News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Jose Nelson Orellana-Callejas, 41, of El Salvador, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States after removal. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Jared Gil, 25, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced in federal court to 40 months for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: Bismarck - United States Attorney Drew H. Wrigley announced that on March 5, 2020, Noah Jarvis Abraham appeared in Federal Court at an initial appearance and arraignment hearing. The United States District Court for the District of North Dakota unsealed an Indictment revealing that a federal grand jury ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PEDRO ORTA-RIVAS, also known as “Cuba" and “El Brujo," 51, of East Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a New Haven-based drug trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -This week, on the eve of the 50th Earth Day, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and co-founder and co-chair of the Senate Recycling Caucus invited leaders of organizations from both the private and public sectors to participate in a roundtable to and discuss local, national or global sustainability initiatives being implemented by businesses and other organizations across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Jared Gil, 25, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced in federal court to 40 months for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a highly anticipated report finding that the Trump administration’s attempt to move Washington, D.C.-based Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employees to Grand Junction, Colo., and elsewhere across the West failed to follow a...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican National was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester, Massachusetts for distributing fentanyl and heroin.
By State Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representatives Eliot L, Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Michael McCaul, the Committee’s Ranking Member; Karen Bass, Chairperson of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations; and Chris Smith, the Subcommittee’s Ranking...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a markup of 11 bills on Tuesday, March 10, at 10 a.m. in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Stephen M. Hahn to request a briefing on the marketing status reporting requirements of generic drugs required by the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017 (FDARA).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management released the following statement in response to the Government Accountability Office report on the agency’s Headquarters move West:.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: Gulf Breeze, Fla. - The National Park Service welcomed more than 5.6 million visitors to America’s largest national seashore in 2019. The milestone represents the highest annual visitation in over 30 years. The park is now number 10 on the “Top Ten Most Visited National Park Service Sites," coming in just below Grand Canyon National Park’s 5.97 million visitors in 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago consultant has been indicted in federal court for allegedly corruptly offering money to an Illinois State Senator in connection with obtaining state approval for a suburban development project.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: Ninety-five percent or about 143 million households in the country will receive an initial invitation to respond to the 2020 Census in their mailboxes between March 12 and 20. The U.S. Census Bureau released informational copies today of the invitations, the enclosed materials, and the subsequent reminders households will receive. These materials can help the public know what to expect and avoid potential scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - This week, James Lee Jones, Jr., of Tuba City, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dominic W. Lanza to multiple life terms in prison. Jones previously was convicted by a jury of 4 counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child and 5 counts of Abusive Sexual Contact of a Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury recently indicted a Birmingham man for an armed carjacking, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2020
News Release: Washington- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is calling on companies developing privacy-enhancing technologies to submit applications for the 2020 Privacy Technology Demonstration-a first-of-its-kind event to examine the performance of technologies intended to protect the privacy of individuals by obfuscating or encrypting faces in videos.
