News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A South Texas woman admitted guilt in federal court Tuesday to possessing with intent to distribute more than five pounds of cocaine.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, in remarks on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), pressed Senate Republicans to end their months-long delay and work with Democrats on legislation that offers meaningful relief for students, families and workers.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Washington - On Aug. 5, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will publish in the Federal Register a new proposed rule to expand the National Organic Program’s (NOP) oversight and enforcement of the production, handling and sale of organic products.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - August 4, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: For Wire Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Enticement, Child Pornography Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Wakpala, South Dakota, woman convicted of two counts of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on July 27, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
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 $4.2 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 Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS -JESUS ADRIAN LEDESMA BERNAL, a/k/a JSS, age 32, a resident and citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to 18 months in the Bureau of Prisons after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud by U.S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo of the Eastern District of Louisiana, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment last week charging a Birmingham man with fraud on customers of the U.S. Postal Service, and fraud on the memorial fund set up to provide aid to the family of a fallen Huntsville Police officer, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, U.S. Postal Inspector In Charge, Houston Division, Adrian Gonzalez, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Three Mexican men and one U.S. citizen have entered guilty pleas for their part in a conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to deliver a large amount of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 12 years' imprisonment and five years of supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws and money laundering conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
Release: USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) recently updated the and the to amend the import policy for seeds for sprouting intended for human consumption. When imported for the purpose of consumption and not propagation, seed for sprouting will no longer require a phytosanitary certificate ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced on Aug. 3, 2020 that Rickey Austin of Milwaukee, after having served approximately 18 months since his arrest, was sentenced by the Honorable Judge Lynn Adelman to an additional 246 months’ imprisonment for armed robberies and unlawful possession of firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - Wildland Firefighters from the BLM Rock Springs Field Office, BLM Utah, Sweetwater County along with available air resources responded to a fire at approximately 2 p.m. on Aug. 3, 2020. The Richards Fire is located approximately 40 miles south of Rock Springs, Wyoming along Clay Basin Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Texas Entrepreneur Charged with Spending COVID Relief Funds on Improper Expenses Including Lamborghini and Strip Club.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on July 31, 2020, Danny Cruz, age 42 of Harrisburg, PA, Aida Rosado, age 60 of Harrisburg, and Lizarah Matthews, age 28 of York, PA, were indicted for their role in smuggling cellular telephones...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on July 31, 2020, Danny Cruz, age 42 of Harrisburg, PA, Aida Rosado, age 60 of Harrisburg, and Lizarah Matthews, age 28 of York, PA, were indicted for their role in smuggling cellular telephones...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on July 31, 2020, Kyle Bower, age 31, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was charged with smuggling contraband into Dauphin County Prison.
