News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Drew Wrigley announced that a federal grand jury has indicted Leoncio Amuia Bald Eagle, age 28, Fort Yates, ND, for False Statement in Connection with Acquisition of a Firearm. The Indictment was unsealed today alleging that on March 12, 2019, Bald Eagle unlawfully acquired...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash., - On October 21 - 22, 2020, United States Attorney William Hyslop and DEA Special Agent in Charge Keith Weis announced a coordinated Opioid Fentanyl Outreach initiative by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, community leaders, prevention specialists and school superintendents...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Jason Safford Applied for Mortgage Loans with Falsified Appraisals and Bank Statements.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A former U.S. Postal Service employee was sentenced to federal prison today for stealing mobile phones out of packages at the Portland postal sorting facility, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: KINGMAN, Ariz. -With zero growth and 80 percent containment, the White Fire which started on the afternoon of Oct. 10, 2020, has turned over to a local Type 4 Incident Management Team. Most resources have been released to assist with other fires in the nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of the Beltzhoover neighborhood in Pittsburgh, has been sentenced in federal court to two years’ probation and 100 hours of community service on her conviction of a drug trafficking charge in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former musical director of “The Arsenio Hall Show" was sentenced today to 27 months in federal prison for embezzling nearly $1 million from a charity concert intended to raise money for children made homeless by wars.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury today indicted an Essex County, New Jersey, man for his role in three armed robberies of pharmacies in West Orange, Belleville and East Orange, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA- Yesterday, continuing his efforts to address misuse of race in clinical decision-making, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) urged Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma to closely examine this issue in CMS programs. Citing...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: HOUGHTON, MI - In September, a significant journey across Lake Superior from Isle Royale to Grand Portage, Minnesota, took place. The cargo? Five culturally significant woven mats (anaakanan) from the Isle Royale National Park museum collection. The mats, four woven from cedar bark and the fifth made...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Cortny Biagini, age 28, of Utica, New York, was arraigned in federal court yesterday on an indictment charging her with federal fentanyl and methamphetamine charges, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon, Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Field Division, and New York State Police Superintendent Keith Corlett.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Donald Ray Logsdon, Jr, age 40, of McAlester, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Felon in Possession of Firearm/Ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: STATESBORO, GA: A Screven County man faces up to 20 years in federal prison after his indictment on federal charges for distributing child pornography.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, M.D., to request information on the FDA approval of a OxyContin label change in 2001.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, M.D., to request information on the FDA approval of a OxyContin label change in 2001.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, M.D., to request information on the FDA approval of a OxyContin label change in 2001.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Fossils, fossils, fossils! Whether you’re a fan of sharks, prehistoric footprints, or other ancient animals and plants, the National Park Service has fossils for you, including a couple of amazing new discoveries. And there’s no better day to celebrate and start to learn about fossils than on National Fossil Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: STATESBORO, GA: A Screven County man faces up to 20 years in federal prison after his indictment on federal charges for distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin and Attorney General William P. Barr announced updates on Operation Legend, a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with state and local law...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter Deegan of the Northern District of Iowa and U.S. Attorney Marc Krickbaum of the Southern District of Iowa announced yesterday $661,955 in Department of Justice grants to the Iowa Department of Public Safety to fund crime laboratories, decrease DNA backlogs, support basic and applied...
