News from September 2020
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. September 9, 2020 - Two fires are being monitored in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks within the designated wilderness. Both fires are naturally caused lightning strikes. The fires are slow-growing and display creeping and smoldering behavior deep within the wilderness boundaries, offering no threat to human safety or loss of property.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas resident made his initial appearance in federal court on September 4, 2020 for illegally possessing machine guns and unregistered firearm suppressors, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich of the District of Nevada, Special Agent in Charge Frank Burrola for Homeland...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is proud to partner with Lake Havasu Sea Scouts, Lake Havasu Police Department, Mohave County Sheriff’s Office and San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department in a shoreline cleanup of Steamboat Cove, one of the BLM’s most popular boat-in recreation sites on Lake Havasu. Access to the beach at Steamboat Cove will be limited from 7 to 11 a.m. on September 20 during the cleanup.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: West Virginia Hospital Agrees To Pay $50 Million To Settle Allegations Concerning Improper Compensation To Referring Physicians.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 42-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for a bombing incident in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment yesterday charging DEMETRIUS DREW, 25, of New Haven, with one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and one count of possession of ammunition by a convicted felon.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the second phase of the experimental Household Pulse Survey. The Household Pulse Survey is the result of an effort by the Census Bureau and other federal statistical agencies to document temporal trends in how individuals are experiencing business curtailment...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Coos Bay, Ore. - As a result of extreme fire danger, the Bureau of Land Management Coos Bay District has temporarily closed all developed recreation sites east of Highway 101, with the exception of Dean Creek Elk Viewing Area. The closure will be in place from September 9 through September 16.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) initiated an investigation that lead to the guilty plea Wednesday of a south Texas man for his role in wire fraud and extortion under color of official right. The investigation was coordinated by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) working jointly with ICE Office of Professional and Responsibility (OPR).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A member of a violent Chicago street gang has been sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for engaging in a pattern of racketeering activity that included murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Two multi-convicted felons will spend the next 180 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm. Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced the sentences, which were handed down today in federal court. Demarcus King, 35, of North Little ...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’d like to start by sending my prayers to the people of southwest Louisiana, including Lake Charles, who are still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Laura. We will continue to stand with them and help them as they rebuild their homes and communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Government Continues Crackdown on People Who Defraud Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK CITY - Raymond P. Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Audrey Strauss, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Keith M. Corlett, Superintendent of the New York State Police, Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: VERMILION CLIFFS, Ariz. - Every year hundreds of people gather at Vermilion Cliffs National Monument to watch one of conservation’s biggest spectacles - the release of captive-bred California Condors to the wild. This day is a celebration of the dedication and tenacity that hundreds of people have put...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KEITH SANFORD, 33, of Litchfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to five years of probation for embezzling nearly $40,000 in postal money orders while working for the U.S. Postal Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - An employee of the Milford Public Schools was arrested today and charged with possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 45-year-old Dayton, Texas man has pleaded guilty to a federal firearms violation in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Reno man was sentenced today to 5 years and 3 months in federal prison for possessing thousands of child sexual abuse images and videos, including prepubescent minors involved in sexually explicit conduct and sadistic and masochistic conduct, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: A Glendale, California attorney pleaded guilty today for conspiring to make and conceal conduit and excessive campaign contributions during the U.S. presidential election in 2016 and thereafter.
