News from July 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Two Nigerian nationals and a U.S. Citizen residing in the Chicago suburbs were charged last week for several cyber-enabled fraud conspiracies, an undercover federal law enforcement investigation revealed.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Kīpahulu, Maui - The National Park Service (NPS) is following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, as it continues to increase recreational access and services.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Mark Coleman, 57, a former Jackson Police Officer, was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury on July 14, 2020, and charged with one count of enticement of a minor and one count of destroying, concealing and impeding the investigation, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man who allegedly possessed numerous sexually explicit videos of children has been indicted on a federal child pornography charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -This week, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, held a hearing to examine how the coronavirus pandemic exposed the federal government’s broken IT infrastructures and how legacy systems failed Americans when they needed aid most.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Everardo Donoteo-Reyes, 29, of Mexico, who was convicted of possession of a counterfeit social security card and alien registration card, and illegal re-entry after deportation, was sentenced to serve 30 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management today announced the appointment of Greg Sheehan, a career wildlife conservation professional with decades of experience as the BLM’s new State Director for Utah. Sheehan will begin work on Aug. 2, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Deallto McQuil Key Davis, 25, of Maryland, pled guilty today to conspiring to defraud Wells Fargo Bank out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin and James A. Dawson, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Washington Field Office Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland, Ohio, has returned a 13-count indictment charging four sitting Toledo City Council members and one local attorney for their participation in a bribery and extortion scheme that encouraged soliciting and accepting cash, checks, money orders, or other things of value from local business owners in exchange for their votes on City Council.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Sandra King Embezzled Funds From Two Labor Unions Representing Workers in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, Using the Money to Pay Her Rent, Buy Liquor and Fund Other Personal Expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Thomas Kopach, age 33, of Gansevoort, New York, was arrested yesterday on a charge of transporting child pornography.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the bipartisan Elijah E. Cummings Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2020, legislation to authorize funds for, reinforce, and support the United States Coast Guard, as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The House passed similar...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: In Austin today, the federal grand jury indicted 35-year-old Joshua Colin Honigberg for possessing an improvised explosive device, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 36 months’ imprisonment and two years’ supervised release on his conviction of aggravated identity theft and use of counterfeit access devices, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - After a three-day jury trial in October 2019, a federal jury convicted Gene Allen Howell, 39, of Selmer, Tennessee of two counts of aggravated bank robbery, two counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. On July 20, 2020, Howell was sentenced to 466 months in federal prison. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement in support of the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) decision to modernize the standard by which union organizers and members are held accountable for profanity or language that is sexually or racially offensive...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Duquesne, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms law, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Cincinnati man, Quintin Tyler Brian Davis, 37, was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday, to 288 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, after previous being convicted of conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl and one kilogram or more of heroin, and possession with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Delvin Hutchinson, age 28, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on June 23, 2020, by a federal grand jury with making false statements in connection with the purchase of three firearms from federally licensed firearms dealers. The indictment was unsealed following Hutchinson’s recent arrest.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Workers recently finished removing contaminated soil under a section of the former Building K-25 footprint in another major action to help EM reach its goal to complete cleanup at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) this year.
