News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Gulf Coast Center for Nonviolence Receives $379,996.00 from Department of Justice.
By State Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a full committee hearing on Venezuela’s deteriorating security and humanitarian situation, with witness testimony from Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams and U.S. Agency for International Development Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean Joshua Hodges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Vontez Scales, 29, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to 320 months in prison, ten years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $4,000 fine by United States District Judge Mark A. Kearney for his leadership role in a large scale drug trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, New Jersey, pharmacist today admitted participating in a conspiracy to pay bribes and kickbacks for compounded pain creams, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - United States Attorney Michael Bailey of the District of Arizona today announced that the state of Arizona received over $1.2 million from the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs and its component, the Office for Victims of Crime, to provide safe, stable housing and appropriate services to victims of human trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $6.5 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 Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Fire Set During May 30th Protest.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that RONALD EUGENE MOSLEY, age 46, was charged on July 31, 2020 in a one-count bill of information with bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 2113(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 21-year-old Mexican national has admitted to possessing with the intent to distribute more than five pounds of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a criminal complaint charging DERRICK LEE SPILLMAN, 39, with four counts of Hobbs Act robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. SPILLMAN will make his initial appearance today before Magistrate Judge Jon T. Huseby in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Justin Herdman and Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery Brian D. Miller announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Office of the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery (SIGPR).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: More than 200 law enforcement officers died by suicide in 2019. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline may be reached at 1-800-273-8255 and provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress. We are HERE for law enforcement, HELP is a phone call away, and above all there is always HOPE.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court to 37 months in prison and three years of supervised release, on his conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for downloading and distributing hundreds of images and videos of child pornography over the internet.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: An updated agenda is now available for the 2020 National Cleanup Workshop, which will take place as a virtual half-day event on Sept. 16, 2020. The workshop will feature remarks from Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar and senior DOE officials, state and local government officials, and industry leaders. They will discuss key issues facing the DOE complex in the year ahead and celebrate important progress made this year.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: In efforts to automatically capture important data from scientific papers, computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method to accurately detect small, geometric objects such as triangles within dense, low-quality plots contained in image data. Employing a neural network approach designed to detect patterns, the NIST model has many possible applications in modern life.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommitee on the Constitution on Tuesday, Aug. 4. You can watch the full hearing -- entitled "The Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble: Protecting Free Speech by Stopping Anarchist Violence" -- here.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA - A Plains man accused of making and transporting child pornography videos pleaded guilty to charges today, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEAN CARLOS FABAL-GONZALEZ, 26, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall to 40 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: The Franklin County Public Library has unveiled a collection of books about the life and times of Booker T. Washington, the pioneering educator and orator who hailed from Franklin County. Containing more than 385 books, the collection was donated by the Booker T. Washington National Monument (BTWNM) of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
