News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Mario Alberto Rivas (50, Frostproof) to 10 years in federal prison for conspiring with others to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: FORT MYERS, Fla. - An illegally present Mexican national was sentenced Monday to 30 months in federal prison for illegal reentry into the United States after deportation. This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Operation LeGend. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man has been charged in federal court with illegally possessing a firearm after he used it to threaten a restaurant employee. Edward Latimore, 46, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Mo., on...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The co-owner of a commercial cleaning company in Bergen County, New Jersey, today admitted evading more than $300,000 in tax payments by cashing checks at a commercial check cashier, paying employees off-the-books cash wages, and failing to report all his income, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $6 million grant to the city of Lexington, Missouri, to make critical water infrastructure improvements needed to protect businesses from future severe weather events. The EDA grant, to be located near a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Opportunity Zone, will be matched with $4.3 million in local funds and is expected to retain 80 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced today that JESUS WILFREDO ENCARNACION, a/k/a “Jihadistsoldgier," “Jihadinhear," “Jihadinheart," “Lionofthegood," was sentenced to...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today voiced concern that Facebook’s new Oversight Board does not have the power it needs to change...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $2.4 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to six EDA Economic Development District organizations across Florida to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced Jeremy McQuage, 41, of Morven, N.C. to 160 months in prison on child pornography charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Morven was also ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release, and to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Ohio Man Charged with Child Sexual Abuse and Child Pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Two EM contractors recently earned national recognition for being leaders in safety.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar addressing concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the ongoing substance use disorder (SUD) and overdose crisis in the United States, which the country...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Keith Lessard, 40, of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging that he mailed threatening communications to a Kanawha County Circuit Judge. According to the criminal complaint, Lessard engaged...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Bruce Edward Johnson, 27, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 36 months in prison. Johnson was involved in a conspiracy to distribute more than 400 grams of fentanyl centered in the Clinton-Peabody housing complex on the near south side of the City of St. Louis.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Patrick Shaknitz, 29, of Croydon, PA, has been arrested and charged by Complaint with one count each of distribution and attempted distribution of child pornography. These charges arise out of the defendant’s alleged distribution of images and videos of child pornography to others, including undercover federal agents, over the Internet.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 11, 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) wrote to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D. today requesting a briefing on the concerning impacts of COVID-19 on the nation’s children and young people.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar addressing concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the ongoing substance use disorder (SUD) and overdose crisis in the United States, which the country has been battling...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, the National Park Service exclusive-use contract helicopter was activated from North Cascades National Park. (Mount Rainier, North Cascades, and Olympic national parks share the dedicated short-haul rescue helicopter on contract for the summer season.).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, Missouri - United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig sentenced Gayron Sloan, 39, of St. Louis, to 137 months in prison for possessing with the intent to distribute fentanyl and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 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) wrote to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D. today requesting a briefing on the concerning impacts of COVID-19 on the nation’s children and young people.
