News from October 2020
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - Due to continued extreme fire behavior and rapid fire growth, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Kremmling Field Office has issued an additional area closure in the vicinity of the East Troublesome Fire.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement ahead of the 2-year anniversary of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act being signed into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: San Juan, PR - On Oct. 20, 2020 the United States Marshals Service in the District of Puerto Rico, along with many other federal and local agencies joined the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in the celebration of Red Ribbon Week.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal criminal complaint against IVAN HARRISON HUNTER, 26, charging him with participating in a riot. HUNTER, who was arrested on Oct. 21, 2020, in San Antonio, Texas, made his initial appearance yesterday before Magistrate Judge Henry Bemporad in U.S. District Court in San Antonio, Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) updated its Mineral Materials Disposal Handbook to ensure consistency among BLM offices and provide clarity for companies working on split estate lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: In El Paso, the federal grand jury indicted 39-year-old Allan Francisco Castrillo Bastos, a citizen of Costa Rica residing in El Paso, in connection with a scheme to steal over $1 million from dozens of unsuspecting individuals who believed they had won the lottery and had to pay a tax in advance of receiving their winnings. On Wednesday, Castrillo Bastos waived arraignment and entered a plea of not guilty to the charges contained in the indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: American International Group Agrees to Disallowance of More Than $400 Million in Foreign Tax Credits and Imposition of 10 Percent Tax Penalty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Charles Williams, 49, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur today announced $1,358,011 in Department of Justice grants to institutions, agencies and organizations for research and evaluation projects that identify data-driven programs for reducing crime and promoting justice. The awards span research topic priorities such as prisoner reentry, terrorism prevention, human trafficking and police officer safety and wellness.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: Shortly before 6 p.m. on Friday, October 23rd 2020 missing person Mark Langenbach was located by Search and Rescue teams along the Under-the-Rim trail near Yellow Creek. A helicopter crew transported him to the Visitor Center area for a medical assessment and to be reunited with his family.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: ROANOKE, Va.- James Robert Banks, a Roanoke man responsible for distributing between one and three kilograms of heroin throughout the Roanoke area in 2019, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Roanoke to 132 months in federal prison following his conviction earlier this year on federal drug...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $328,972 grant to the county of Richland, Wisconsin, and the Southwestern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, Platteville, Wisconsin, to develop an economic...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management recently revised conditions or stipulations that will be placed on Federal mineral lease parcels previously sold by the BLM in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas. The revised stipulations cover competitive oil and gas lease sales held in June 2019, September 2019, November 2019 and February 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - The Transportation Security Administration discovered a loaded firearm at a Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (CHA) checkpoint Thursday.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that a federal jury in Mobile, Alabama found defendant Stanley Young, 32, of Selma, Alabama, guilty on all charges in an armed bank robbery case. United States District Judge Terry F. Moorer presided over the trial...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Francheska Quinones, age 28, formerly of Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Oct. 20, 2020, before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, to conspiracy to distribute more...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. sentenced Jerry Lewis Taylor, 55, of Wingate, N.C., to five years in prison followed by two years of supervised release, for conspiring to steal millions from Medicaid and committing tax evasion, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Kemnorris Kinsey, age 33, of Syracuse, was sentenced today to serve 150 months in federal prison for violating the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon, Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CRAIG ZABALA, the chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Concorde Group Holdings Inc. (“Holdings"), pled guilty before U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken to conspiracy to commit...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, will convene an informal interview Friday with Tony Bobulinski, a former Hunter Biden business associate.
