News from October 2020
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Lakeview, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Lakeview District will be performing aerial herbicide applications across 20,700 acres starting Nov. 2, 2020, and is expected to be completed by Nov. 15, 2020, depending on weather conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Brandon Massie was sentenced to 15 months in prison for conspiring to distribute K2 controlled substances (Schedule I synthetic cannabinoids) while serving a federal prison sentence in 2017, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) released the following statement today in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) agenda for tomorrow’s open meeting...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: YADKINVILLE, N.C., Oct. 26, 2020 - The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $2.3 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in North Carolina. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Candi Fluhr, 44, has been sentenced to a total of 94 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings followed by a 3 year term of supervised release for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, theft from an employee benefit plan, and filing false tax returns, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman. She was also ordered to pay $838,804 in restitution between four victims.
By State Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Report to Congress on. Strategic Review of Task Force. Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking Act of 2016. PL 114-231, Sec. 301(d). 2020 Strategic Review. Read the 2020 END Wildlife Trafficking Report. The Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking Act (P.L. 114-231; 16 U.S.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. -John Michael Gray, 33, of Onslow County, was sentenced to 168 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture of substance containing methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute a quantity of a mixture of substance containing methamphetamine and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Two Lynn men were sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with drug and firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Melvin Yovanni Maradiaga-Leinus a/k/a “Melvin Lainez," 39, a native and citizen of Honduras, was sentenced for illegally possessing a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced. United States District Judge Robert R. Summerhays sentenced Maradiaga-Leinus to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced this week that Corey Roshel Powell, age 42, of Delhi, Louisiana, pled guilty before U.S. Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick to wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud the USDA’s Summer Food Service Program. Janie Johnson Smith, age 40, of Monroe, Louisiana...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: EPHRATA, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation determined a hole discovered 60 feet downstream of Pinto Dam was a result of settling material. Furthermore, no underlying structural concerns were identified. The hole, which was about 3 feet in diameter and 2 feet deep, was excavated, the area backfilled and compacted, and the investigation was concluded.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Rawlins County, Kansas, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses caused by recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Columbus, OH - During the month of October, the U.S. Marshals Service Offices in Southern Ohio and Southern West Virginia, in conjunction with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office and the Central Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force participated in operation “Autumn Hope". Operation Autumn Hope was a multi-agency...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A second Savannah man has admitted taking part in the March 2019 robbery of a bar that left a U.S. Army serviceman wounded.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: An op-ed by Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), published by The Hill today, discusses how infrastructure failed in 2020 when it became a partisan issue, and how Republicans will be prepared to come to the table with their priorities and work across the aisle in the 117th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Jay Zollicoffer was sentenced to serve a total of 22 ½ years in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for three counts of brandishing a firearm during the commission of a robbery and one count of robbery. His codefendant, Marco Jackson...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: FAIRBANKS, AK - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Eastern Interior Field Office, under authority delegated by the Federal Subsistence Board, will open caribou hunting on federal public lands in Units 20E, 25C, and 20F East of the Dalton Highway and South of the Yukon River on Oct. 27, 2020, to provide harvest opportunities for federal subsistence users.
By State Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representatives Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Nita Lowey, Chairwoman of the House Committee on Appropriations, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn today announced that Timothy Hummel, age 26, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was sentenced to time served, followed by 3 years on supervised release for threatening to murder federal law enforcement officers. Hummel appeared at the sentencing hearing remotely while free on bond. The Denver office of the FBI and the Federal Protective Service (FPS) joined in today’s announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - United States Attorney Andrew Lelling announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Eugenia Carris will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming Nov. 3, 2020, general election.
