News from October 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have proposed a novel method for finding dark matter, the cosmos’s mystery material that has eluded detection for decades. Dark matter makes up about 27% of the universe; ordinary matter, such as the stuff that builds stars and planets, accounts for just 5% of the cosmos. (A mysterious entity called dark energy, accounts for the other 68%.)
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Andrew R. Haden (619) 546-6961 and Timothy D. Coughlin (619) 546-6768.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Eastern District of Wisconsin Charged 115 Defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Missouri man pleaded guilty today to an armed carjacking in Topeka, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) demanded more information on the Trump Administration’s plan to send $200 “Trump cards" to Medicare...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Committee on House Administration Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), and Government Operations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) called on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission Inspector General...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Oxford, MS - Today, the Department of Justice announced it has charged more than 14,200 defendants with firearms-related crimes during Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, despite the challenges of COVID 19 and its impact on the criminal justice process. These cases have been a Department priority since November 2019...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Christopher D. Hales, 39, of Lehi pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy in connection with a financial fraud scheme he and other co-conspirators devised while Hales was in a halfway house serving a sentence for another federal fraud case. The scheme resulted in a loss to investors of at least $7 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: FBI, Mono County Sheriff Launch Video Series to Help Locate Karlie Lain Gusé.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Defendants Admitted to Participating in Racketeering Conspiracy that Included Murder Among Its Activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: An Appling County man with multiple prior convictions for selling narcotics has been sentenced to nearly two decades in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Lakeview, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Lakeview District has lifted the fire restrictions in place on public lands administered by the BLM in south-central Oregon. The fire prevention order termination will go into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 14, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Richard Barrett Dale Walker (38, The Villages) to five years and five months in federal prison for wire fraud and bank fraud. Walker was also ordered to pay $790,600 in restitution and an $839,305.30 forfeiture order.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Arnold Amthor, Chief of the City of Newburgh Police Department, announced that ALBERTO...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: Grand Teton National Park hosted an estimated 603,789 recreation visits in September 2020, a 17% increase compared to September 2019. Park statistics show that September 2020 saw the highest number of recreation visits on record for the month of September. More data on National Park Service visitor-use statistics is available at irma.nps.gov/STATS/.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - U.S. Attorney Robert M. Duncan, Jr. announced Monday over $1.9 Million in Department of Justice grants, to address violence occurring in our nation’s schools. The grants, awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs, are part of more than $87 million that has been awarded to bolster school security, support first responders who arrive on the scene of a school shooting or other violent incident, and conduct research on school safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury today indicted two men for their roles in two armed bank robberies in Passaic and Little Falls, New Jersey, respectively, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: ROANOKE, Virginia - Today, the Department of Justice announced it has charged more than 14,200 defendants with firearms-related crimes during Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, despite the challenges of COVID 19 and its impact on the criminal justice process. These cases have been a Department priority since November...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Richard C. Miller, 53, of Forestville, NY, who was previously convicted of receipt and possession of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison and lifetime supervised release by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Bryan County woman who admitted to tampering with a witness in a child sexual coercion investigation has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison.
