News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Last week, Doncio Eagle Havatone, 35, of Peach Springs, Arizona was sentenced by United States District Judge Steven P. Logan to 120 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Havatone previously pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Speaker of the House was arrested this morning and charged in a federal racketeering conspiracy involving approximately $60 million paid to a 501(c)(4) entity to pass and uphold a billion-dollar nuclear plant bailout.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: The Defendant Fired Shots near an Elementary School Using a Stolen Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Massachusetts used car dealer and eight others have been named in a federal superseding indictment brought in U.S. District Court in Providence, RI, charging them with allegedly participating in a wide-reaching conspiracy to defraud financial institutions in several states by obtaining fraudulent car loans secured with stolen personal identifying information and fraudulent documents created by members of the conspiracy.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced that David Wilson Floyd, formerly of Michigan City, Indiana, was sentenced to serve 216 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney. Floyd pled guilty in March 2020 to armed bank robbery and attempted bank robbery. Upon release, Floyd will be supervised for 3 years.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Gay Vietzke has named Amy Bracewell as the new superintendent of the Home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt National Historic Site, Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site (Val-Kill) and Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site in Hyde Park, New York. She will also oversee management of the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site in Kinderhook, New York. Bracewell will begin her new assignment on Sept. 13, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the unsealing of a federal indictment charging TYAIREON MARTEZ WEST-PORTER, 23, with one count of possession of a firearm by a felon. WEST-PORTER, who was arrested on July 20, 2020, made his initial appearance earlier today before Magistrate Judge...
By State Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Today, the Justice Department charged two hackers from the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) intelligence agency for targeting COVID-19 research. According to the 11-count indictment by the Justice Department, these hackers “have conducted a hacking campaign lasting more than ten years...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Baltimore Man Posed as a Teenage Girl on Social Media and Other Platforms to Entice Teenage Boys to Send Sexually Explicit Images.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR); Chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS); Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Gary Peters (D-MI); Chair of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Malden man was charged today with identity fraud and with submitting fraudulent applications for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). The federal PUA program provides unemployment-related benefits to individuals who have been impacted by COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Vienna man pleaded guilty today to charges related to his role in a conspiracy that conducted multiple swatting events targeting journalists, a Virginia university, a historic Virginia church, and a former cabinet official.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A 5.8-magnitude earthquake centered near Lone Pine, California recently prompted rapid notifications from the EM to waste generators shipping classified and low-level, and mixed low-level radioactive waste to the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Chairman of the Oversight and Reform Committee’s Subcommittee on National Security, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Salvadoran national with a homicide conviction, a Mexican national with an outstanding warrant for child molestation, and a Mexican national charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon are three of the most egregious cases of detainers placed in June by local law enforcement officials with delegated 287(g) authority from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in the latest monthly report.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on the transfer of approximately 65 acres of Bureau of Land Management property - including 53 acres near Yuma, Ariz. - to the U.S. Department of the Army to accelerate the building of President Trump’s unpopular wall on our southern border. The transfer was made under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings man today admitted he strangled his partner during an argument at a residence on the Crow Indian Reservation and also was an habitual domestic assault offender, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
