News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on August 6, 2020, U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman sentenced Ronald J. Payne (age: 34) to six years’ imprisonment and two years’ supervised release after Payne pled guilty to Possessing a Firearm during and in relation to Drug Trafficking, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 48-year-old Denison, Texas man has been arrested for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to the July jobs report...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - A Saltville, Virginia man, who lied about his own death in order to hide assets from the federal bankruptcy court and later fraudulently assumed the identity of an attorney from Florida to further the scheme, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to 108 months in federal prison, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Investigators Seeking Help From The Public.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A St. Simons Island, Ga., man has been indicted in U.S. District Court on federal charges for allegedly threatening to blow up an IRS office in New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - The former controller of a Chicago insurance company has been arrested on a federal fraud charge for allegedly stealing $5 million in company funds.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today introduced legislation to guarantee an affordable price for any COVID-19 vaccine whose development is funded by the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - On February 7, 2020, Arkiest Young, 38, pleaded guilty to attempted Hobbs Act business robbery. Young has now been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for his role in the violent crime. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: CRATER LAKE, OREGON - On the afternoon of Friday, August 7th, park staff received a report of multiple visitors in the caldera somewhere between Rim Village and Discovery Point. Law enforcement staff responded quickly to attempt to locate them.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a criminal complaint charging DESHAWN TYRONE BRAZIEL, 35, with one count of possession of a firearm by a felon. A preliminary and detention hearing on this charge is scheduled for Aug. 10, before Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Cowan Wright, in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretaries Azar and Esper: As the Ranking Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, we write to express our concerns about plans for the Department of Defense (DOD) to lead the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, despite decades...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - Federal prosecutors have charged one Florida man and two Massachusetts men for their alleged participation in a fraud and money laundering-ring established in 2019 to carry out business email compromise-schemes and that defendants used, most recently, to steal close to $2 million from Covid-19 relief programs.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A man from Denison, Texas, was arrested Thursday for child pornography violations, following an investigation by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Gay Vietzke has named Patrick Kenney as the new superintendent of Shenandoah National Park and of Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Nine defendants have been indicted by a U.S. District Court grand jury on federal charges including illegal possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Juan M. Hernandez, age 40, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty following his plea of guilty to possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Brooks Thomas Nesbitt (37, Ontario, Canada) to 10 years and 1 month in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The court also ordered Nesbitt to forfeit various assets, and entered a money judgment of $500,000, representing the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct. In addition, Nesbitt was ordered to pay $14,511,754.05 in restitution to the victims.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, House Agriculture Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture and Research Chair Stacey E. Plaskett, and the Democratic Members of the Subcommittee expressed concern about the inadequacies of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) in providing critical support to the specialty crop industry.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
Release: USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has expanded the list of locations where the public can send unsolicited seed packets. We have also added options for submitting reports online to APHIS or the state departments of agriculture.APHIS urges anyone who receives an unsolicited package ...
