News from September 2020
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - In support of President Donald J. Trump’s America-First Energy Strategy, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) published in the Federal Register proposed revisions to three key oil and gas production reporting regulations, which kicks off a 60-day public comment period.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that four school districts in the Middle District of Florida (MDFL) have received a total of $1,316,375 from the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP). Nationally...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Two defendants were sentenced Wednesday to 20 years each in federal prison for crimes committed in connection with the manufacture of synthetic cannabinoid products (commonly referred to as “spice"), operating a continuing criminal enterprise, manufacturing and distributing controlled...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Shenandoah National Park is pleased to announce the selection of two artists during September for the Artist-in-Residence program. Harlan Butt is a metalsmith and Paul Chojnowski creates fire drawings.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to the Treasury Department’s actions to place sanctions on Andrii Derkach for efforts to interfere in the election. Treasury’s move comes a week after Wyden led a letter requesting Treasury take action to sanction Derkach and other individuals involved in election interference...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Skyland Washington, 32, of New Iberia, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. for Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon. Washington was sentenced to 36 months (3 years) in prison, followed by 2 years of supervised release. Washington previously pled guilty to the charge in United States District Court on Feb. 13, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada announced today that the Clark County School District Police Department received $500,000 from the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Defendant faces a five year mandatory minimum sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - The owner of two Rhode Island businesses that supply steel and iron to construction sites today admitted that over a period of two years he intentionally failed to turn over to the IRS in excess of $570,000 in employment taxes withheld from his employees. Instead, he admitted, he used the funds to finance personal expenditures such as rent payments on a luxury home and online dating services.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Charles B. King, 36, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to being a felon in possession of ammunition. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of obstructing law enforcement during civil disorder, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Defendant Lied About His Misdemeanor Conviction for Domestic Violence.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA), Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services, delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing to discuss gender-based protections...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after a federal court struck down President Donald Trump’s memorandum attempting to ban undocumented immigrants from the 2020 Census count...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Today marks the second virtual hearing for the Trade Subcommittee, and the first hearing we are holding on the Caribbean in this Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man has been charged in federal court with drug trafficking and illegally possessing firearms after law enforcement officers found firearms and large quantities of illegal drugs in his vehicle at the Argosy Casino.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Washington - The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing more than $2 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in North Carolina. This investment is part of the $100 million Congress allocated to the ReConnect Program through the CARES Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, NY - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr, announced today that the Irondequoit Police Department, the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, and the Hamburg Central School District have each been awarded a grant from the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office)...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-William Gregory Douglas, 38, of Cave Junction, Oregon, was sentenced to 16 months in federal prison today and three years’ supervised release for threatening to shoot YouTube employees at the company’s San Bruno, California headquarters after his account was removed for violating the video-sharing platform’s terms of service.
