News from August 2020
By State Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Michael T. McCaul, the Committee’s Ranking Member, 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: NDAL Chosen for National Safety Partnership Program.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: ELY, Nev. - On Aug. 20, 2020, the Bureau of Land Management Ely District Office, Bristlecone Field Office, concluded the 2020 Triple B and Maverick-Medicine Herd Management Areas (HMAs) emergency wild horse gather. The BLM gathered and removed 390 wild horses from areas within and outside of the HMAs...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: FBI Statement on the Charging of Former Uber CSO for Covering Up 2016 Hack.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following an announcemen t from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) allowing lab developed COVID-19 tests to come to market without Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Sentences. Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced TAD NATHANIEL MATHILL, 44, of Gillette, Wyoming on Aug. 18, 2020 for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and possession of stolen mail. Mathill appeared pursuant to summons. He received thirty months of imprisonment, to be followed...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) published the third and final report as part of E&C Republicans’ Second Wave Preparedness Project. Today’s report makes many recommendations related to the health care supply chain.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On Aug. 20, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Randall Lee Comly, age 53, of Stuart, was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison following his guilty pleas to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, discharging a firearm in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: Pills Being Sold as Adderall Actually Contain Crystal Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A vendor for several Veterans Affairs medical facilities pleaded guilty today to a scheme to profit by billing for, but failing to perform, critical medical gas inspections at VA facilities.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, Aug. 19, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the approval of Idaho to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT). This new program, authorized by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) and signed by President Trump, provides the value of school breakfast and lunch to families of children who would otherwise receive free and reduced-price school meals, if not for COVID-related school closures.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Earlier this evening, the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Dorjan Churchman on two First Degree Murder warrants and four Aggravated Assault warrants. This was done in conjunction with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Fugitive Apprehension Team, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man has been indicted on charges of making corrupt payments to a public official, wire fraud, and using a facility in interstate commerce to facilitate bribery, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: DICKINSON, N.D. - The Bureau of Land Management and the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement are accepting public comments on a coal lease application from the Coteau Properties Freedom Mine in Mercer County during a 30-day scoping comment period ending Sept. 18, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Richard Scott Connally, of Montrose, West Virginia, was indicted on methamphetamine and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Somerset County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 135 months in prison and ten years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal child pornography and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Edgar Marin-Melendrez, 29, a citizen of Mexico, and Misael Elias, 22, of Bell, California, made their initial appearances in federal court yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cam Ferenbach for allegedly possessing with the intent to distribute more than 60 pounds of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich of the District of Nevada and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Daniel Neill of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: In January 2020, a plastics plant exploded in Houston leveling a building, scattering debris and causing two fatalities. Residents across the city felt the blast and responders rushed to the scene. In events like this, those who protect and serve need the right tools to get the job done while keeping...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Make a False Statement During the Purchase of a Firearm was sentenced on Aug. 10, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2020
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Lynn Haven City’s Mayor and Attorney are the subjects of a 64-count indictment returned yesterday by a federal grand jury in Panama City, Florida. Lynn Haven Mayor Margo Anderson, 65, of Jacksonville, Florida, and Lynn Haven City Attorney Joseph Adam Albritton, 33, of Lynn Haven...
