News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Chamberlain, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Tampering With a Witness and Conspiracy to Tamper With a Witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of CHARLES ANTONIO GAYLES, 38, to 180 months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm. GAYLES, who pleaded guilty on Nov. 20, 2019, was sentenced earlier today before Senior Judge Michael J. Davis in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement on the bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act, now law, which permanently funds the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and provides funding to address deferred maintenance on federal lands, including national wildlife refuges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur of the District of Maryland today announced that Maryland has received $999,990 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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich of the District of Nevada announced today that the state of Nevada received a total of $998,714 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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to attempting to purchase a chemical weapon, capable of killing hundreds of people, on the dark web with Bitcoin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: “The deliberate actions of our local and federal law enforcement partners have immediately made Indianapolis a safer place to live, work and raise a family.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of CHARLES ANTONIO GAYLES, 38, to 180 months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm. GAYLES, who pleaded guilty on Nov. 20, 2019, was sentenced earlier today before Senior Judge Michael J. Davis in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Chamberlain, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Tampering With a Witness and Conspiracy to Tamper With a Witness.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, yesterday spoke on the Senate floor in support of the nomination of Mark Menezes to be Deputy Secretary of the Department of Energy. Murkowski spoke just before the Senate began a roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on Menezes’ nomination. That vote was successful - 78 to 14 - and a vote on final passage is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. EDT this morning.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: NOAA-supported scientists have determined this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone "- an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life - is approximately 2,116 square miles, or equivalent to 1.4 million acres of habitat potentially unavailable to fish and bottom species.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that the Jordan Community Resource Center in Cleveland Heights has been awarded $497,661 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 in Northern Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, as well as Committee Member and Co-Chair of the Whistleblower Protection Caucus Rep. Jackie Speier introduced the Whistleblower Protection Improvement Act to strengthen whistleblower protections for federal employees.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement following the Senate confirmation of Mark W. Menezes as Deputy Secretary of Energy at the Department of Energy (DOE).
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: Springfield, Ill. - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment that charges Richard G. Simms, 73, currently of Marietta, Ohio, with defrauding Kankakee’s wastewater utilities, Kankakee River Metropolitan Agency (KRMA) and the city’s Environmental Service Utility (ESU), of more than $2 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Four more people have been arrested in Florida and Pennsylvania in connection with an access device fraud and money laundering scheme, for stealing credit and debit card numbers of gas station customers across the country, including in Albany, Broome and Montgomery Counties in the Northern District of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that an individual received a 15-month sentence following a conviction for illegal firearm possession on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The man, Ryan M. Hill (age: 26), formerly lived in Neopit, which is a community on the Menominee Indian Reservation.
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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - Ledra A. Craig, age 43, of Wright City, Missouri, was charged by a federal complaint today with distribution of fentanyl.
