News from November 2020
By Federal Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
A federal court in Hammond, Indiana, has unsealed an indictment against Guan Tianfeng, a Chinese national, for allegedly conspiring to hack firewall devices globally in 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Former correctional officer Michael L. Jones pleaded guilty to accepting bribes to provide prison inmates with methamphetamine, marijuana, and tobacco, all of which were destined to be smuggled into Floyd County Correctional Institution (“FCCI") in Rome, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: BOISE - United States Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today that his office’s Financial Litigation Unit collected more than $5.7 million in criminal restitution, fines, and assessments and in civil debts for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2020. In some cases, the U.S. Attorney’s Office worked...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: Seward, AK - Flood conditions are expected in the lagoon at the terminus of Bear Glacier. Based on photographs from a remote camera, it appears that an ice-dammed lake located 7 mi above the terminus of Bear Glacier began draining around November 4th or 5th. Due to the season, the park has not yet received...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the Republican agenda for the 117th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Samantha Marie Elhassani, aka Samantha Sally, 35, formerly of Elkhart, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon to 78 months in prison and three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to Financing Terrorism, announced Assistant Attorney General for National...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging GREGORY CRAWFORD, 36, of East Hartford, with unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON ‐ A 24-year-old resident of Houston has been arrested on charges of mail theft, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) issued the following statement after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released 2019 greenhouse gas (GHG) data showing continued reduced GHG emissions under the Trump administration.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) issued the following statement after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released 2019 greenhouse gas (GHG) data showing continued reduced GHG emissions under the Trump administration.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the Republican agenda for the 117th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: Former Martinez, California, resident teamed with former EDD employee to file fraudulent claims.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: On Sunday, November 8th, a snowshoer who had been missing overnight was located and rescued from the Nisqually River drainage below Paradise. The snowshoer was last seen on Saturday November 7th at 1:45 pm, when he and his partner separated below the Muir Snowfield at an elevation of 9,500’.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: Defendant Avoided Losses by Selling Company Stock Prior to Announcement of Negative Financial News.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Alex Stoltman, 23, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court to bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Sharp County, Arkansas, to renovate and rebuild a manufacturing facility and boost county economic diversification...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced federal carjacking charges against DELANEY NICHOLAS HARRIS, 19, JOSHOAMEI DEANGELO RICHARDSON, 19, and JAMES BROCK WILLIAMS, JR., 19. HARRIS was charged with aiding and abetting carjacking and, in a separate indictment, RICHARDSON and WILLIAMS...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Robert J. Bell, Chicago Division, announced that Pierre Riley, 52, Macon, Georgia was sentenced on November 6, 2020, in the Southern District of Indiana for his role in a large drug trafficking ring that operated in Kokomo, Indiana. Mr. Riley was sentenced to 490 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2020
News Release: CRATER LAKE, OR - Crater Lake National Park’s North Entrance Road and Rim Drive closed for the season on November 1st. All visitors to Crater Lake National Park must use Highway 62 to access the park from the south or west during these closures. The North Entrance Road and Rim Drive, with elevations...
