News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Illegally Worked Using Someone Else’s Social Security Number.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Defendant Shot At Moving Vehicle With Four Occupants Inside.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A federal grand jury today indicted an Orange County man for allegedly selling pound quantities of methamphetamine while he was on supervised release following a 2009 terrorism conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Two men have been charged in federal court with looting three pharmacies in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Watertown, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Receipt and Distribution of Child Pornography and Transportation of Child Pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $1.6 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to four EDA Economic Development District organizations across North Carolina to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is extending the deadline to Nov. 20, 2020, for the Soil Health and Income Protection Program (SHIPP), a new pilot program that enables farmers to receive payments for planting perennial cover for conservation use for three to five years. Signup...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons has announced the following plea, identified below, brought by the Guardians Project, a collaborative federal law enforcement initiative in the District of South Dakota designed to promote citizen disclosure of public corruption, fraud, and embezzlement involving federal program funds, contracts, and grants, and to hold accountable those responsible for adversely affecting those living in South Dakota’s tribal communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Springfield to distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession With Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Possession of Ammunition by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A twenty-eight-count indictment filed today in U.S. District Court charges a Birmingham man with conspiracy and other fraud charges related to his purchase, manufacture, and distribution of drug products that had never been reviewed or approved by the FDA, but that he claimed were effective cancer treatments, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and FDA Office of Criminal Investigations, Miami Field Office Special Agent in Charge Justin C. Fielder.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 400,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: The Honorable Chief Judge Rodney W. Sippel of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri sentenced Freddie Doyle, 32, to 46 months of imprisonment for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), in relation to an attempted assault on patrons of a LGBTQ-community bar in St. Louis, Missouri.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is working with its interagency and private sector partners to prepare for the landfall of Hurricane Laura and support the energy sector response efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: The Guardians Project. United States Attorney Ron Parsons has announced the following plea, identified below, brought by the Guardians Project, a collaborative federal law enforcement initiative in the District of South Dakota designed to promote citizen disclosure of public corruption, fraud, and embezzlement...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: New York, New York - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, General Grant National Memorial (NM) is increasing access to park grounds. The National Park Service (NPS) is working service wide 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 26, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jerald Ungerer, age 33, of Milford, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Aug. 25, 2020, by a federal grand jury and charged with multiple child exploitation crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart today announced the takedown of a drug trafficking organization (DTO) responsible for distributing meth, heroin and marijuana in Kanawha and Fayette Counties. The takedown is the result of a long-term investigation, dubbed “Second Wave," led by the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Freedom Lee, 26, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. The charges carry a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Darrell Chapman, also known as “Bishop" and “Sly Foxx," age 40, was sentenced today to 198 months in prison for narcotics and gun offenses.
