News from April 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Marlandow Johnson, 45, of Jackson, pled guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Henry T. Wingate to possessing a firearm after having been previously convicted of a felony crime, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: DETROIT - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying a suspect responsible for the burglary and theft of multiple firearms and firearm silencers from Schupbach’s Sporting Goods, located at 141 W. Pearl Street, Jackson, Michigan, on May 8, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Christopher Dobbins, a former employee of a medical device packaging company, has been charged by criminal complaint for conducting a computer intrusion into his former employer’s package shipping system and deleting shipping information.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO - N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 22-count Superseding Indictment charging David Burgin, David Washington a/k/a Dirty Dave a/k/a Dirt a/k/a Wavy Davey a/k/a Brick Boy Dave, Eleazar Martinez Medina, Rodney Pierce, Torrance Bailey...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: I. Illegal Reentry After Deportation (8 U.S.C. 1326).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS-Eastern District of Louisiana U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser, sent a letter to hospital executives throughout Southeast Louisiana on April 15, 2020, asking for their assistance in identifying individuals and companies that may have acquired vital medical supplies for the purpose of hoarding or price gouging.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 22-count Superseding Indictment charging David Burgin, David Washington a/k/a Dirty Dave a/k/a Dirt a/k/a Wavy Davey...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) issued the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is not “appropriate and necessary" to regulate hazardous air pollutants such as mercury from coal- and oil-fired power plants - reversing a 2016 EPA determination...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - April 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Today the Virginia Coronavirus Fraud Task Force issued a warning to the public of financial scams regarding Economic Impact Payments currently being distributed by the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that three Canadian men were sentenced on April 15, 2020, for their roles in a bogus sweepstakes scam that defrauded 45 victims across the United States out of $302,045.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $4.5 million grant to the Local Redevelopment Authority for Roosevelt Roads, San Juan, Puerto Rico, to rehabilitate a building and make other infrastructure...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Greenville has returned indictments charging MARIO SOTELO, age 48, a naturalized citizen of the U.S., born in Mexico, with passport fraud and possession of a fraudulent...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined it is no longer “appropriate and necessary" to protect public health from mercury and other ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is authorizing importation of fresh sand pears from all prefectures of Japan into the United States. After careful analysis, APHIS scientists have determined that sand pears from all production areas of Japan (excluding Amami, Bonin, Ryukyu, Tokara, and the Volcano Islands) can be safely imported under the current import requirements.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) issued the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is not “appropriate and necessary" to regulate hazardous air pollutants such as mercury from coal- and oil-fired power plants - reversing a 2016 EPA determination...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: Washington - Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and Senate president pro tempore, will join the bipartisan task force focused on safely re-opening America following the current public health crisis. The task force includes Democrat and Republican members of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: New Haven - John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LESTER BURROUGHS, 61, of Torrington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden to 33 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for misappropriating approximately $575,000 from investment clients, most of whom were elderly.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) reacts to the Paycheck Protection Program running out of funding and being appointed to the bipartisan task force to advise on opening the U.S. economy...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) reacts to the Paycheck Protection Program running out of funding and being appointed to the bipartisan task force to advise on opening the U.S. economy...
