News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Alan Longmore Secretly Recorded Minors Engaged in Sexual Acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - David A. Hood, of Moundsville, West Virginia, has admitted to drug charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to news that President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, signed onto a letter calling to “put an end to the barbaric legacy of Roe. V. Wade."
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 $1.5 million grant to the city of Levelland, Texas, to make rail, road, and water infrastructure improvements needed to support expansion efforts of manufacturers...
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 $3.3 million grant to Calumet City, Illinois, to make road and water infrastructure improvements needed to support development at the city’s Riverside Drive...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An operations manager of a North Dakota-based company that sells clothing and others items to the U.S. military, U.S. government, police, and others, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Providence, RI, for his alleged role in a conspiracy that sold more than twenty million dollars-worth of counterfeit goods to military and government purchasers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DIAVION HUTCHINGS, also known as “Avi," 19, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to two years of probation for obstructing justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Wolf Point woman who admitted selling large quantities of the pain medication, oxycodone, on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 15 months in prison and two years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Lorenzo Watson, 29, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer to possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a felon. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a fine of $1,000,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the indictment of Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, Samuel Reed, and Gregory...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Mike Gonzales joined the Bureau of African Affairs in October 2020. His portfolio covers West Africa and the Sahel Region. He previously served as the Director for Analysis of Africa in the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor, Mike previously served as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. at the U.S. Embassies in Kathmandu, Nepal and Lilongwe, Malawi.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: A bill to ensure that Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funds can be used by airports to incentivize the early completion of critical runway and airport projects was approved by the House of Representatives today.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: BOULDER, Colo. - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a crowdsourcing challenge to spur new methods to ensure that important public safety data sets can be de-identified to protect individual privacy. The Differential Privacy Temporal Map...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Jesus Silverio Cervantes, 36, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who formerly lived in Abbeville, Louisiana, has been sentenced. United States District Judge Dee Drell sentenced Cervantes to 120 months (10 years) in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release for possession of heroin with intent to distribute.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed, on a 214 to 207 vote, an updated version of The Heroes Act, addressing needs that have developed since the House passed an earlier iteration and formalizing House Democrats’ proffer in ongoing negotiations between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Three men charged with federal gun crimes appeared in court this week, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Gerlach, Nevada - The Black Rock Field Office announced today it will begin accepting pre-scoping comments on a Utilization Plan and a Plan of Development proposed by Ormat Technologies Inc. for the Gerlach, Nevada area. The feedback received will help the BLM determine if an Environmental Assessment or an Environmental Impact Statement will be prepared. The 60-day pre-scoping period will end Nov. 30, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, Wv. - The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) today announced that it has effectively dismantled an illegal steroid manufacturing and distribution facility, operating out of a private residence in Huntington. DEA Special Agents, working closely with their law enforcement partners, discovered...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Eddil Ortez, 27, of Manchester, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for attempted possession of fentanyl and cocaine with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
