News from October 2020
By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
Release: APHIS is interested in receiving comments regarding potential environmental and interrelated economic impacts to assist in our assessment of the petition as it relates to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The public comments received, along with the best available scientific documents, will ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: FBI Warns Scammers Spoofing Midland FBI Office Phone Number in Government Impersonation Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: RENO, Nevada---The Bureau of Land Management, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and Nevada Division of Forestry will jointly reduce the current 2020 Nevada-wide fire restrictions, effective for all three agencies by Friday, October 16th, 2020, until further notice. The reduced fire restrictions will allow campfires in designated campground areas within Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Allegedly Used Secret Swiss and Bermudian Bank Accounts in Scheme to Conceal.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: MEMPHIS, TN - United States Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Scott Smith will lead the efforts of his office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming Nov. 3, 2020, general election. AUSA Smith...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Miami, Florida - Two South Florida residents have been charged with federal conspiracy, armed robbery, and firearms offenses in connection with a series of convenience store robberies in Miami-Dade, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, Virginia - A Bristol, Virginia man pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to three federal gun charges related to offenses occurring in both the Western District of Virginia and the Western District of North Carolina. Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar of the...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will host a series of four webinars with guest speakers from three regional USDA Cattle and Carcass Training Centers (CCTCs), the CME Group, and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS). These free webinars begin Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, and are...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - United States Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) JoAnna McFadden has been appointed to serve as the District Election Officer (DEO) for the Middle District of North Carolina, and in that capacity is responsible for overseeing the District’s handling of complaints of election fraud and voting rights concerns in consultation with Justice Department Headquarters in Washington.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project (ETIPP), a new partnership that will provide resources and access to on-the-ground support for remote and islanded communities in the United States seeking to transform their energy systems and lower their vulnerability to energy disruptions.
By State Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Washington - Congressman Michael McCaul, Republican Leader of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Congressman Eliot Engel, the Committee’s Chair, today released the following statement on the Lukashenka regime’s threat to use lethal force against peaceful protesters in Belarus...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - William Y. Asiedu, age 27, of Albany, was sentenced today to time served (5 days in jail) and 3 years of supervised release, and to pay $445,333 in restitution, for his participation in a romance scam.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: ReConnect Funding to Connect 237 Rural Households to High-Speed Internet e-Connectivity SPARTANSBURG, Pa., Oct. 15, 2020 – The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $750,000 to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in Pennsylvania. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: ReConnect Funding to Connect 487 Rural Households to High-Speed Internet e-Connectivity HILL CITY, S.D., Oct. 15, 2020 – The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $6 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in South Dakota. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: An American citizen was charged in two indictments unsealed this week for his alleged participation in an investment fraud scheme in which he allegedly misappropriated $6.1 million in investor-funds, manufactured evidence to mislead an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and concealed the proceeds of his fraudulent scheme from the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Fourteen members of the transnational criminal organization, QQAAZZ, were charged by a federal grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania in an indictment unsealed today. A related indictment unsealed in October 2019 charged five members of QQAAZZ. One additional conspirator, a Russian national, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department announced that Richard Holzer, 28, pleaded guilty today to federal hate crime and explosives charges for plotting to blow up the Temple Emanuel Synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury in Oxford, Mississippi, returned a six-count superseding indictment charging five alleged members of the Gangster Disciples gang, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney William C. Lamar of the Northern ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury in San Francisco, California, returned a 39 count indictment charging Robert T. Brockman, the Chief Executive Officer of an Ohio-based software company, with tax evasion, wire fraud, money laundering, and other offenses, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2020
News Release: Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers and U.S. Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of Seyed Sajjad Shahidian, 33, to 23 months in prison for his role in conducting financial transactions in violation of U.S. sanctions against Iran. Shahidian, who pleaded ...
