News from September 2020
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - The White River and Little Snake field offices, along with Moffat and Rio Blanco counties, will revert from Stage 2 to Stage 1 fire restrictions on Wednesday, September 30. The Colorado River Valley Field Office and Kremmling Field Office in Eagle County will remain in Stage 1 restrictions, while Kremmling Field Office in Grand, Jackson, Routt, and Summit counties will remain in Stage 2 fire restrictions.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: UPTON, N.Y. - Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar and Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center Deputy Director Melody Bell, pictured at left, recently visited Brookhaven National Laboratory and viewed progress in an EM project to demolish the High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) exhaust stack...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: CARTAGENA, Colombia - The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) receives computer forensics equipment from HSI Cyber Crime Center (C3) that will support criminal investigations in the city of Cartagena and the surrounding region. The creation of Transnational Cyber Crimes Investigative Laboratory (TC2IL) is critical to supporting the fight against the sexual exploitation of children and disrupting transnational crimes.
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, released an unredacted version of a 2006 Intelligence Assessment by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) entitled, “White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice announced a settlement with the Churchill Downs Louisiana Horseracing Company LLC, d/b/a Fair Grounds Corporation (Fair Grounds) that will resolve years of Clean Water Act (CWA) violations at its New Orleans racetrack.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Alfred David Villasenor, 36, of Chico, pleaded guilty on Monday to being a prohibited person in possession of ammunition, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A Felony Information filed in federal court charges Christopher D. Hales, 39, of Lehi with wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy in connection with a financial fraud scheme he and other co-conspirators devised while Hales was in a halfway house serving a sentence for another federal fraud case.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Raymond P. Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), announced that RICHARD MENDOZA was charged in an indictment with conspiring to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Jesus Soto-Martinez (41, Michoacan, Mexico) was sentenced to 21 years and 3 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine while onboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, forcibly interfering with a lawful boarding, and knowingly using fire to commit a felony offense. Soto-Martinez had pleaded guilty on Nov. 20, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: Previously Convicted of Burglary Three Times.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: Rian Patterson Sentenced for Northern New York Gun Store Break-ins.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Susan A. Gibson, and the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced the leader of an international money laundering organization in the Dominican Republic was arraigned in New Jersey today after being extradited to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: JPMorgan Chase & Co. Agrees To Pay $920 Million in Connection with Schemes to Defraud Precious Metals and U.S. Treasuries Markets.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A real estate developer and attorney pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Worcester in connection with a $2.3 million fraud scheme relating to the redevelopment of a multi-family property in Worcester.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: The second of two men charged in June 2019 after more than 45 pounds of cocaine were seized from a Savannah shipment has admitted guilt to a federal drug trafficking charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today raised concerns about the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) strong reliance on highly partisan unions for election-related operations, including handling of ballots, and the risk it poses to Americans’ confidence in election results.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for cocaine trafficking.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, recently was the keynote speaker at the 2020 Agri-Pulse Ag & Food Policy Summit DC.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: LIVERMORE, Calif. - The first transuranic (TRU) waste shipment to depart Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in a decade has been safely shipped to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) for permanent disposal earlier this month.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter was sentenced on Sept. 28, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
