News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced a Mexican citizen, J. Refugio Medina-Zamarripa (40, Mascotte), to two years in federal prison for passport fraud and aggravated identity theft. Medina-Zamarripa had pleaded guilty on Jan. 13, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANCISCO LEON, also known as “Gordo," 41, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin and illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Anthony Rush, age 31, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charge is contained in an Indictment unsealed on Aug. 14, 2020, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Lynn Haven City’s Mayor and Attorney are the subjects of a 64-count indictment returned yesterday by a federal grand jury in Panama City, Florida. Lynn Haven Mayor Margo Anderson, 65, of Jacksonville, Florida, and Lynn Haven City Attorney Joseph Adam Albritton, 33, of Lynn Haven...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for distributing fentanyl.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA-House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to temporarily halt sending notices for unpaid taxes to taxpayers who may have been affected by the mail backlog caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Reports indicate that many taxpayers...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, Daniel Eric Cobble, age 45, was sentenced to a term of 20 years of federal imprisonment for mailing threatening letters to United States District Court Judges of the Middle District of Georgia announced Louis V. Franklin, Sr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: “By converting carbon emissions into valuable and marketable products, we can help address a changing climate and boost Wyoming's economy at the same time."
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Owner of Michigan Payroll Tax Services Firm Charged With Employment Tax Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Two U.S. Citizens, One Pakistani National Charged with Moving U.S. Currency to Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Thomas Hill (41, Hillsborough County) to 19 years in federal prison for enticement of minor and production of child pornography. Hill had pleaded guilty on January 7, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Travis Charles White, of Kerens, West Virginia, was indicted on charges related to taking stolen items across state lines, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai urging him to give tribes more time to apply for broadband licenses in the 2.5 GHz Band.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories, the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), are working with the University of Kentucky and the Pennsylvania State University to further the research and development of coal-derived carbon fibers.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
Release: Work will Harness Novel Algorithms to Advance Fusion
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael F. Hanley, 49, of Clearwater, Florida, pleaded guilty, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer, to threatening a federal employee. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and $100,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Former Chattanooga Police Officer Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Sexual Assault.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Washington - The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing nearly $3 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in Missouri. This investment is part of the $100 million in grant funding made available for the ReConnect Pilot Program through the CARES Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to three years’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release on his conviction of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Salt Lake County, Utah, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
