News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON -- In San Antonio today, 34-year-old Kristopher Sean Matthews (aka Ali Jibreel) admitted to conspiring to provide material support to the designated foreign terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham/Syria (aka ISIS), announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer for the Western District of Texas, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has lifted the temporary emergency closure at the Fort Sage Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area near Doyle, Calif., following full containment of the Laura 2 Fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: Three Co-Defendants Previously Pleaded Guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl, Heroin, Cocaine, and Crack Cocaine.
By State Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: Dear Prime Minister Abiy: We write to express our grave concern over the ongoing fighting in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. We commend your commitment to reforming Ethiopia since your appointment as Prime Minister in April 2018, specifically efforts to pursue accountability for human rights violations,...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay Nov. 8 - Nov. 14, 2020. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Former Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) Corporal Tommy Morris, 29, pleaded guilty to conspiring to cover up the beating of an inmate and to encouraging other officers to provide false information to investigators, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: Plea includes admission to a violation of the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute investigated by the Vermont U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham. United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEFFREY L. BACON, 61, of Bristol, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before to one count of soliciting child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: Massachusetts Man Charged with Child Pornography Possession.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - At the Hanford Site, weather data drives decisions that keep the workforce safe and healthy through high temperatures in the desert summer, powerful winds, and freezing rain and snow in the winter. The Hanford Meteorological Station is an invaluable resource for work planners and site leaders.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: TYLER, Texas -- A 44-year-old Shreveport, Louisiana woman has been indicted for her role in an elder fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Devin L. Ashford, 33, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced today after being found guilty by a jury of Sex Trafficking of a Minor; Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, or Coercion; Production of Child Pornography; and Interstate Transportation for Prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 44-year-old U.S. citizen has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of conspiring to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By State Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on last week’s ruling by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. that the Trump Administration’s attempt to use the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to suspend asylum rights violated the law...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
Release: APHIS updated the to include the following changes:APHIS restricts the movement of domestic soil from areas within the continental United States that are under quarantine for specific plant pests. The Federal Domestic Soil Quarantines Map provides an overview of the plant pest quarantines that affect ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland -- U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang today sentenced Saleem Abdul Muhammad, age 55, of Prince George’s County, Maryland, to four years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Since May 2020, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has charged more than 156 individuals for protest-related violence, marking the highest number of people charged in any federal district in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: Sixth Former Tennessee Corrections Officer Pleads Guilty to Federal Offenses Arising out of a Cover Up of Staff Assault of an Inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that SONJA DYSON EVANS, 58, of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, and SHAWANDA DOVE, 51, of Amite, Louisiana were charged on Nov. 23, 2020, in a bill of information with one count of violating 18 U.S.C. §§ 1952(a)(3) and 2, use of an interstate facility with intent to carry on unlawful activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Peabody man pleaded guilty today in connection with over a dozen armed robberies throughout greater Boston.
