News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: For Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Four Oaks man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for unlawfully possessing ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, businessman today admitted filing false tax returns that failed to report all of his business income, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service is accepting applications for qualified volunteers to help cull non-native mountain goats as part of Grand Teton National Park’s management plan aimed to conserve a native and vulnerable population of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in the Teton Range.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio today, Senior U.S. District Court Judge David A. Ezra granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) filed by federal authorities against Living Health Holistic Healing Center d/b/a Living Health New Braunfels (Living Health) and it’s owner, Leslie Tatum, to combat alleged fraudulent advertising...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: MIAMI - Michael Anthony Roundtree Jr., 37, and Daren Bernard Razz III, 40 both of Riviera Beach, Florida, have been arrested and charged with robbery affecting interstate or foreign commerce. It is alleged that, from August 2019 through August 2020, they committed or attempted twelve armed robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, August 4, 2020, Johnathan Earl Chappell, a 31-year-old from Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to 70 months in prison after pleading guilty to a federal firearms charge, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Chappell was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release after he completes his prison sentence. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - The Justice Department announced that Douglas Matthew Gurkins, 34, pleaded guilty today in federal court in the Eastern District of North Carolina to one count of criminal interference with the Fair Housing Act, for using threats of force against an African American family because of the family members’ race and because they were renting a dwelling.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Wheeling man and a Morgantown man were both indicted today by a federal grand jury on firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y), Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Congresswoman Katie Porter (D-Calif.) sent letters to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 32-year-old Texarkana, Texas, man has pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Company President and Employee Arrested in Alleged Scheme to Violate the Export Control Reform Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging five Bridgeport men with multiple offenses stemming from their alleged involvement in an afternoon shooting in front of a state courthouse in Bridgeport in January.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Today Rep. James E. Clyburn, Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Rep. Richard E. Neal, Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, Rep. Maxine Waters, Chairwoman of the Committee on Financial Services, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Former Venezuelan Official Charged in Connection with International Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two New Jersey men have been charged with attempting to set fire to a marked police vehicle following the May 2020 protests in Trenton, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former member of the Boston-based Morton Street Bricks Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty yesterday to racketeering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Residents of multiple states were arrested today after being charged in a 50-count indictment involving a drug conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined David Westin on Bloomberg TV to discuss ongoing coronavirus relief negotiations and the congressional Democrats playing politics instead of working on an agreement.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement after the Trump Administration finally announced it has indicted employers and plant managers one year after the August 7, 2019 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.
