News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Blair County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: Brady, Scalise, Walden set the record straight about Democrats’ half-baked nursing home report.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: Event Held Virtually This Year via Zoom Was the Largest Attended Youth Summit To Date.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Michael Starkey, 29, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced today to serve 61 months in prison for his convictions on multiple charges relating to his participation in cocaine and crack cocaine distribution conspiracies, announced Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: Ilan T. Graff, Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that SOHRAB SHARMA, a/k/a “Sam Sharma," pled guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert W. Lehrburger to conspiring to commit securities fraud, wire fraud, and mail fraud in connection...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: Del Rio, Texas - Amistad National Recreation Area, in response to guidance from the local Public Health Service Authority, U.S. Public Health Service and to support the nation’s effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19, will temporarily close to all visitors on weekends.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
Release: APHIS updated the to include the following changes:APHIS restricts the movement of domestic soil from areas within the continental United States that are under quarantine for specific plant pests. The Federal Domestic Soil Quarantines Map provides an overview of the plant pest quarantines that affect ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that James Maynard, age 28, of Fremont, Nebraska, was sentenced on July 16, 2020, in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Chief United States District Court Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Maynard...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Brian Johnson, 35, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today for his role in defrauding Howard University out of more than $100,000, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin and James A. Dawson, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Washington Field Office’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors today filed criminal theft and tax fraud charges against the former executive director of a charter school outfit who stole more than $3.1 million that should have been spent on school operations, but instead financed a lifestyle that included extravagant spending on Disney cruises and theme park admissions.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: Rep. Rice Op-Ed: A Tax Credit for Healthy Workplaces.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: Daniel J. Trammell Allegedly Assaulted Letter Carrier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Edward Banks, 47 of Washington, D.C. was sentenced today to five years of incarceration for involuntary manslaughter. The announcement was made by the Acting United States Attorney, Michael R. Sherwin and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By USDA Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: Washington - As a part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on Coram Deo Farms Inc. (Coram Deo), Tubac, Ariz., for failing to meet...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: Ways & Means GOP Unveils Faster Cures through Innovation Agenda.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: A former Waterloo teacher was sentenced today to 8 months in federal prison. Defendant is to serve 4 months in BOP facility and 4 months in home confinement.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: Medford, Ore. - As the weather warms and fire danger increases, Bureau of Land Management Medford District officials are implementing additional public use restrictions on BLM-managed lands in southern Oregon. Starting July 17, 2020 at 12:01 a.m., certain activities on BLM-managed lands in Jackson and...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is seeking public comment on two documents related to the potential deregulation of a corn variety developed using genetic engineering for enhanced yield potential and resistance to glufosinate-ammonium herbicide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Thomas John Rowland, 30, of O’Fallon, Missouri, was charged by a federal complaint today with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO - A Missouri man who admitted to conspiring to launder more than $1 million in drug proceeds was sentenced Thursday to 216 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. The case was investigated by Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Homeland Security-Homeland Security Investigations, and the Jackson County Missouri Drug Task Force.
