News from August 2020
By State Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today announced that the Committee has obtained two internal State Department documents showing clearly that Secretary Pompeo’s upcoming speech to the Republican National Convention (RNC) will violate legal restrictions...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury for the Southern District of Illinois has returned a ten-count indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Matthew John Cobb, 35, of Castleberry, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Cobb pleaded guilty to the charge in April of 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 24, 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 in Virginia to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $547,705 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Autonomous Municipality of Caguas, Puerto Rico, to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic in Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 67-year-old resident of Houston is set to appear in federal court on allegations of mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: Oklahoma City - TOMMY SAVANH NAMMIXAY, 41, of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to serve a federal prison term of 180 months for conspiracy to distribute marijuana and money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DONALD LAWLOR, 40, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for his role in a southern Connecticut drug trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of ANNAMARIE GREEN, 60, to one count of disability fraud. GREEN, who was indicted on January 8, 2020, entered her guilty plea this afternoon before Judge Nancy E. Brasel in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two Rapid City, South Dakota, men convicted of Carjacking Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, Discharge of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence, and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person were sentenced on Aug. 13, 2020, by Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Marquis Moss, 31, of Shreveport, was sentenced today for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. sentenced Moss to 115 months (9 years, 7 months) in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Beckley man was sentenced to federal prison for his participation in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) operating between California and Raleigh County, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Christopher Redden, 31, of Beckley, was sentenced to 87 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute a quantity of methamphetamine and for being an unlawful user in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: Officials Announce the Arrest of Thomas G. Bares for Threatening Communications.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 67-year-old resident of Houston is set to appear in federal court on allegations of mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Daniel Heatherly, 39, of Ripley, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in the commission of a drug trafficking crime. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A criminal complaint has been unsealed charging a 53-year-old College Station man for conspiracy, making false statements and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A Sacramento couple pleaded guilty today to conspiring to defraud the United States by submitting false claims for income tax refunds to the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Corbin, Ky., man was convicted Friday, by a federal jury sitting in London, of armed methamphetamine trafficking and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced Leon Williams (30, Tampa) to 17 years and 6 months in prison and Reginald Jones, Jr. (25, Tampa) to 15 years and 8 months in prison for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine, and marijuana, and for discharging a firearm during and in relation to that conspiracy. A federal jury had found Williams and Jones guilty on Nov. 15, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Keenan Gibson, 41, of Wilmington, was sentenced last week to more than 9 years in prison after a jury convicted Gibson of gun and drug charges in June 2019.
