News from November 2020
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - The Kremmling Field Office reduced the size of the East Troublesome Fire emergency area closure today, opening unburned BLM lands outside of the mapped fire perimeter.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A nearly quarter-million-dollar award from the U.S. Department of Justice will address the need for resources to prevent at-risk youth in Richmond County from becoming involved in street gangs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: Nine defendants have been accused in a federal indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court of operating a drug trafficking operation in multiple south Georgia counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Juan Jose Gonzalez Ramirez, also known as Lucas Rios, 42, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced on Monday to 144 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl in a seven-defendant drug trafficking case, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Former CEO Charged in Schemes to Defraud U.S. Government Related to the Conflict in Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Nov. 3, 2020, James Patrick Quinn (age: 55) of Youngstown, Ohio, was charged by criminal complaint for his involvement in the July 12, 2016, burglary of Treiber & Straub Jewelers in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Quinn was arrested on Nov. 10, 2020, and a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment against Quinn on Nov. 17, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Allegations Include Visa Fraud, False Statements and Unlawful Distribution of Controlled Substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Sioux Falls and Yankton, South Dakota, men were sentenced in federal court on Nov. 13, 2020, for Interference with Commerce by Threats and Violence and Brandishing a Firearm During a Federal Crime of Violence. The sentence was imposed by United States District Judge Lawrence L. Piersol.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay" Pak announced the appointment of sixteen new Assistant U.S. Attorneys (AUSA) who will immediately employ their talents to support the Northern District of Georgia’s (NDGA) mission to enforce the law and defend the interests of the citizens we serve in this district.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - David M. DeVillers, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, today announced that state, local and college police departments in Ohio must meet new safe policing standards regarding use of force, performance management and community engagement if they intend to apply for discretionary grants from the U.S. Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Joseph Ashton, former Vice President of the UAW’s General Motors Department, was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for conspiring with other UAW officials to engage in honest services fraud by taking $250,000 in bribes and kickbacks from a UAW vendor and for conspiring to launder the proceeds of the scheme announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - For the last quarter century, a cornerstone of the cleanup program at EM’s Paducah Site has been the safe operation of the system to treat and reduce groundwater contamination.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: El Dorado, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Christopher Gibson, age 41, of Crossett, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for one count of being a Felon In Possession of a Firearm. The Honorable Chief Judge Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in El Dorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Gulf Coast Health Care Fraud Strike Force Expanded to Include Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on Nov. 16, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today one of its component’s transition to an integrated financial, acquisition, and asset management system following a department-wide financial modernization effort.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Christopher Pipken, 39, has been indicted for possession with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine; and distribution of methamphetamine and fentanyl resulting in death. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the indictment today.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its environmental cleanup contractor UCOR were honored Nov. 12 with the Government Team Project of the Year Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging MICHAEL FARIAS, 54, of Providence...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new statistics that highlight geographic mobility and place of birth at the state level. Geographic mobility refers to the movement of people from one location of residence to another. The data come from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS).
