News from November 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man with prior felony convictions pleaded guilty today to unlawful possession of firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Patrick Gorman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging JOHN DAVID PAULSON, 56, with two counts of mail fraud. PAULSON will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court before a Magistrate Judge at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Woburn man was indicted yesterday in connection with a scheme to defraud an elderly relative of her interest in a three-family home.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: Salt Flat, Texas - Guadalupe Mountains National Park is experiencing extreme fire danger risk due to prolonged extreme drought conditions and sustained elevated winds. The park and the surrounding areas of west Texas will be issuing fire restrictions that will take effect on Wednesday, Nov 18, 2020.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, Nov. 18, 2020-A model for an economical filter system that can remove antibiotics from wastewater has been designed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and University of California-Riverside (UCR) collaborators.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a virtual event with Member of European Parliament David McAllister, chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Member of Parliament Tom Tugendhat, chair of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Marquel Grant, age 20, of Sioux City, Iowa, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for sexual abuse of a minor on the Omaha Nation Indian Reservation. United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Grant to 54 months in prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, held a hearing to examine how the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) are working to address the health concerns of veterans and servicemembers who deployed to Karshi-Khanabad (K2) Air Base in Uzbekistan between 2001 and 2005.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources today held a business meeting and reported the following nominees to the full Senate:
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DARRY JOSE GUERRERO, also known as “Domi," 29, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 87 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a heroin and fentanyl trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Las Vegas, Nevada resident pleaded guilty today to Conspiracy to Commit Health Care Fraud, Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering, and Aggravated Identity Theft, and further agreed to forfeit the proceeds of her crimes. These proceeds included up to $13,396,921.64, a British Aerospace...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Joshua J. Suazo, 24, Garden City, Kan., and Alexis M. Valverde, 29, Garden City, Kan., were indicted today on drug and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Wayne Kenney, 31, of Hooksett, pleaded guilty in federal court to unauthorized access to a computer and damage to protected computers, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced up to $3.75 million for new projects that use high-performance computing (HPC) to solve key challenges related to manufacturing and advanced materials development.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A federal judge on Nov. 16 sentenced Alexander Balding, 25, of Albuquerque, to 10 years in prison for accessing and downloading child pornography. In addition to his prison sentence, Balding also will be subject to 20 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: In Pecos today, a federal jury convicted an Englewood, Colorado, resident after a three-day jury trial on six child exploitation offenses, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer of the Western District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Chairman James E. Clyburn, and Economic and Consumer Policy Subcommittee Chairman Raja Krishnamoorthi issued a joint statement following a decision by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to cancel a $15 million communications contract with Atlas Research LLC designed to “defeat despair" and “inspire hope" during the pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Douglas Lanier Hogan (31, Jacksonville) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime on two separate occasions. Hogan had pleaded guilty on Aug. 12, 2020.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Subcommittee on Aviation Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA) today commended the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) thorough review process that led to the agency’s determination to unground the Boeing 737 MAX.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 140,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
