News from November 2020

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: Local Awards Part of $458 Million in National Funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Robert Arthur Ginder (34, Callahan) with three counts of receiving child exploitation material and one count of accessing with the intent to view child exploitation material. If convicted on all counts, Ginder faces a minimum mandatory term of imprisonment of 15 years, and up to 80 years, in federal prison.

By USDA Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: On Nov. 2, 2020, USDA's Economic Research Service released a report looking at the potential economic and related impacts of the European Commission’s proposed Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Abdulkawi Al Shuaibi, 47, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with theft of government property. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

By USDA Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated five South Carolina counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Clarendon, Marion, Spartanburg, Sumter and Williamsburg counties who suffered losses caused by excessive moisture and Tropical Storm Bertha that occurred May 18 through June 1, 2020, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich today announced $1,957,208 in Department of Justice grants to fight and prevent violent crime in the District of Nevada. The grants, which have been awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs, are part of more than $458 million in funding to support state, local, and tribal law enforcement efforts to combat violent crime in jurisdictions across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kyle Alexander Martin, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.- a former civilian program manager for the Oregon National Guard’s Oregon Sustainment Maintenance Site (OSMS) was sentenced to federal prison today for making false statements in representing the operational status of military equipment used to maintain the U.S. Army’s war-ready posture and billing for $6 million in repairs that were never done, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.

By USDA Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: CRYSTAL HILL, Va., Nov. 2, 2020 - The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $1.5 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in Virginia. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Russell Lance Warren, 35, of St. Stephens, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court for being a convicted felon in possession of firearms and for possessing stolen firearms. Warren pleaded guilty to the charges in July 2020.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Judith Ann Middleton, 70, of Ridgeland, Mississippi, was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with multiple violations of federal law involving unemployment insurance benefits fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and U.S. Secret Service Resident Agent in Charge Shawn Wolfe.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of a criminal complaint charging Shawn O’Neil Smith (22, Zephyrhills) with robbery. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.

By Commerce Newswire | Nov 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA) released the following statement after Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)...

By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2020
News Release: Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Fort Clatsop is pleased to announce the next virtual “In Their Footsteps" guest speaker series event. Bill Garvin will present “Layers of Middle Village History" on our youtube page at 1:00 p.m., Sunday, November 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces arrest of alleged double murder suspect Jeffrey Walker, of Memphis.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 1, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA) released the following statement after Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 1, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA) released the following statement after Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 1, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA) released the following statement after Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema...

By DOE Newswire | Nov 1, 2020
Release: “Today President Trump once again reaffirmed his unwavering commitment to the American energy industry. It is technology like fracking that unleashed America’s natural resources and made us the number one producer of oil and gas in the world, bringing an eight-fold increase in natural gas productivity ...