News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Puerto Rico Legislator Indicted for Theft, Bribery, and Fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) today announced plans to investigate the impacts the U.S. Postal Service’s organizational and operational changes are having on the safe and timely delivery of prescription drugs, particularly in the midst of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court to 87 months of imprisonment and six years of supervised release on his convictions of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, possession with the intent to distribute heroin, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Raleigh Man Sentenced for Human Trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A Wilmington man was sentenced to 67 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a felon in connection with a July 31, 2019 incident.
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 EPA Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) today announced plans to investigate the impacts the U.S. Postal Service’s organizational and operational changes are having on the safe and timely delivery of prescription drugs, particularly in the midst of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A former Shelby County Deputy Jailer, William Anthony Carey, 31, was sentenced Monday, to 48 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Gregory F. VanTatenhove, for violating the civil rights of an inmate in his custody.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Those working or recreating along the Green River below Utah’s Flaming Gorge Dam and the Colorado River below Arizona’s Glen Canyon Dam should exercise increased caution as fluctuations in hydropower generation may cause rapid changes in water releases. The Bureau of Reclamation is responding...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, Calif. - On July 15, 2020, Hang “Henry" Chen, an employee of CBK, CBK International, and Silicon Electronics, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James Donato to four months incarceration with three-years supervised release, a $75,000 fine, and restitution up to $137,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland has indicted four individuals in the Cleveland area on charges of felon in possession of a firearm. These are separate cases and are not related.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Capture and translocation operations are now complete with an additional 50 mountain goats moved in this final round from Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest to the northern Cascade Mountains. Since September 2018, a total of 325 mountain goats have been translocated.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - Eduardo Aguilar-Arellano, 35, of Mexico, illegally present in the United States and residing in Johnston County, North Carolina, was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison. On Feb. 11, 2020, Aguilar-Arellano pled guilty to one count of illegal reentry of an aggravated felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court to 87 months of imprisonment and six years of supervised release on his convictions of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, possession with the intent to distribute heroin, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced today to 46 months in federal prison for devising an identity theft scheme that caused a loss of more than $47,000, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
Release: Awards to Sustain Facilities’ Leadership in Advancing Data for Science
By State Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today rejected Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s defiance of the Committee’s subpoena for records dealing with Pompeo’s misuse of State Department resources to aid a Senate Republican-led political smear of former...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2020
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board will meet virtually September 23-24, 2020. The Board will discuss the management of wild horses and burros on public lands, including the challenges of safely reducing wide-spread overpopulation and measures for increasing the placement of wild horses and burros into good homes through adoptions and sales.
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: 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.
