News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - A Red Fox, Kentucky man, Michael Slone, 43, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison on Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge Robert Wier, after previously admitting to conspiring with others to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Olympic National Park has had a total of 39 Search and Rescue (SAR) incidents in 2020 so far, with 22 in the month of July. In 2019, the park had a total of 84 SAR incidents with 17 in the month of July.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The Department of Justice announced today that it has filed a lawsuit alleging that the owner of rental properties in Elizabeth, New Jersey, violated the Fair Housing Act by subjecting tenants to sexual harassment, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Amidst surging cases of coronavirus across the country, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) called on Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma to improve the reliability of data collected from long-term care (LTC) facilities to protect residents...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Michael Briand, 29, of Bow, pleaded guilty in federal court to fentanyl trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced DeShawn Torrell Salley (40, Tampa) to 15 years in federal prison for distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that an additional distribution of $ 22,394,690.03 has been issued to victim investors of the THOMAS PETTERS fraud scheme. These funds, forfeited to the United States through criminal and civil forfeiture proceedings prosecuted in the District of Minnesota, will be sent to approximately 364 victims worldwide.
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
Release: This is the second annual report under Section 4 of the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-330), enacted December 19, 2018, which requires the Department of State to provide a report to Congress, within 90 days of enactment and annually thereafter for five years, regarding the level of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Creston man pleaded guilty Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to charges of transportation of child pornography via the internet and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Stefan Tucker, 33, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to 200 months (over 16 years) in prison by United States District Judge Gerald J. Pappert for his involvement in an almost around-the-clock drug delivery service for several years...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The Department of Justice today announced a proposed consent decree with the Hampton Roads Regional Jail Authority resolving the United States’ investigation into allegedly unlawful conditions at the Hampton Roads Regional Jail (Jail) in Portsmouth as outlined in the government’s December 2018 Notice.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: For two weeks this July, we crisscrossed our state, carrying forward a tradition started by Senator Grassley 40 years ago to meet with Iowans in every county, every year. On this road trip, we each reached Iowans in 29 counties. Like Iowa students who are eager to return to their classrooms and campuses in August, we sure were grateful to meet directly with our constituents.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man was sentenced today for sending a series of violent and threatening e‑mails to a Massachusetts professor and a university.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Cambridge man pleaded guilty today to firearms trafficking charges related to six separate sales.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Malikai Willis, 24, of Hamilton, Ohio, with sexually trafficking and exploiting a child in an indictment returned here.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced DeShawn Torrell Salley (40, Tampa) to 15 years in federal prison for distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on July 16, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entered into a stipulation agreement with Hill City Commission, LLC (Hill City), for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. Under the terms of the stipulation agreement, Hill City waived its right to a hearing and paid a penalty of $1,250.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Federal District Court Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel today sentenced defendant Michael Steen to 148 months in prison for supplying the fentanyl that led to a 33-year-old Ramona woman’s fatal overdose on July 9, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The company that produces “Crystal Geyser Natural Alpine Spring Water" was sentenced today to three years of probation and ordered to pay criminal fines totaling $5 million for illegally storing and transporting hazardous waste created from filtering arsenic out of spring water at its facility in Olancha, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Court Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced Jesse Sloane, age 59, of Denham Springs, Louisiana, to serve 68 months in federal prison following his conviction for receipt of child pornography. Sloane will also be required to serve five years of supervised release and register as a convicted sex offender upon his release from prison.
