News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, NY - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. is thanking President Trump for pardoning Susan B. Anthony today, on the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to 12 years in federal prison, to be followed by 15 years of court-supervised release, on child pornography charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) released a request for information to identify potential vendors, manufacturers and distributors with technologies for non-invasive febrile temperature screening to meet the needs of first responders...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Two men have been indicted on federal sex trafficking charges for allegedly recruiting three victims, including a child, to engage in commercial sex acts by means of force, threats of force, fraud, and coercion.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging DEVON DWAYNE REGINALD GLOVER, 21, and MARSHAWN MICHAEL DAVISON, 19, with Hobbs Act robbery. GLOVER was also charged with firearms violations. GLOVER and DAVISON are currently in custody and will make their initial appearances in U.S. District Court at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Domestic Assault by a Habitual Offender and Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to 12 years in federal prison, to be followed by 15 years of court-supervised release, on child pornography charges.
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 $3.9 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to 10 EDA Economic Development District organizations across Montana to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., and Teva Neuroscience, Inc., the maker of Copaxone, a drug for multiple sclerosis (MS).
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today announced another extension of the flexibilities in rules related to Form I-9 compliance that was granted earlier this year. Due to the continued precautions related to COVID-19, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will further extend this policy for an additional 30 days. The expiration date for these accommodations is now Sept. 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man pleaded guilty today to armed robberies at two Topeka businesses, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site cleanup contractor has signed a mentor-protégé agreement with a firm named DOE’s Small Business of the Year for fiscal 2019.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: Dear Commissioner Hahn:. We are examining the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) efforts to provide potential treatments to patients suffering from COVID-19. Specifically, we write to request information regarding the FDA’s decision to issue and then subsequently revoke the Emergency Use Authorization...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Aug. 17, 2020 - A Nashville man convicted last fall of the robberies and shooting at the Rite-Aid Pharmacy on West End Avenue was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court to 355 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: The unpaved section of the Moose-Wilson Road in Grand Teton National Park will be temporarily closed for seasonal dust abatement beginning 4 a.m. Tuesday, August 25 and will reopen by 8 a.m. Thursday, August 27. In addition to dust abatement, the northern section of the Moose-Wilson Road will be closed on Wednesday, August 26 from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. while crews repair road surface failure south of Sawmill Pond.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today alleging that PRTaylor Enterprises LLC, a company doing business as Father & Son Moving & Storage, violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) by failing to obtain a court order before auctioning off the entire contents of a U.S. Air Force Technical Sergeant’s storage units while he was deployed overseas.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: DICKINSON, North Dakota - The Bureau of Land Management and the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement are accepting public comments on a coal lease application from the Falkirk Mining Company in McLean County during a 30-day scoping comment period ending Sept. 17, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A Wilmington man, Tysuan Nash, 31 was sentenced today to 80 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine and a quantity of heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - James Timothy Norman, 41, of Jackson, Mississippi, was charged by a federal complaint on Aug. 11, 2020. He was arrested this morning in Jackson, Mississippi. Norman was charged with conspiracy to use interstate commerce facilities in the commission of a murder-for-hire, resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams released the following statement today regarding the recent assault of a motorist in Downtown Portland and continued violence citywide.
