News from August 2020
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Grand Teton National Park in partnership with the Grand Teton National Park Foundation are working to improve sections of the Teton Crest Trail. There will be intermittent 30-minute closures on a section of the trail near the summit of Hurricane Pass between August 19-24 and September 3-8. Backpackers planning on hiking the Teton Crest Trail during these dates should expect delays in both directions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that the United States has settled allegations that Islands Mechanical Contractor, Inc. (IMC) improperly submitted claims for standby or delay costs associated with construction contracts at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Phoenixville Hospital and Phoenixville Hospital Co., LLC (“Phoenixville Hospital") has agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act by causing the submission of altered forms to the Pennsylvania Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Roseboro man was sentenced today to 372 months in prison for carjacking, possession of a firearm in furtherance of the carjacking, possession of a stolen firearm, and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a felon. The defendant, Demery Bernard McLymore, 26, was convicted by jury trial in February of each of the four counts alleged in the indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -- Michael Wedington, Jr., age 19, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty on Aug. 20, 2020, to the federal charge of kidnaping for his role in the armed carjacking of two victims in June 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Maurice Neal, 31, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to 25 years in prison and lifetime supervised release by United States District Court Judge Timothy J. Savage for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that David Rubel, 38, of Kenmore, NY, was arrested and charged by complaint with production and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Shannon Hardy Sekel Conspired with Her Mother to Steal Funds Paid into a Deceased Man’s Checking Account.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Yesterday, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a second superseding indictment against five defendants charged with kidnapping resulting in murder and firearm offenses, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Dear Acting Chairman Rubio and Vice Chairman Warner...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice today filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit supporting a parochial high school student and her parents who claim that Vermont discriminated against them in violation of the Free Exercise Clause of the U.S. Constitution by excluding them from a state program paying tuition for high school students to take up to two college courses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Donald Blaine Ashby, 39, has been sentenced to 180 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn today announced that Richard Angel Gonzales, age 46, was sentenced to serve 185 months (over 15 years) in federal prison consecutive to prior sentences, for two in-custody assaults -- the first of a fellow inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary in Florence, and the second of a contract security officer at the federal courthouse in Denver. The Denver Division of the FBI joined in this announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Brian Leroy Watson, Jr., a/k/a “B," a/k/a “Lil B," 48, of Blythewood, was arrested on a federal indictment charging nine counts of human trafficking and attempted human trafficking and three counts of drug-related...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: A pharmacy marketer who allegedly collected more than $60 million in illegal kickbacks has been charged with violating the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, Northern District of Texas First Assistant U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Naval Station Newport employee found to have stored hundreds of images of child pornography on a United States Navy owned computer drive has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence to a charge of possession of child pornography, in a Project Safe Childhood case brought by the United States Attorney's Office.
By State Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement regarding the president’s announcement that the United States will ask the UN Security Council to restore all nuclear-related sanctions on Iran, triggering a “snapback" of sanctions related to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA):
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Shahime Ludvig, Jr., 22, of St. Thomas, was sentenced today on his conviction of possessing cocaine with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By State Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Washington-Congressman Michael McCaul, Republican Leader on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Congressman Eliot Engel, Chairman of the Committee today released the following statement on the occasion of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi’s visit to Washington...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 46-year-old Alamo man is set to appear in federal court on allegations he accepted a bribe, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
