News from August 2020
By USDA Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
Release: As part of its ongoing efforts to implement the new Sustainable, Ecological, Consistent, Uniform, Responsible, Efficient (SECURE) biotechnology regulations, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is making available guidance and hosting webinars ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Enville, Tennessee man, Lane Christopher Mikaloff, 52, pleaded guilty in federal court Friday, before U.S. District Judge David Bunning, to possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Daniel Musso, age 56, of Brentwood, was found guilty on Friday of four counts of receiving and possessing unregistered firearms (fragmentation grenades) and one count of receiving explosive material after a week-long federal jury trial, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Requested sexually explicit pictures from 12-year old victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: José Jonathan Guevara-Castro, also known as “Suspechoso" (“Guevara-Castro"), an alleged member of the violent transnational criminal organization La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the “MS-13," and a fugitive from justice, was arrested on Aug. 13, 2020 in Acajutla, Sonsonate, El Salvador.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Dear Director Wray: I am writing because I am deeply concerned that by violating its own policies the FBI is again succumbing to political pressure from Republicans to damage the Democratic presidential candidate. On Friday, August 7, the Federal Bureau of Investigation transmitted a letter addressed...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Daniel Musso, age 56, of Brentwood, was found guilty on Friday of four counts of receiving and possessing unregistered firearms (fragmentation grenades) and one count of receiving explosive material after a week-long federal jury trial, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: ATHENS, Ga. - The former human resources director for Oconee County, Georgia has admitted to stealing taxpayer money in a complicated paycheck scheme, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Former CIA Officer Arrested and Charged with Espionage.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that two felons have been sentenced in United States District Court for illegal possession of firearms.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released the following statement on the Record of Decision signed by Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt approving the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program in the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Richard S. Dean, 44, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, 500 grams of methamphetamine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life in prison, and a fine of $10,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of DYLAN MATTHEW DELING, a/k/a “Jason Keens," a/k/a “Dylan Nash," 21, to 420 months in prison for producing child pornography and extortion. DELING, who pleaded guilty on July 18, 2019, was sentenced today before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, top Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and the House Committee on the Judiciary sent letters launching a probe into the District of Columbia’s unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination and censorship and called on the District to uniformly respect the First Amendment rights of all citizens.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: 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 a relative of his who also was a 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 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 Northwest Regional Development Commission, Warren, Minnesota, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX - As part of the Trump Administration’s effort to increase recreational and sporting opportunities on public lands, the Bureau of Land Management Phoenix District Office is proposing supplementary rules governing developed recreation areas and sites within the district, including those associated...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a 13-count indictment against legislator María Milagros Charbonier-Laureano (Charbonier), aka “Tata," a member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, as well as her husband Orlando Montes-Rivera (Montes), their son Orlando Gabriel Montes-Charbonier, and her assistant Frances Acevedo-Ceballos (Acevedo), for their alleged participation in a years-long theft, bribery, and kickback conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Washington Field Division today announced the establishment of its Newport News Satellite Office, giving ATF a permanent presence on the Hampton Roads Peninsula.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Michael J. Grogan, 67, of Lakeside Park, Kentucky, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday, for 257 counts of illegal distribution of controlled substances.
