News from May 2020
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS-U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme today warned Montanans to be aware of COVID-19 contact tracing scams in which someone steals personal identifying information while posing as a government or health care representative.
By USDA Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated eight Colorado counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Bent, Crowley, Custer, Hinsdale, Kiowa, Mineral, Otero, and San Juan counties who suffered losses due to a recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By USDA Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated eight Oregon counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Coos, Douglas, Gilliam, Jefferson, Morrow, Sherman, Wasco, and Wheeler counties who suffered losses due to a recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC -- In an effort to stay healthy while following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and Carteret County public health authorities, Cape Lookout National Seashore is increasing recreational access on May 29. North Core, South Core...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSEPH OLIVIERI, a physician who practiced in Manhattan, was sentenced to 40 months in prison for participating in a scheme to illegally distribute oxycodone and other controlled substances. OLIVIERI previously...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Altimate Care LLC has agreed to pay $175,000 to resolve claims that the company improperly billed government health insurance programs including Medicare and Ohio Medicaid for services the company provided between Jan. 1, 2011 and Dec. 31, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced that Verquan Jackson, 32, of Niagara Falls, New York was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possessing with intent to distribute MDMA, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Cut Bank man today admitted assaulting a minor girl on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: Keweenaw National Historical Park (NHP) is pleased to announce two appointments to the Keweenaw National Historical Park Advisory Commission. Glenn Anderson is a new appointment representing the interests of the State of Michigan. Karin Cooper, representing the Houghton County Board of Commissioners, has also been reappointed to a second term on the Commission.
By Commerce Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary Mnuchin: The President has threatened to direct the administration to withhold federal funds from states that undertake efforts to facilitate absentee and other vote-by-mail systems. In two tweets, he threatened to “hold up" federal funds from Nevada and Michigan over their voting systems...
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: BAR HARBOR, ME - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state public health authorities, Acadia National Park plans to increase recreational access and services on June 1, consistent with openings of Maine coastal State Parks. Acadia National Park continues to work with the State of Maine to follow the “Restarting Maine’s Economy " guidance as well as with local officials as these changes are implemented.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 40-year-old Houston man has entered a guilty plea in Corpus Christi federal court to money laundering through wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Four residents of Alachua, Florida, have been arrested on federal criminal.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Sergeant Galima Murry was sentenced today by Senior U.S. Circuit Judge David M. Ebel to serve 8 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit marriage fraud and making false statements regarding that fraud to the government. Murry was one...
By DOL Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: Dear Commissioner Hahn: We write to urge you to disclose to Congress and make available to the public a list of marketed e-cigarettes and other deemed tobacco products for which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) receives premarket applications by September 9, 2020. Such a list would inform consumers...
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: Sullivan’s Island, SC - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park (NHP) and Charles Pinckney National Historic Site (NHS) are increasing recreational...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A married couple from Butler County, Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty to federal fraud and tax charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: The third week of May, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists Doris Lagos-Kutz and Glen Hartman venture to a nearby field to set a timer on a smokestack-like device that rises 20 feet into the air and serves a single purpose: to capture winged insects such as aphids (notably, soybean aphids), thrips and other potential soybean pests.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal grand jury today indicted a Madison man for possessing a pipe bomb, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acting Special Agent in Charge Frank Haera.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2020
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone National Park will open its Montana entrances on Monday, June 1 at 10 a.m. The Montana entrances include West Entrance (near West Yellowstone), North Entrance (near Gardiner), and Northeast Entrance (near Cooke City). The opening of Montana’s entrances coincides...
