News from October 2020
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today ongoing congressionally mandated contract conversions pursuant to the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act). Today’s release includes a draft repayment contract from the Central Valley Project Westside Water District for a 60-day public comment period. This is one of over 90 repayment contract conversions requested by federal Central Valley Project contractors.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot E. Engel, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Chairman James E. Clyburn, and Oversight and Reform’s National Security Subcommittee Chairman Stephen F. Lynch sent...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: United States Seizes More Domain Names Used by Foreign Terrorist Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Oct. 21, 2020, defendant Sylvia Hofstetter, was sentenced today to 400 months in prison for her role in operating several pill mills in Knoxville, Tennessee and Hollywood, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: BISMARCK: United States Attorney Drew H. Wrigley announced today that he has appointed Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Rick Volk to lead the efforts of the United States Attorney’s Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming Nov. 3...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Mark A. Klaassen wants to ensure that everyone knows how to rid their home of unused and unwanted medications.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: FBI Announces the Arrest of an Alleged Serial Bank Robber.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: CRATER LAKE, OREGON - The fire danger level within Crater Lake National Park has dropped from high to moderate due to recent moisture and predicted cooler temperatures. Effective Oct. 21, 2020 at 12:01 am, Crater Lake National Park rescinded the fire restrictions implemented on July 31, 2020 and the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Steven M. Lukach, Jr., age 70, of Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Oct. 20, 2020, to 27 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani for mail fraud and falsification of records.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, spoke about recent developments regarding his committee’s oversight into conflicts of interests involving the Biden family.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: KEY WEST, Fla. - The 144-year old Tortugas Harbor Lighthouse on historic Fort Jefferson is about to get a facelift. On Oct. 19, Dry Tortugas National Park kicked off the $4.5 million project to restore and preserve the deteriorating lighthouse for the next 100-plus years.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Arlington man pleaded guilty yesterday to his role in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud that resulted in losses of over $3.5 million.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: GULF BREEZE, FL-The National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom accepted Fort Pickens, managed by Gulf Islands National Seashore, as one of over 650 sites, programs, and facilities within the Network. It joins 12 new listings from the 40th round of Network to Freedom applications...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of McKees Rocks, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute a quantity of fentanyl and heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two homeless residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that a Minneapolis, Minnesota resident has been charged with engaging in multiple acts of vandalism and violence including throwing rocks at police officers engaged in lawful crowd dispersal during a civil disorder event.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) today raised concerns over more than 150,000 inaccurate absentee and mail-in ballots. The Republicans wrote to the Franklin County (Ohio) Board...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that MICHAEL PAUL PERRILLOUX, age 42, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was arrested on Oct. 16, 2020 after previously being charged by a federal grand jury in a four-count Indictment with transportation and distribution of images and videos...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2020
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice announced a global resolution of its criminal and civil investigations into the opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma LP (Purdue), and a civil resolution of its civil investigation into individual shareholders from the Sackler family. The resolutions with Purdue are subject to the approval of the bankruptcy court.
