News from May 2020
By DOT News Wire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Alaska Airlines 2nd Exemption Grant Aviation Exemption Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation is acting on two requests for exemption from the CARES Act airline service obligations announced in Order 2020-4-2. This is the first request of Grant Aviation and the second request of Alaska Airlines. ...
By DOT News Wire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Former U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson Appointed as Chair
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a Newark man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute over a kilogram of heroin and 240 grams of crack cocaine.
By State Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening made the following statement on the President’s removal of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick...
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON- The Bureau of Land Management announced today that the Wild Horse and Burro Adoption Incentive Program launched in March 2019 contributed to a significant increase of animals placed into private care. In the first 12 months of the AIP, the agency adopted 6,026 animals, compared with 3,158 during the previous full fiscal year. That increase of 91% revives and accelerates an upward trend of adoptions that began in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: $1 Million Reward Offered for Information Leading to the Return of Paul Edwin Overby, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - On Monday, May 18, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI will participate in a statewide telephone town hall, hosted by AARP, to protect Alaskans from COVID-19 fraud. Together, the two offices will share resources and take questions to prevent Alaskans from falling victim to scams and other schemes attempting to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Xephyr LLC, DBA N-Ergetics, Ordered To Halt Sales Of Colloidal Silver As Treatment For COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute over a kilogram of heroin and 240 grams of crack cocaine, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, NM - The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a two-phased contract for up to $16.7 million for El Vado Dam repairs to Virginia-based CARPI USA Inc. El Vado is a steel-faced, rockfill dam located on the Rio Chama in northern New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Clifton Summers, a/k/a Clifton Horton, 34, of Jackson, was sentenced today by U.S. District Carlton W. Reeves to 34 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michele Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi. Summers was also ordered to pay a $1,000.00 fine.
By State Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement ahead of Burundi’s May 20th general elections:
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau, in coordination with federal, state and local health officials, will begin a phased restart of some 2020 Census field operations in 11 additional states and Puerto Rico the week of May 18.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - United States Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger today announced that various jurisdictions across the Eastern District of Virginia have been awarded over $250,000 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a visit to Gettysburg National Military Park today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt highlighted the Trump Administration’s support for protecting and enhancing our nation’s historic sites and announced $3 million in American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP)...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced the two winners of the 4th Annual “Do the Writing Thing" (DtWT) essay contest, during a virtual award ceremony livestreamed today via Facebook Live and Instagram.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news reports that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) may begin checking passenger temperatures at airports as soon as next week...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, NJ-The FBI’s Newark Field Office is warning of an increase in fraud schemes that target grandparents in New Jersey. Since January, fraudsters have preyed on dozens of grandparents throughout the state. These victims have lost a combined total that is expected to surpass a million dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Peter N. Allen, age 32, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, appeared today on a criminal complaint charging him with attempted enticement and coercion of a minor into a sexual act, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
