News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Chinese national pleaded guilty today to his role in a $1.1 million fraud conspiracy involving gift cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland Darknet vendor and a Nebraska pharmacist were sentenced today to a combined over 23 years in prison for their respective roles in a conspiracy to use explosives to firebomb and destroy a competitor pharmacy.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has issued a notice of intent (NOI) for a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to develop tools and methods designed to optimize safe, secure, and verifiable carbon dioxide (CO2) storage. If released, the FOA will support the goals of the Advanced Storage R&D technology area of DOE’s Carbon Storage Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Yojamis Lozano-Amaya, 42, and Hovet Ewersont Paz-Sagastume, 34, both of Honduras, pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to re-entry of a removed alien. Judge Skretny then sentenced each defendant to time served (approximately two months).
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
Release: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has begun using a state-of-the-art computed tomography (CT) scanner in the security checkpoint at Baton Rouge Metro Airport (BTR.)
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Congressman Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) seeking documents about its procedures for resolving conflicts between landowners and natural gas pipeline construction companies.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Glen Jean, WV -New River Gorge National River Superintendent Lizzie Watts announced that the trail bridge providing access to the historic town of Hamlet in the Glade Creek area of the park will temporarily close for repair beginning either Monday, November 30 or the following Monday, December 7. Updated closure information with dates will be posted on the park website, Facebook, and Twitter.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Charlie Yancey, 29, of Buffalo, NY, with conspiring to distribute marijuana, attempted possession of marijuana, discharge of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging VICTOR RIVERA, 29, and MICHOLS PENA, 38, with conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery, and firearms offenses. RIVERA and PENA were arrested on this morning. PENA was...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Kari Johnson, 33, of Gallup, New Mexico was sentenced on Nov. 2 in federal court in Albuquerque to two years and three months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for residential burglary.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JUSTIN WILLIAMS, 42, of Rocky Hill, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of wire fraud arising from an auto loan fraud scheme.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) researchers have won 38 of the 100 awards given out this year by R&D World. The annual R&D 100 Awards are given in recognition of exceptional technologies developed during the previous year. The awards were announced in three separate virtual events on September 29 and 30 and Oct. 1, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after President Trump’s speech on the administration’s efforts to lower health care costs.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
Release: GREEN BAY, Wis. - Two state-of-the-art advanced technology computed tomography checkpoint scanners (CT) that provide 3-D imaging have been installed and are in use at the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Green Bay-Austin Straubel International Airport (GRB).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: MOAB, Utah - Good communication between agencies is a crucial component for a well-coordinated interagency fire suppression response and being a good neighbor is important too. To further those aims, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Canyon Country fire managers recently transferred 17 handheld radios...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement today after President Trump announced a series of drug pricing measures at a press conference this afternoon...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Cognosante, LLC has agreed to pay the United States $18,987,789 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by using unqualified labor and overcharging the United States for services provided to government agencies under two General Services Administration (GSA)) contracts, the Justice Department announced today. Cognosante, which is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, provides health care and IT services and solutions to federal agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A former Rockcastle County Deputy Jailer, Derek Steven Clark, 25, was sentenced to 39 months in federal prison on Thursday, before U.S. District Court Judge Claria Horn Boom, for violating the civil rights of an inmate in his custody.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: As the holiday season approaches, the National Park Service would like to invite you to your local national park and recreation area. Here’s what you need to know.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Matthew Modafferi, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal Service, Office of Inspector General, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging NATHANIEL BONILLA, 31, of Bristol, with three counts of theft of mail by a postal employee.
