News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - Two Dayton men have been sentenced this week in federal court to serve more than five years in prison for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Earl Stone Jr., a/k/a Ooh Wop, 28, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and $1,000,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Tucson, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Gila District is issuing a temporary emergency closure of public lands in Cochise County. This closure affects public lands within the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area (SPRNCA). The closure area includes the area north of Highway 90 to Horsethief Wash, east of the administrative road across the river and the riparian area on approximately 100 acres.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.9 million grant to the city of Orange Cove, California, to provide sewer and roadway infrastructure improvements to support the community and its businesses. The EDA grant, to be located in a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Opportunity Zone, will be matched with $485,700 in local funds and is expected to create or retain 330 jobs.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million grant to the city of Crockett, Texas, to make critical broadband and natural gas infrastructure improvements at the city’s industrial park. The EDA grant, to be matched with $500,000 in local investment, is expected to create or retain more than 70 jobs and spur $3.1 million in private investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Brian Thomas, 59 of Elmira, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with receipt, possession, and distribution of child pornography. Due to Thomas’ previous criminal history involving child sexual exploitation crimes, the charges carry an enhanced minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, an enhanced maximum penalty of 40 years in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A resident of the Beverly Grove neighborhood of Los Angeles was ordered held without bond this afternoon after being arrested on federal charges alleging he fraudulently obtained millions of dollars in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, some of which he used on gambling excursions to Las Vegas and transferred to his stock trading accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Prairie Village, Kansas, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to engaging in two separate fraud schemes related to millions of dollars in false payday loan debt and to tax evasion totaling more than $8 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, Missouri - Leneko Waller, 26, of St. Louis, Missouri was sentenced to 60 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to reporting that Donald Trump is demanding a payroll tax cut in the next coronavirus relief package...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: TAOS, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is announcing that it will allow for additional fuelwood harvest in San Pedro, to minimize further residual heavy fuels from previous thinning activities. Due to public safety concerns during harvesting, this area will be closed to shooting from July 16-30...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: On Thursday, House Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) requested information from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about the massive hack that commandeered several high-profile accounts the day before.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: MEMPHIS, TN - Devonell Montgomery, 23, has been sentenced to 156 months in federal prison for two separate armed carjacking incidents and for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Edgardo Rivera, also known as “Eggy," 28, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 138 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for fentanyl distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General William P. Barr announced today the appointment of Prim F. Escalona as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 546.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - United States Attorney General William Barr addressed an audience of corporate and academic leaders at the President Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the threats posed by the People’s Republic of China to American business and academic interests. Following...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Essentra Fze Admits to North Korean Sanctions and Fraud Violations, Agrees to Pay Fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA, Ga. - Michael Terrell has pleaded guilty to forcibly assaulting a federal mail carrier, and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of that crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The former owner of 9Round Gym in Peninsula Town Center was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for leading a large-scale drug trafficking organization on the Virginia Peninsula.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Mhamood Fadl Salih Khairi, 28, of St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with bulk cash smuggling. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
