News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Adam Raymond Mason, 29, of Bristow, was charged today by criminal complaint with first degree murder in Indian Country following the death of his daughter, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores. A federal criminal complaint is merely an accusation. A defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the members of the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee (NQIAC), which will counsel the Administration on ways to ensure continued American leadership in quantum information science (QIS).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Aug. 11, 2020, Todd Houghtlin, age 50, of Duryea, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for illegal possession of a firearm and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Two brothers from the Dominican Republic who lived in Lawrence were indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston on fentanyl distribution charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment late yesterday charging two citizens of Iran and two citizens of Indonesia with 19 counts related to exporting U.S. aircraft parts to Iran, in violation of U.S. export laws and sanctions against Iran.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: (New Smyrna Beach/Titusville) - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Canaveral National Seashore is increasing recreational access. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - Phillip Peterson, a family medicine physician in Bluefield Virginia, pleaded guilty this week in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to misbranding for a two-year pattern of prescribing Schedule II controlled substances to patients to what his office staff called “back door patients." United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen announced the guilty plea.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $1.1 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 in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dennis Port man pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of receipt and possession of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: CARLSBAD, New Mexico- The Bureau of Land Management is asking for public comments on a proposed conveyor system project, which would reduce truck traffic on public roadways and employ 715 employees locally through the 18-month construction period and approximately 36 employees locally through the 28.5-year operational period.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Two relatives of Yaser Said - a capital murder suspect arrested Wednesday - have been charged with helping Mr. Said evade capture for more than 12 years, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Christopher Tomlinson, 32, has been sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings woman who admitted heading a large methamphetamine distribution ring after investigators seized six pounds of the drug at her home and another location was sentenced today to eight years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Aug. 27, 2020, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against four Puerto Rico Police officers charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, conspiracy to steal and convert government property, and theft and conversion of government property, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The FBI was in charge of the investigation of the case.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 10 Texas counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Childress, Crane, Ector, Hardeman, Martin, Midland, Pecos, Reagan, Upton and Winkler counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Corrected Version. United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a settlement with Ward Transformer Company (Ward Transformer) requiring the company to pay $2,135,000 to the United States for hazardous substance cleanup costs at the Ward...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - An ongoing federal criminal investigation into the failure of a Chicago bank has resulted in charges against four new defendants, all of whom worked for the bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of VLADIMIR VALENTINOVICH CHEVTAYEV, 44, to 26 months in prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering. CHEVTAYEV, who was sentenced on Aug. 25, 2020, pleaded guilty on Jan. 25, 2019, to one count of conspiracy to commit...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - An American man was indicted yesterday in connection with exploiting teenage boys in Laos.
