an overview of the plant pest quarantines that affect ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: GUILTY PLEA - ROMELIO RIVERON. On March 10, Romelio Riveron, 50, pled guilty to conspiracy to launder money and monetary instruments. Riveron purchased stolen jewelry, gold, and diamonds from individuals who were involved in four major robberies in Bedford, Texas, The Village, Oklahoma, Charlotte, North...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On March 13, FBI agents arrested Wilson Nieves-Santiago who is facing 27 counts of bank fraud and two counts of money laundering, announced United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, W. Stephen Muldrow.
