News from September 2020
By USDA Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: Cal Tex Produce L.P. violated the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) by failing to pay a reparation award in the amount of $8,030 in February 2020. As a result, USDA imposed sanctions on the business, including requiring that all principals may not be employed by or affiliated with any PACA licensee without USDA approval.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Kornaker, 50, of North Tonawanda, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with wire fraud in relation to a national emergency, and aggravated identity theft. The charges carry a minimum penalty of two years in prison, a maximum penalty of 30 years, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: BAKER CITY, Ore. -- The Bureau of Land Management’s National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center will showcase the pioneer spirit and settlement of the West throughout October.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today returned a superseding indictment that charges a San Gabriel Valley woman with sex trafficking five immigrant women by hiring them to work at massage parlors and forcing them to engage in commercial sex acts.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded the Hanford 222-S Laboratory Contract that will provide analytical laboratory services at the Hanford Site, to Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration, LLC (HLMI) located in Richland, WA. The HLMI members are Navarro Research and Engineering...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
Release: EAU CLAIRE, WI - A state-of-the-art advanced technology computed tomography scanner (CT) that provides 3-D imaging has been installed and is in use at the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) baggage screening area at Chippewa Valley Regional Airport (EAU).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: A felon who was found in possession of a firearm following a shots fired call pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Kevin Vigil, 54, of Española, New Mexico, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Sept. 22 for sexually abusing a six-year-old child.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Acting United States Attorney John Childress and Assistant Attorney General Brian Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in the Southern District of Indiana returned an indictment charging a former Indiana state senator and...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. -Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, held a remote hearing to examine white supremacists’ infiltration of local law enforcement.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site will conduct lethal removal of white-tailed deer as part of the White-tailed Deer Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement between September 2020 through March 2021. This action addresses over-browsing of native vegetation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. - Recompensas están siendo ofrecidas por información que lleve al arresto o convicción de tres ex-funcionarios Venezolanos quienes durante años no han cumplido con asistir en persona a sus comparecencias iniciales en el Distrito Sur de Florida para enfrentar los cargos federales de narcotráfico presentados públicamente.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - John Maasen, 64, of Olivehurst, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to 10 years in prison for possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah -The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is considering a proposed right-of-way to extend the Long Valley Road, which is part of a Washington City, Utah, master planned roadway that would connect the existing Long Valley Road Interchange with a planned interchange on the Southern Parkway known as Interchange 11 (3650 South).
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, published a column on FoxNews.com on the mainstream media’s approach to his committee’s recent findings about the involvement of Joe Biden’s family with corrupt foreign individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Fairfax man pleaded guilty today to dealing in firearms without a license.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Boston Grand Prix was arrested today on charges that he failed to report income that he received from serving as executive with the Boston Grand Prix organization on his federal tax returns and for a scheme to defraud equipment and small business financing companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of JEREMIAH KINGBIRD, 39, to 192 months in prison for second degree murder. KINGBIRD, who pleaded guilty on October 8, 2019, was sentenced today before Judge Susan Richard Nelson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on Sept. 28, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Edward Brown, 78, formerly of Plainfield, was sentenced to serve 300 months in federal prison at a resentencing hearing, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
