News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of production and attempted production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Marcus Dieter Felder was sentenced to 100 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution to numerous victims following his convictions for access device fraud, aggravated identity theft, and other offenses, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Homeland Security Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU - Paul A. Kaiwi, Jr., 51, a medical doctor and resident of Wailuku, Hawaii, was charged by a criminal complaint unsealed today with six counts of unlawful distribution of the controlled substance hydrocodone.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - The park hosted 837,499 recreation visits in September 2020. This is a 21% increase from September 2019, making it the busiest September on record.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.5 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the New Mexico Department of Information Technology, Santa Fe, New Mexico, to provide technical assistance...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Pawtucket man who admitted to selling significant quantities of fentanyl on the streets of Pawtucket, his fourth conviction on drug trafficking charges, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Providence to seven years in federal prison.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: CHIPPEWA FALLS, WISCONSIN, Oct. 8, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will begin accepting applications for the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020 for 2021 enrollment.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
Release: Washington, D.C., Oct. 10, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is revising the requirements for importing fresh blueberry fruit from Chile into the United States. Effective immediately, blueberries from the Biobio and Nuble regions of Chile ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: CORNELL, Wis., Oct. 8, 2020 - The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $3 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in Wisconsin. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Daniel Musso, 56, of Brentwood, was sentenced to 31 months in federal prison for unlawfully possessing fragmentation grenades and explosive material, U.S. Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today. He was further ordered to pay a $7,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Patrick Staton, 30, Town of Maple, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 72 months in federal prison for possessing three firearms and ammunition as a felon. This prison term will be followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: John, Helen and Dimitrios Zourdos Charged with 16 Counts of Tax Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: The Michigan Attorney General Charged Seven Additional Individuals Following a Coordinated Disruption of the Plan.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.9 million grant to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, Versailles, Kentucky, to renovate an existing technological building at Hazard...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Kenneth Wayne Hart, a/k/a Redds, Wayne Hawkins, Hawk, Big Daddy, Billy Reds, and Bill Red Hart, age 59, of Beltsville, Maryland, yesterday to 25 years in federal prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release, on federal charges...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: In commemoration of National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) officially launched the Million Mile Fuel Cell Truck (M2FCT) and the H2NEW consortia to advance fuel cell truck and hydrogen production R&D. Today’s announcement builds upon DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Joseph Louis James, 37, of Worley, Idaho, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 46 months in federal prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered James to serve three years of supervised release following his prison sentence. James pleaded guilty to the charge on June 10, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell Coleman is pleased to announce the latest recipients of the U.S. Attorney’s Law Enforcement Award are Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Special Agent Nate Mills and Sergeant Tom Schardein, now retired from Louisville Metro Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - Eighteen individuals, fifteen of whom were previously convicted of felony drug and/or firearm charges, and thirteen of whom are currently serving terms of state or federal probation, have been charged in federal court in Providence with trafficking drugs and/or firearms, the result of a series of FBI Safe Streets Task Force Project Safe Neighborhoods investigations.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Lakeview, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Lakeview District, Lakeview Field Office, will begin an emergency wild horse gather Oct. 10 on the Paisley Desert Herd Management Area (HMA) located about ten miles northeast of Paisley. The action is needed due to the lack of water and the wild horses’ rapidly declining health associated with herd overpopulation. The Paisley Desert HMA encompasses over 271,667 acres of public and private lands.
