News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Donald Lewis, 43, of Jackson, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III to 30 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Lewis was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By State Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: Dear Prime Minister Johnson: We write to you as strong supporters of the long-standing critical alliance between the United States and the United Kingdom, and as Americans who remain grateful for the friendship of the British people. We, however, write with grave concern over the recent reports that...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The EM complex is in a transformational period as long-term construction projects will soon shift to operations to tackle the Department’s most challenging environmental risk - radioactive waste stored in underground tanks, EM Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Todd Shrader said during a conference address last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Porcupine, South Dakota, man convicted of Voluntary Manslaughter was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Three residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Members of an FBI-led task force this morning arrested 18 individuals named in a series of federal indictments that allege narcotics trafficking and firearms offenses, including the illegal sale of five AR-15-style “ghost guns.".
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has issued a final rule, effective Oct. 1, 2020, which updates the cost recovery fees that the BLM charges for processing certain actions undertaken by its mineral programs. Specifically, this final rule updates the fees charged to recover costs...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that a federal grand jury returned a Third Superseding Indictment on Sept. 15, 2020, which charged Sean Fiore, 36, of Burlington, Vermont, with murder for hire, conspiracy to kidnap and murder a person overseas, and five...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and its liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have completed significant upgrades to accelerate treatment and dispositioning of decontaminated salt waste.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: WACO, TX - Federal and state authorities arrested seven individuals in McLennan, Bell and Coryell counties for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution operation, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division; U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; and, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: Gaffney, SC - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Ninety Six National Historic Site (NHS), Cowpens National Battlefield (NB), and Kings Mountain National Military Park (NMP) are all increasing access.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A law enforcement officer from Texas was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for sexual exploitation of a minor and cyberstalking charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that median household income in 2019 increased 6.8% from 2018, and the official poverty rate decreased 1.3 percentage points. Meanwhile the percentage of people with health insurance coverage for all or part of 2019 was 92.0% and 8.0% of people, or 26.1 million, did not have health insurance at any point during 2019, according to the 2020 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A law enforcement officer from Texas was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for sexual exploitation of a minor and cyberstalking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two California men today admitted to participating in a conspiracy to broker patients as part of a multi-state patient scheme in which one of them directed recruiters to bribe drug-addicted individuals to enroll in drug rehabilitation and the other paid referral fees from his rehabilitation center in exchange for those patient referrals, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: The Uranium Leasing Program (ULP), managed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM), celebrated a milestone this summer that was nearly 10 years in the making. As of July 2020, lessees signed agreements for the last remaining active ULP tracts (29 in total), opening the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Crystal Austin, 40, Belton, Missouri was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 65 months in federal prison, for conspiring with Shelly Scott, Jason Edge, and others to commit wire fraud throughout the country. Austin was ordered to pay restitution of over $860,000 to Walmart, Inc., jointly with the other conspirators.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: Somerset County Man Admits Concealing Material Support to Hamas.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) Program announced today it is granting authority to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) for managing the assignment of CVE Identifiers (IDs) for the CVE Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang today sentenced Marquis Von Clemons, age 38, of Langley Park, Maryland, to 92 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for bank robbery. Judge Chuang also entered an order requiring Clemons to forfeit and to pay restitution in the amount of $5,080.
