News from October 2020
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. - Reclamation has announced the selection of Marlon Duke to fill a vacant Deputy Regional Director position for the Missouri Basin & Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas Gulf Region, headquartered in Billings, Montana.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Defendant also sold heroin to an undercover DEA agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that RUDY GUNAWAN, age 40, a native of Indonesia, was charged on Oct. 23, 2020 in a one-count indictment with possession of fraudulent immigration documents prescribed by statute or regulation for entry into or as evidence of authorized stay or employment in the United States, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1546(a).
By State Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Congressman Michael T. McCaul (R-TX), Republican Leader of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement at the conclusion of the third annual U.S.-India 2+2 dialogue on October 27th between Secretary of State Pompeo, Secretary of Defense Esper, and Indian External Affairs Minister Jaishankar and Defense Minister Singh...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today slammed new claims from the Trump administration that the COVID-19 pandemic is over despite record viral transmissions sweeping the country, and dire warnings that health care may soon need to be rationed as hospitals reach capacity.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot Shea, Police...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Jennifer Caloia Will Pay Insurance Companies, State and Federal Governments, in Settlement of Criminal and Civil Liability.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - In response to recent widespread precipitation across the region, the Bureau of Land Management’s San Luis Valley and Royal Gorge field offices are lifting fire restrictions on BLM-managed lands in eastern and southern Colorado. Fire restrictions will be lifted on BLM lands in both field offices effective today, October 28.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: SOMERSET, Ky., Oct. 28, 2020 - The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $5 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in Kentucky. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public nominations for positions on the Northern California District Resource Advisory Council (RAC) and the California Desert District District Advisory Council (DAC). These regional citizen advisory councils assist in the development of recommendations that address public land management issues.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - While at Neil Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt signed a Secretary’s Order that waives entrance fees to national parks, wildlife refuges and other public lands and waters managed by the Department of the Interior for 5th grade students and their families from now until Aug. 31, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On October 8, Corey Chrispin Henry, 25, of Cibecue, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge Dominic W. Lanza to 24 months in prison, followed by 36 months of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Afghan National Arrested for 2008 Abduction of American Journalist.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ameer Elashmawy, 28, of Rochester, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with unauthorized access of a protected computer and identity theft. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JASON WHITEHEAD, 41, of Springfield, Massachusetts, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to a charge related to his defrauding multiple companies through a flexible spending account scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Jennifer Caloia, age 56, a licensed pharmacist who owned and operated Dougherty Pharmacy in Morrisville, New York, from 1998 to 2015, pled guilty today in federal court in Utica to one felony count of health care fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon;...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated four New Hampshire counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Belknap, Merrimack, Rockingham and Strafford counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: While at Neil Smith National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt signed a Secretary’s Order that waives entrance fees to national parks, wildlife refuges and other public lands and waters managed by the Department of the Interior for 5th grade students and their families from now until Aug. 31, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A Lame Deer man who admitted shooting a woman in the head while drinking with friends at his residence on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 37 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2020
Release: DETROIT - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stopped a man from carrying a.40 caliber handgun and a magazine loaded with 13 bullets onto an airplane at Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) Tuesday.
