News from March 2020
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting American energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah quarterly oil and gas lease sale resulted in competitive bids for 22 parcels offered in the BLM’s Green River District, totalling over $284,000 in receipts.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management will host a competitive, sealed bid coal lease sale at 10 a.m. on April 10, 2020 for a lease-by-application for a 2,462-acre tract, approximately 14 miles west of Durango in La Plata County, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: The former Acting Police Chief of Olney, Texas was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for threatening an individual at gunpoint, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: Daren Arakelian Admits to Deceptively Marketing and Selling Chinese Goods to the Federal Government.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - A Dayton man was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 318 months in federal prison for committing armed robberies in and around Dayton.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced KORTNEY DONNELL CREWS, 32, of Kinston, North Carolina to 120 months’ imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: The Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule today that will establish Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Programs (IRAPs), which are apprenticeships led by job creators, colleges, and other entities instead of the federal government. Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement in support of DOL’s rule, which will expand apprenticeship opportunities...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: This event has been postponed at the request of the speaker, and will be rescheduled at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: Biddeford, Maine Man Convicted of Hate Crime Assaults.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: FBI Requesting Tips on Masked Bank Robber.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After receiving an inadequate reply from the Trump Administration to a February 27 letter, leaders on the Ways and Means Committee requested that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar provide additional information regarding a recent whistleblower allegation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The Drug Enforcement Administration San Francisco Division urges its DEA-registered practitioners and members of the public to be cautious of telephone calls from criminals posing as DEA or other law enforcement personnel threatening arrest and prosecution for supposed violations of federal drug laws or involvement in drug-trafficking activities.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) will speak at approximately 2:15 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, March 11, at the Save Oak Flat rally on the southeast lawn of the U.S. Capitol, across the street from the Cannon House Office Building. The event will feature Native American tribal leaders...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A West Hollywood man has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges that he sold bogus art he claimed was created by artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. He also admitted using fake paintings as collateral for loans on which he later defaulted, and using fraudulent pieces for fraudulent write-offs on his income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: Following a three-day jury trial, Maurice Diggins, 36, of Biddeford, Maine, was convicted today of conspiring to commit hate crimes and of actually committing hate crimes by engaging in a series of racially motivated attacks against black men in Maine, announced the Department of Justice.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Chair of the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget requests for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jake Alexander Cruse, age 33, of Troy, New York, pled guilty today to charges of distributing, transporting and receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jake Alexander Cruse, age 33, of Troy, New York, pled guilty today to charges of distributing, transporting and receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: MIAMI−Following a three-day trial, a federal jury found Donald Howard Conkright, 63, of Key West, Florida, guilty for his role in laundering more than $2 million that was stolen from a Texas school district.
