News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Santa Barbara County man was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison for orchestrating a years-long scheme that defrauded investors out of more than $3.4 million with false promises to use their money to purchase shares of Facebook and Twitter prior to the companies’ initial public offerings.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Aug. 25, 2020, a federal grand jury indictment was issued against Jeffrey R. Jones (age: 35) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION - As part of the Trump Administration’s commitment to streamlining regulations and promoting American economic prosperity, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today finalized changes to its non-energy solid minerals leasing regulations. These reforms will remove unnecessary and burdensome...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A former PG&E employee pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and admitted to receiving kickback payments from a Stockton transportation company owned by his cousin, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jesse David Tolson and Melissa Ann Slayton, both of Elkins, West Virginia, are facing drug charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA - Daniel McMahon, 32, was sentenced today in federal court in the Western District of Virginia to 41 months of imprisonment for threatening an African-American Charlottesville City Council candidate because of his race and because he was running for office, and for cyberstalking...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, Aug. 31, 2020 - Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will extend several flexibilities through as late as Dec. 31, 2020. The flexibilities allow summer meal program operators to continue serving free meals to all children...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Putnam County man pled guilty today to stealing fentanyl and morphine, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Kelly Keene, 49, entered a guilty plea to obtaining controlled substances by fraud and deception.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced Charlie Lee Wright, Jr. (52, Summerfield) to 17 years and 7 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. A federal jury had found Wright guilty in December 2019. Because of Wright’s extensive...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal grand jury in Providence has returned a superseding indictment charging six individuals with allegedly laundering millions of dollars gained through multi-faceted fraud schemes run out of Nigeria, primarily targeting elderly U.S. citizens.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee members held a bipartisan teleconference briefing with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, M.D., today about the agency’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Commissioner Hahn was joined on the teleconference by Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) Director Peter Marks M.D., PhD., and Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Acting Director Patrizia Cavazzoni M.D.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 55-year-old Titus County, Texas, man and a 54-year-old federal inmate have pleaded guilty to a bribery conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: An American businesswoman with international ties pleaded guilty today for her role in facilitating an unregistered lobbying campaign of the Administration of the President of the United States and the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of foreign principals in exchange for millions of dollars.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: (MILES CITY, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management is accepting comments on an environmental assessment that analyzes potential impacts from a modification to American Colloid Company’s existing plan of operations to mine bentonite in Carter County.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, applauded a school nutrition waiver announcement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which he requested earlier this month.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Connecticut man who held positions involving facility maintenance at three collegiate institutions pleaded guilty today in connection with receiving bribes in exchange for directing contracts to favored contractors.
By State Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY- Representatives Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Michael T. McCaul, the Committee’s Ranking Member, today released the following statement on Belarus expelling journalists covering the ongoing protests...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee members held a bipartisan teleconference briefing with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, M.D., today about the agency’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Commissioner Hahn was joined on the teleconference by Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) Director Peter Marks M.D., PhD., and Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Acting Director Patrizia Cavazzoni M.D.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, were joined by Committee Democrats in sending a letter to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanding testimony from each of their departments regarding the current U.S. strategy in Afghanistan.
