News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Armstrong County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 37 months’ imprisonment, three years’ supervised release, and fined $3,000.00 on his conviction of conspiring to distribute marijuana, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Vice-Chair Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), sent a letter to President Trump and U.S. Department of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt challenging the legality, use of taxpayer money, and political goals of Trump’s Executive Order on Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes that was issued at his Mt. Rushmore campaign style rally on July 3, 2020.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The four bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee wrote to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simons today urging them to work with their...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing to examine federal and industry efforts to improve the cybersecurity of the energy sector, including efforts to improve collaboration on various cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection initiatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Jeremy Trapp with sabotaging a New York City Police Department (“NYPD") van by cutting one of the vehicle’s brake lines. Trapp was arrested earlier today at his home in Brooklyn, and was ordered detained pending trial by United States Magistrate Judge Steven M. Gold this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal grand jury returned indictments today charging SILVANO DOMINGUEZ-TORRES, age 31, of Mexico, with illegal reentry of an alien deported subsequent to 3 or more convictions involving crimes against a person and MARVIN DAVID CORTEZ-CUELLAR, age 30, of Honduras, with illegal alien in possession of a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah), Ranking Republican Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and 22 House Republicans sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Senate...
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Dear Mr. Boehler: Pursuant to its legislative and oversight authority under House Rule X, 116th Congress, the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, in coordination with the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, is investigating...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - KIWANIS YOMONE ROBERTS, 23, of Oklahoma City, has been charged and arrested for robbing the Focus Federal Credit Union (FFCU), announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Park rangers recovered a body of a deceased person from an off-trail drainage near Paradise on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. The body is believed to be that of Talal Sabbagh, a hiker who went missing in late June. The Pierce County Medical Examiner's office will finalize identification. The National Park Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today returned a superseding indictment charging Edward Buck with four additional felonies, including that he allegedly enticed victims - including a man who died at his West Hollywood apartment after he administered drugs to him - to travel interstate to engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 34-year-old resident of Houston is in custody for charges relating to sexual exploitation of a child, otherwise known as producing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tracey Wynn, 38, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $10,000,000 fine.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: On July 29, Oregon Governor Kate Brown finally agreed to do what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has demanded for months: step up and work with federal authorities to stop the nightly criminal violence directed at the Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland. Such cooperation between federal ...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security remains vigilant against the COVID-19 virus and continues to lead the national response to minimize the impact of COVID-19 on American citizens and workers. As the nation transitions to a phased approach of reopening the economy the Department and its components remain steadfast in their commitment to ensure a safe, secure, and prosperous Homeland for the American people.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Three executives from Imperial Pacific International (IPI) and MCC International Saipan have been indicted on federal criminal charges, including Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) conspiracy, harboring illegal aliens, unlawful employment of aliens, and international promotional ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Today, Attorney General William P. Barr and Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump announced that the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), a component of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP), has awarded $35,104,338 in grant funding to provide safe, stable housing and appropriate services to victims of human trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: A Houston, Texas man has been taken into custody on allegations he fraudulently obtained more than $1.6 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: A Virginia man who used an online chat website to engage in sexually explicit conversations with a 12-year-old minor female and later induced the victim to engage in sexually explicit behavior over video chat, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in the Western District of Virginia to a pair of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: A dual U.S.-Costa Rican citizen and a Costa Rican citizen, both of whom reside in Costa Rica, were indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia for their illegal sales of opioids on the darknet.
