News from October 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released three new staff reports in addition to two staff reports released yesterday as part of the Committee’s landmark back-to-back hearings this week with drug company CEOs on the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Kedrick Lee, 23, of Hattiesburg, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to violently robbing a business in Hattiesburg, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
Release: Lebanon, PA, Sept. 30, 2020 - USDA Food and Nutrition Service Administrator Pam Miller visited two sites in Lebanon today to celebrate World School Milk Day. Miller met with the American Dairy Association North East and toured Brook-Corner Holsteins dairy farm to see first-hand the hard work and dedication American farmers put into getting nutritious milk and other products to the school lunch table.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Awards Are Part of Over $9 Million in Justice Department Funding Announced by Attorney General Barr.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - Wesley Forrest Clay, 29, of Olathe, Kan., was indicted on Thursday in the Eastern District of Kentucky, for federal charges of sending threatening communications in interstate commerce.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) issued a Final Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Savannah River Site (SRS) Integrated Mission Completion Contract (IMCC) procurement.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Phoenix and Grand Canyon, AZ - The Arizona Game and Fish Commission (AZGFD) and the National Park Service (NPS) entered into an agreement on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020 to reduce the number of bison present on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 30, 2020, Damion Phillip Gress, age 24, of Franklin County, was indicted by a federal grand jury for offenses involving the exploitation of minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Selmonio Davis, 44, of Albuquerque, was sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque on Sept. 25 to nine years in prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
Release: DULLES, Va. - Transportation Security Administration officers at Washington Dulles International Airport detected a live military smoke grenade in a traveler’s checked baggage earlier this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, KY- A Frankfort woman, Lesley Wade, age, was sentenced in federal court on Friday to 60 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove, for money laundering and filing a materially false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. David Ferguson, 48, previously pled guilty to the distribution of heroin. At sentencing, the Court found that because he had two prior felony offenses that were crimes of violence, Ferguson was a career offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Erin Pealor, 36, of Maryville, TN, has been sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for attempting to acquire or obtain a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception, or subterfuge. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee and Brian Rabbitt, Acting Assistant Attorney General Justice Department’s Criminal Division, announced the sentence today.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation today announced that the marketing assistance loan rate for 2021-crop base quality upland cotton is 52 cents per pound.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national who previously resided in Boston was sentenced today in federal court for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, oxycodone and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Henrico County man was sentenced today to 26 years in prison for the armed robbery of two pharmacies in 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former employee of William “Rick" Singer’s “The Key" for-profit business pleaded guilty today in connection with her involvement in a scheme to use bribery and fraud to facilitate the admission of applicants to colleges nationwide.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement today after Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats passed a $2.2 trillion-dollar socialist wish list riddled with radical left priorities...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge today sentenced a former Chicago Police sergeant to 13 years in prison for participating in a robbery and extortion crew.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Demethius Dixon, also known as “Deezy," 28, of Louisiana, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Keith Starrett for carrying and using a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, resulting in the firearm being discharged, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Brad Byerley with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
