News from August 2020
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: NORMAN, Okla. - The Bureau of Land Management will hold a wild horse and burro event in Idabel, Okla., Aug. 28-29 at the Idabel Rodeo Arena. The two-day event, featuring 140 wild horses and burros, will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 28. Five saddle-trained wild horses will also be available for adoption.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary Scalia: We write in strong opposition to the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule entitled “Conflict of Interest Rule - Retirement Investment Advice: Notice of Court Vacatur" (RIN 1210-AB96) and its proposed rule entitled “Improving Investment Advice for Workers & Retirees" (ZRIN 1210-ZA29).
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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Curtis Green, 39, Onalaska, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 57 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a felon, and an additional 12 months for revocation of his federal supervised release. This prison term will be followed by two years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A Georgia man who operated an industrial-scale illegal pill-manufacturing operation has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, representing the final sentence among the major members of the drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: On Aug. 10, 2020, at 2:00 p.m., Jeremy Kozak will be sentenced following his conviction for attempted enticement of a minor. Kozak, age 39, attempted to entice his victim, a 13 year-old girl, to engage in sexual activity. Kozak communicated with the victim online. Law enforcement took control of the...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee members Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-MT), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Rep. Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ), and Rep. Raul Ruiz, M.D. (D-CA) released...
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: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that Ronald Wilson, age 47, of Vickery, was sentenced by Judge Jack Zouhary to 90 months imprisonment and ordered to pay $3,977,919.39 in restitution with co-defendant Sherri Wilson after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, three counts of wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, and embezzlement of government property on Feb. 11, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that William Tye Grisel, 40, former IT manager of South Carolina-based company Big Red Box, a national dumpster brokerage firm, was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison after pleading guilty to embezzling over $1 million from the company from 2014 to 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A U.S. Postal employee was indicted yesterday in connection with stealing mail believed to contain controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - The mayor of Crestwood has been indicted by a federal grand jury for using an interstate facility in aid of bribery, and lying to federal law enforcement about his request and receipt of benefits from a representative of a red-light camera company that provided services to the southwest suburb.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Joshua Brogdon, 33, has been sentenced to 64 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee members Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-MT), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Rep. Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ), and Rep. Raul Ruiz, M.D. (D-CA) released...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - The mayor of Crestwood has been indicted by a federal grand jury for using an interstate facility in aid of bribery, and lying to federal law enforcement about his request and receipt of benefits from a representative of a red-light camera company that provided services to the southwest suburb.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee members Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-MT), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Rep. Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ), and Rep. Raul Ruiz, M.D. (D-CA) released...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. August 7, 2020 - Temporary weekday closures of Big Stump Picnic Area in the Grant Grove area of Kings Canyon National Park will begin Monday, August 10 in connection with a trail improvement project. This project will modify the existing Big Stump Trail...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Defendant previously convicted twice in state court for failing to register as sex offender.
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 Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $8.8 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Ohio.
