News from October 2020
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Bakersfield Field Office will offer seven parcels for lease, totaling approximately 4,133 acres of federal minerals, at an oil and gas lease sale during the week of December 7. All parcels are located in or adjacent to existing oilfields in Kern County.
By State Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY-Chairman Eliot L. Engel and Ranking Member Michael T. McCaul of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement on the reports that democracy advocate and former opposition presidential candidate, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, was put on the wanted list of the so-called “Union State" of Russia and Belarus...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A grand jury has indicted the former office manager of a Champaign, Ill., contractor supply company on charges that she allegedly embezzled more than $600,000 from her employer over five years and filed false income tax returns. The indictment, returned Oct. 7, charges Joan L. Chenoweth, 57, of Tolono, Ill., with embezzling money from Illini Contractor Supply from May 2013 to February 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Defendant was appointed by Kitsap County and Suquamish Tribal Court judges to handle finances-stole from clients for more than seven years.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: For Further Information, Contact: Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel C. Silva (619) 546-9713 and DOJ Trial Attorney Kevin Lowell. SAN DIEGO - A La Jolla-based CEO pleaded guilty today to multiple felonies relating to the operation of his financial firm, Surf Financial Group, LLC, including conspiring to...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: Drug Trafficker Receives 10 Years in Prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 8, 2020
News Release: BALTIMORE - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow today sentenced John Wright III, age 36, of Edgewood, Maryland, to 30 years in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for production of child pornography. Judge Chasanow also ordered that, upon his release from prison, Wright must register as a sex offender in the places where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has charged more than 500 domestic violence cases involving a firearm during Fiscal Year (FY) 2020. A Department priority since 2019 when Attorney General William P. Barr created the Department of Justice’s first ever-Domestic Violence Working Group, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge James Whittemore has sentenced Kwasi Francis (30, Ocala) to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The court also ordered Francis to forfeit the firearm and all ammunition associated with the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - Today, the Department of Justice announced it has charged more than 500 domestic violence cases involving firearms during Fiscal Year (FY) 2020. A Department priority since 2019 when Attorney General William P. Barr created the Department of Justice’s first ever-Domestic Violence Working...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Marcos D. Guzman, 36, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of theft of firearms from a Federal Firearms Licensee, possession of firearms by a convicted felon, and fraudulent representations about the receipt of military medals...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $4.2 million grant to the city of Petersburg, Indiana, to improve and expand its water system to support existing businesses and attract new business. The...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Acting Secretary Chad F. Wolf released the following statement regarding Chairman Thompson’s misrepresentation of threats in the HTA to the New York Times.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the conclusion to a week-long targeted enforcement operation that resulted in the apprehension of over 125 at-large aliens across the state of California, where sanctuary policies have largely prohibited the cooperation of law enforcement agencies in the arrest of criminal aliens.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Leadership at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and across its component offices will continue to champion efforts to combat COVID-19 and ensure public health and safety remain a top priority as it navigates through the pandemic environment.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Distance Learning and Telemedicine Investments will Benefit More Than 12 Million Rural Residents WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2020 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $72 million in grants to help rural residents gain access to health care and educational opportunities. These investments will benefit more than 12 million rural residents.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: ReConnect Funding to Provide High-Speed Internet e-Connectivity to More Than 1,200 Rural Households WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 7, 2020 – The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $11.8 million in grants to provide broadband service in unserved ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: ReConnect Funding to Provide High-Speed Internet e-Connectivity to 109 Rural Households LINDEN, Ind., Oct. 7, 2020 – The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $1 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Two militant fighters for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a foreign terrorist organization, are expected to arrive in the United States today in FBI custody on charges related to their participation in a brutal hostage-taking scheme that resulted in the deaths of four American citizens, as well as the deaths of British and Japanese nationals, in Syria.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Today, the Justice Department announced it has charged more than 500 domestic violence cases involving firearms during Fiscal Year (FY) 2020. A department priority since 2019 when Attorney General William P. Barr created the Department of Justice’s first ever-Domestic Violence Working Group, these charges ...
