News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man, Jody Shipman, 29, was sentenced in federal court on Thursday, to 165 months in prison, by Chief U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves, for carjacking, with the intent to inflict serious bodily harm or death, on two occasions.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million grant to the Port of Woodland, Woodland, Washington, to support the full infrastructure buildout of the Rose Way Industrial Park to serve light-manufacturing...
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: Memphis, TN - Cody Davis, 28, has pleaded guilty in federal court to armed carjacking and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, NY - The Justice Department announced today that it reached an agreement with the Gates Chili Central School District in Rochester, New York, to resolve the Department’s lawsuit alleging disability discrimination in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - Wayne Banks, 42, of St. Louis, Missouri, was indicted by a federal grand jury for felon in possession of a firearm. He was charged by a complaint on Aug. 17, 2020, is in federal custody, and was presented in federal court this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Kansas City, MO - United States Marshal Mark S. James announced today the capture of two recent and separate shooting suspects on the same day.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Join the National Park Service this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. EDT for the first installment of the 2020 Fort Dupont Summer Concert Series. You’re invited to a live watch party of performances by We Are One X-perience Band and The New Soul Searchers with sounds by DJ Lance Reynolds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: St. Louis - A federal grand jury indicted James Timothy Norman, 41, of Jackson, Mississippi, and Terica Ellis, 36, of Memphis, Tennessee, for the offenses of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and murder-for-hire, resulting in death. The grand jury also charged Norman and Waiel Rebhi Yaghnam, 42, of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment yesterday charging JOEL LINDSAY, also known as “Joey Guapo," 22, and JOSEPH PINA, 23, both of East Hartford, with offenses related to the sex trafficking of a minor.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news that Steve Bannon and others - who had their own border wall built by Fisher Sand and Gravel - have been charged with embezzling public donations...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: A Denison, Texas woman who faked stomach cancer in order to delay a prison sentence has been sentenced to an additional five years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former client relationship manager at Bank of America was arrested and charged today in connection with embezzling $1.5 million from a client company and using a portion of those funds to purchase luxury items.
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: PITTSBURGH - Three residents of New York, pleaded guilty in recent weeks in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, and bank fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today. The charges are in connection with a complex scheme related to the importation into...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: FILLMORE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Fillmore Field Office will reopen the Little Sahara Recreation Area (LSRA) Visitor Center on August 23 and begin accepting online payment for recreation use fees at LSRA. Visitors will have the option to pay the recreation use fee online at recreation.gov (file://blm/dfs/ut/sl/loc/ALLWDD/Public%20Affairs/News%20Releases/FY20/recreation.gov) or through the Recreation.gov mobile app.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Today, National Park Service (NPS) South Atlantic-Gulf Regional Director Stan Austin announced the selection of Allen Etheridge as the new superintendent of Shiloh National Military Park in Shiloh, Tennessee. Etheridge will begin his new assignment on October 11. “Allen’s expertise in conservation...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $1.2 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to three EDA Economic Development District organizations in Pennsylvania to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today released the following statements after the Department of Energy (DOE) issued a final, unconditional order authorizing the Alaska LNG project to export liquefied natural gas (LNG). Murkowski participated in a video teleconference ...
By State Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul, Republican Leader on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s announcement that the United States notified the UN Security Council of Iran’s failure to meet commitments under the nuclear deal, triggering the re-imposition of previously suspended UN Sanctions.
