News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Following the guilty pleas of three today, four local residents have now been convicted for knowingly making false statements in connection with firearms purchases from a local federally licensed dealer, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced up to $34 million in Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer for Children (Summer EBT) grants to continue exploring ways to alleviate hunger among low-income children during the summer. USDA is awarding the grants to four grantees who will be able to continue projects and serve eligible children for the next three summers.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Assistant Director for International Operations Patrick J. Lechleitner, returned two 9th century Italian manuscripts and a Roman coin, a Contorniato, during a repatriation ceremony at the Italian Embassy...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Oct. 30, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - A West Tennessee psychiatrist was sentenced today to 48 months followed by three years of supervised release for unlawfully distributing opioids.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Vice Chairwoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), and Subcommittee Members Grace Meng (D-NY), David Price (D-NC), Lois Frankel (D-FL) and Norma Torres (D-CA) urged the Trump Administration to suspend their decision to pause all diversity and inclusion training at State Department and USAID.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Today, Republican Workforce Leaders on the Education and Labor Committee, Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Tim Walberg (R-MI), released the following statement after the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule clarifying fiduciary responsibilities in selecting investments for retirement savers involving non-financial objectives such as environmental, social, and governance goals...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: The final tally is in from the 19th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Oct. 24, 2020. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England Field Division and its partners, over the course of four hours, collected 115,944.24 pounds or over 57 tons of expired, unused, unwanted prescription drugs...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs (Office of Indian Energy) announced a formalized process for Indian tribes and eligible tribal entities to request cost share reductions under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT 2005).
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senate Environmental Justice co-founders Senator Tom Carper (D-Del), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) released the following statements to honor National Native American Heritage Month, which begins on Nov. 1, and to underscore the work needed to achieve equity and improve environmental quality and infrastructure investment in this nation's Native American communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Salem County, New Jersey, man made his initial appearance today after being charged with illegally possessing a handgun, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Phillip Coyne, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Stephan, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with Intent to Commit Murder, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, Robbery, and Brandishing, Carrying, or Possession a Firearm during and in Relation to a Crime of Violence.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a memo notifying Committee Members of her intent to issue a subpoena to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for documents it is withholding about dozens of CBP employees who engaged in misconduct in secret Facebook groups that were racist, sexually violent, dehumanizing, and abhorrent.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department today announced the completion of a five-day law enforcement effort, dubbed “Operation Find Our Children," throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia that resulted in the recovery of 27 previously missing children. The operation also confirmed the location of six additional children previously reported as missing but subsequently discovered by the U.S. Marshals Service as being in the custody of their legal guardian.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - DANTE DE LA CRUZ-ALVAREZ, 28, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced today to serve 132 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day brought in nearly a million pounds of unused, expired, and unwanted medications across the country, the largest amount ever collected in the program’s ten years. Americans once again showed their dedication to remove prescription pills from their homes to prevent addiction before it starts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Darnell Seagers, also known as “Bam Bam," 30, of Charleston, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after a jury convicted him of multiple counts of being a felon in possession of firearms, conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Anthony Bertino, age 59, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, was found guilty of Bribery Concerning Programs Receiving Federal Funds as a result of a federal jury trial in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: FALLS CHURCH, Va. - In keeping with the Trump Administration’s goal of strengthening America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management Eastern States announces an online oil and gas lease sale to be held Dec. 17, 2020. The sale will include 15 onshore parcels totaling 1,494.1 acres located in Cleburne, Faulkner, Pope, and Van Buren Counties in Arkansas and Forrest, Jones, Perry and Stone Counties in Mississippi.
