News from August 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: SAN JOSE - James Gould, Jr. was sentenced today to 10 years in prison, and ordered to pay $12,000 in restitution for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Kittery man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Portland to two counts of interstate travel to violate a protection order, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reversed its decision and will take action to provide healthy meals to students through Dec. 31, 2020. For weeks, Senator Stabenow has urged the USDA to make this change and extend flexibilities that allow schools to feed children during the COVID-19 crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged the two individuals allegedly involved in an Aug. 7 chase through Cincinnati that resulted in the deaths of two bystanders in Newport, Ky. The indictment was returned Aug. 26 and unsealed today.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
Release: Columbia, S.C. - Today, Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette joined Attorney General Alan Wilson at the South Carolina State House to announce a historic settlement between the Trump Administration and the State of South Carolina on the removal of 9.5 metric tons of plutonium from the state. This settlement is the conclusion of years of litigation, which began during the Obama Administration and a directive from Congress from nearly two decades ago.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 596,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to China during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By Commerce 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: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged the two individuals allegedly involved in an Aug. 7 chase through Cincinnati that resulted in the deaths of two bystanders in Newport, Ky. The indictment was returned Aug. 26 and unsealed today.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 14 Texas counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Andrews, Brewster, Collingsworth, Culberson, Hall, Hemphill, Hockley, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio, Reeves, Sutton and Ward counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Joshua Noah Sams (20, Orange Park) with interference of interstate commerce by robbery and brandishing a firearm during a robbery. If convicted, Sams faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Greensboro, North Carolina, returned an indictment today charging two tax preparers with conspiring to defraud the United States and assisting in the preparation of false client tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Beckley woman was sentenced to federal prison for her participation in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) operating between California and Raleigh County, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Stephanie McClung, 48, of Beckley, was sentenced to 151 months in prison, to be followed by a five-year term of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute 50 grams or more of a substance containing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARIO ANTONIO HERRERA, also known as Antonio Morales, 37, a citizen of El Salvador last residing in East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Copper Center, AK - A rescue was initiated on Saturday, August 29th, for a hunter who slid down a slope and became stranded on a scree cliff. The 47-year old hunter from Wasilla, Alaska descended a slope near the confluence of the Nabesna River and Totschunda Creek in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Christopher Gelinas, 24, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court to distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Selvin Joiner, age 29, of Troy, New York, pled guilty today to distributing crack cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Visits Serve as Quality Checks to Ensure Everyone Is Counted.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Robert J. Chaires, age 40, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty today to twice distributing crack cocaine in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: North Carolina Man Pleads Guilty to COVID-19 Relief Fraud Schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Officer was dragged for several feet by moving vehicle and thrown to the ground.
