News from August 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to FEMA guidance on the unemployment benefits executive action...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that James Hardcastle, 42, of Bensalem, PA, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, 20 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $75,000 in fines by United States District Judge Gerald J. Pappert for multiple child exploitation offenses stemming from his conduct at an over-night basketball tournament in Wildwood, New Jersey and at his home in Bensalem.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Arthur Gurbey, age 48, of Green Island, New York, pled guilty on August 12 to one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) announces the availability of the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Winter and Shoulder Season Visitor Services Environmental Assessment (EA). Alternative 2, the preferred alternative, was selected. Under the selected alternative, the NPS will.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the East Central Vermont Economic Development District, Randolph, Vermont, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Aug. 14, 2020, Anthony Layton Moody, 27, of Elizabethton, was sentenced by the Honorable Clifton L. Corker, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Today the U.S. Census Bureau released a that provides partners, stakeholders and the public updates on the 2020 Census Operational Plan. The review illustrates some of the ways we are adapting our operations to ensure a complete and accurate count by our statutory deadline Dec. 31, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man trafficking fentanyl, and a Huntington woman assisting him, both pled guilty to federal charges today, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Vernon Eugene Mitchell, 30, and Tasha Lynn Adkins, 34, both pled guilty to distributing fentanyl. Mitchell also pled guilty to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: A 10-count indictment was unsealed today in the Eastern District of New York charging Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan, Jr., with the Oct. 30, 2002 murder of Jason Mizell, also known as “Jam Master Jay," a member of the famed hip hop group Run-DMC. Each defendant is charged with murder while engaged ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - U.S. Magistrate Judge Eric I. Long today cited the extreme danger to the community posed by defendant James L. Williams, 39, of Charleston, Ill., and granted the government’s request that Williams remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. Williams, of the 500 block of N. 7th...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND-Mark Toney, 41, of Schererville, Indiana, and a member of the Chicago-based Latin Kings street gang, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon to 87 months in prison and 2 years of supervised release following his guilty plea to conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Kadesha Dashanae Houston, 25, of Meridian, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan, III, to 36 months’ probation for making false statements to a federal officer during the course of a federal investigation, 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 | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Cincinnati man, Dontez Justice, 33, pleaded guilty in federal court Friday, before U.S. District Judge David Bunning, to possession with intent to distribute over five grams of methamphetamine.
By State Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Republican Leader of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Chairman of the House China Task Force, released the following statement on updated rules announced today by the Department of Commerce that will further restrict Huawei’s ability to evade U.S. export controls and undermine our national security and foreign policy interests...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 130,000 metric tons of hard red winter wheat for delivery to unknown destination during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Tucson Field Office, in partnership with The Arizona Land and Water Trust, has acquired 477 acres of land utilizing Land and Water Conservation Fund Sportsmen/Recreation Access funds. The acquisition provides and improves access to the 5,080-acre Coyote Mountains Wilderness Area, located approximately 40 miles southwest of Tucson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, was arrested on Aug. 14, 2020 on a charge that he conspired with another former CIA officer to communicate classified information up to the Top Secret level to intelligence officials of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The Criminal Complaint containing the charge was unsealed this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Jason Gerner, 46, of Shamung, New Jersey, was sentenced to 36 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Wendy Beetlestone for his role in multiple healthcare fraud schemes as...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington Allegedly Murdered Hip Hop Star Over a Drug Dispute.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced to prison the leader of a methamphetamine trafficking ring and his two co-conspirators today, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
