News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA: A former correctional officer has been sentenced to federal prison for accepting bribes in return for smuggling contraband to an inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - Eleven members and associates of the Lowriders, a Davenport- based street gang, have been charged in federal court in Davenport for various crimes, including violent crimes in aid of racketeering, drug trafficking, tampering with witnesses, the knowing transfer of a handgun to a juvenile...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Washington - The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $371 million to build and improve critical electric infrastructure (PDF, 116 KB) that will benefit more than 222,000 rural residents and commercial customers in 11 states.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, NY-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Diones Bowens, 24, of Ashtabula, Ohio, who was convicted of conspiracy to transfer firearms purchased outside of state of residency, was sentenced to serve two years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SIMON HESSLER, 48, formerly of Ellington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 347 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for child exploitation offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Three former residents of the Pittsburgh area have been sentenced in federal court this week on their convictions of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A previously convicted felon was sentenced yesterday to over four years in prison for his involvement in a gang-related shootout at a recording studio in Alexandria in July 2019.
By State Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announced today the capture of Sandra Gayton who was wanted by the Jackson Police Department for a Homicide which occurred August 7, 2020. During that incident officers with the Jackson Police Department responded to a report of a stabbing near the area of McMillan...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Four residents of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and one resident of Cypress, California, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA: An admitted methamphetamine trafficker and criminal street gang member has been sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $824,112 grant to the town of Cheraw, South Carolina, to make water infrastructure improvements needed to protect businesses from future floods and natural disasters. The EDA grant project, to be located near a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Opportunity Zone, will be matched with $206,028 in local investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A New York man will spend the next six and half years in federal prison for an October 2019 bank robbery.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Lau Enterprise II Inc. satisfied a reparation order in the amount of $7,132 issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving unpaid produce transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Nevada woman was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday with fraudulently seeking over $1 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after EPA finalized its rule rolling back the methane standards for the oil and gas industry under the Clean Air Act's New Source Performance ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Alexander Carnahan, 27, of Randolph, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with production of child pornography. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to Department of Labor guidance on the unemployment benefits executive action...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today condemning the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule to gut methane pollution standards...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK -Tyler C. King, age 31, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for computer fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with his hacking of a New York-based technology company.
