News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - An Ellaville, Georgia man, found in possession of a stolen gun by Perry Police officers, pleaded guilty to his crime this week, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Medford, Ore. - As a result of extreme fire activity, the Bureau of Land Management Medford District has temporarily closed all BLM-administered public lands from Township 38S south to the California border and from Range 2E east to the Klamath County border.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department announced today the filing of civil forfeiture complaints seeking the forfeiture and recovery of more than $300 million in additional assets allegedly associated with an international conspiracy to launder funds misappropriated from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Education and Labor Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), and Senate Finance...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement on Committee Democrats’ continued attempts to politicize the search for a COVID-19 vaccine and the administration’s response efforts.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee legislative hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Opportunities for an Equitable, Low-Carbon Recovery."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A significant U.S. Department of Justice grant will allow a Jesup domestic violence shelter to expand its educational and crisis support programs into nearby rural communities in partnership with a Brunswick shelter.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that Gavaughn Gaquez Streeter-Hillerich, 22, has been charged by criminal complaint with two counts of using fire to maliciously damage and attempt to damage a building housing the Portland Police Bureau’s North Precinct and various private businesses on June 26, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today attended and briefly spoke at a subcommittee hearing held by the Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining (PLFM). Murkowski spoke about the western wildfire crisis and S. 2533, a bill she introduced to help ensure Alaska Native elders are not disqualified from receiving food assistance and other federal benefits.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee legislative hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Opportunities for an Equitable, Low-Carbon Recovery."
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: RAWLINS, Wyo. - In support of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) mission to sustainably manage wild horses and burros on public rangelands, the BLM Rawlins and Lander field offices plan to begin gathering and removing wild horses on or after Oct. 6, 2020, from the Red Desert Wild Horse Complex in southwestern Wyoming. This continues a gather that initially began in August 2018 but concluded early when off-range corrals reached maximum capacity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An Indian national has admitted to a federal court judge in Rhode Island that he sought to misappropriate funds from bank accounts of victims across the United States, using personal and banking information obtained from the victims earlier in the course of an India-based telemarketing scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park invites everyone to participate in National Public Lands Day this year by doing something good for the ‘āina (land), and to take advantage of a fee-free day on Saturday, September 26. All federal fee-charging lands in the U.S. are free of charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: Defendants believed to be living in Iran and the Palestinian Authority.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and its liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) are advancing a project to double-stack canisters containing high-level radioactive sludge waste.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: FBI Richmond’s Central Virginia Violent Crimes Task Force Offers $15,000 Reward in 2012 Cold Case.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: On Monday, Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari sent a letter to House Chairs Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) declining to issue an opinion on the Government Accountability Office’s erroneous and partisan August 14 report on the succession of leadership at DHS.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that it has reached a settlement with the City of Venice, Florida, resolving its race discrimination lawsuit against the city. The suit alleged the city violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it subjected James Williamson, a 30-year Black city employee, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: Each weekday, the Department of Justice will highlight a case that has resulted from Operation Legend. Today’s case is out of the District of New Mexico. Operation Legend launched in Albuquerque on July 22, 2020, in response to the city facing increased homicide and non-fatal shooting rates.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agent and his wife pleaded guilty Monday to all charges in a 19-count indictment unsealed against them on Feb. 21, 2020. U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Wilson accepted the guilty pleas in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Jose ...
