News from October 2020
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: On October 5, 2020, Southern California Edison (SCE) will begin constructing a 12 kilovolt (kV) electric distribution line along Park Boulevard from the Twentynine Palms entrance of Joshua Tree National Park to the Pinto Wye turnoff. The project will replace a deteriorated 1960’s era buried line that is at the end of its life cycle. The distribution line supplies power to several users, including the park and Belle Mountain.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 29, 2020, Robert Duus, age 34, of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for attempted online enticement of a minor and attempted sex trafficking of a child.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - This week, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and 18 of her Democratic Senate colleagues, introduced the Public Health Infrastructure Saves Lives Act (PHISLA). The legislation would establish a new...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Law Enforcement Deploys Resources to Recover Assets for Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a 10-count indictment today against Michael Garcia, 32; Nancy Garcia, 31; Gonzalo Garcia, 55; and Tylor Combs, 40, all of Sacramento, charging them with narcotics and firearms offenses, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: The FBI Washington Field Office Announces José Andrés as the Recipient of the 2019 FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) today released the following statement on the escalation of fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh:
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced the unsealing of a Second Superseding Indictment charging the following: Ebenezer Yeboah Asane (“Asane") 37, of Fayetteville, North Carolina; James Earnest Ekow Arthur, 32, of El Paso, Texas; Ernest Atta Gyasi, 43, of Bronx, New York; Samuel Manu...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Two Texas Syndicate gang members were sentenced today to a combined 50 years in prison for drug trafficking in Lubbock, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.166 million grant to the Governor’s Energy Office, Augusta, Maine, to develop a roadmap for establishing an offshore wind power industry. The EDA grant will be matched with $267,624 in state funds and $112,457 in local funds.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
Release: APHIS updated the to include the following changes:APHIS restricts the movement of domestic soil from areas within the continental United States that are under quarantine for specific plant pests. The Federal Domestic Soil Quarantines Map provides an overview of the plant pest quarantines that affect ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Mexican man pled guilty to drug and immigration offenses today, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Joel Gonzalez-Gomez, 31, of Chiapas, Mexico, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and illegal reentry of a removed alien. As a result of his guilty plea, Gonzalez-Gomez is subject to removal proceedings.
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, requested the immediate production of documents related to the impact to the accuracy and completeness of the 2020 Census of the Trump Administration’s decision to defy a federal court ruling extending the Census count to Oct. 31, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that HECTOR B. CHUKWUEMEKA OKWUOSA, LADC, and his business, MY FATHER MY SON REHABILITATION AND COUNSELING CENTER LLC, have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal and state governments and paid $230,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the federal and state False Claims Acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a Tuscaloosa man for sexually exploiting two young children, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-The House Committee on Oversight and Reform this week held a two-part hearing on lowering drug prices. At the hearing, Republicans highlighted the Trump administration’s actions to lower drug prices, House Republicans’ proposal to decrease drug prices, the importance of removing regulatory barriers to continue healthcare innovations and discoveries, and ways to improve drug affordability and access.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Ten Men Sentenced to Prison for Their Roles in a Child Exploitation Enterprise and Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: October is national domestic violence awareness month.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Forty nine defendants, including two doctors and five pharmacists, have been charged with participating in an $18 million pill mill scheme, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced yesterday that it has awarded more than $295.8 million to improve public safety, serve victims of crime and support youth programs in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
