News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: Bismarck - United States Attorney Drew H. Wrigley announced that on Aug. 18, 2020, Louis Floden, Jr., age 69 from Pella, Iowa, appeared before United States Magistrate Judge Alice R. Senechal and pleaded guilty to a charge of Unlawful Transport of Wildlife in Foreign Commerce. Judge Senechal sentenced Floden to serve one year probation, ordered him to pay a $7,500.00 fine to the Lacey Act Reward Account, and ordered that he pay the mandatory special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND- Varnell Dixon, 24, of Gary, Indiana, pled guilty to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: Aug. 18, 2020-"Nature Inspired-Natural Products and Crop Protection" is the title of Thomas C. Sparks' 2020 Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Sterling B. Hendricks Lecture, being presented virtually at the American Chemical Society Fall Meeting on August 18 at 1 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - D’Andre Garry, 23, of Hattiesburg, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 50 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for committing Hobbs Act Robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Garry was also ordered to pay a $3,250 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $4.2 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to 11 EDA Economic Development District organizations across Oklahoma to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released data from the 2018 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released the following statement on another partisan event scheduled by Committee Democrats and deliberately advertised as official committee business. The meeting - initiated with doctored Committee letterhead and supposedly unbeknownst to Chairman Grijalva - was scheduled without invitation or notice to Members of the Committee or those directly affected by the misleading event.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) criticizing EPA Administrator Andrew...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Father & Son Moving & Storage in Billerica, Massachusetts, for Unlawfully Auctioning Off Belongings of Deployed Servicemember.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: Complaint alleges that Teva funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks through co-pay foundations.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a scheme to distribute heroin and fentanyl in Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: Victim was found dead from overdose aboard ship at Naval Base Kitsap.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - D’Andre Garry, 23, of Hattiesburg, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 50 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for committing Hobbs Act Robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Garry was also ordered to pay a $3,250 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, Walter James, III, a 49-year-old from Montgomery, Alabama, and former Montgomery Public Schools employee, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., FBI Special Agent in Charge James Jewell, and Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Francisco Cruz-Pica, a/k/a “Javi," 38, of Allentown, PA was sentenced to 10 years in prison, eight years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $1,200 fine by United States District Judge Jeffrey Schmehl for trafficking drugs and illegally possessing firearms, including a machine gun.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: Redwood National Park seeks public comments on an Environmental Assessment (EA) for construction of a new hiking trail located off Hwy. 101 and Bald Hills Road. The approximate one-mile-long trail, called the Centennial Grove Trail and Berry Glen Connector Trail, will lead visitors through old-growth redwood forests and link into the California Coastal Trail, a network of trails that attempts to connect 1,200 miles of California coastline.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Timothy Stanley Wilkins, 41, of Bethlehem, PA was arrested last night in Miami, Florida. Wilkins was a fugitive from justice on federal drug trafficking and firearms offenses. After being charged, Wilkins fled the country and was apprehended by federal agents at Miami International Airport, while attempting to re-enter the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: JEROME, Ida. - Starting Labor Day Weekend (September 4, 2020), the Minidoka National Historic Site’s Visitor Center will be open for Fall hours: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 10am to 5pm. Please follow CDC COVID-19 guidance to keep you and others safe.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault With a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting In Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - With one final demolition project underway at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), an EM, DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor UCOR have begun transitioning its ETTP workforce to new cleanup projects.
