News from July 2020
By State Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Congressman Michael McCaul, Republican Leader on the House Foreign Affairs Committee released the following statement on Russian cyber-attacks on US, UK, and Canadian COVID-19 research centers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Phillip Cottman, 40, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to 28 years (336 months) and one day in prison by United States District Judge Berle M. Schiller for a spate of armed robberies over a three year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Jeremy Rubin, 32, of Lafayette, Louisiana, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Robert R. Summerhays, to possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Man arrested in possession of 26 kilograms of cocaine and $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Miami - Today, a federal judge in Miami sentenced 43-year-old Philip Righter, of California, to five years in prison for running a scheme in which he tried to dupe prominent art businesses, including one South Florida gallery, into spending millions of dollars on forgeries of works by renowned contemporary artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Martin Van Buren National Historic Site is beginning to increase recreational access to park grounds as of July 18, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Nolan Nishida, 37, of Wailuku, Maui, was sentenced today in federal court by Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway to 10 years of imprisonment followed by 10 years of supervised release for attempting to entice a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity. Nishida is required...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Phillip Cottman, 40, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to 28 years (336 months) and one day in prison by United States District Judge Berle M. Schiller for a spate of armed robberies over a three year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Nolan Nishida, 37, of Wailuku, Maui, was sentenced today in federal court by Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway to 10 years of imprisonment followed by 10 years of supervised release for attempting to entice a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity. Nishida is required...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
Release: AUSTIN - Officers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport have detected three firearms in travelers’ carry-on luggage in the first two days of this week, during X-ray screening of traveler belongings at the security checkpoints.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Hai Nguyen, 37, of New Castle, Delaware, was sentenced to ten months in prison and three years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge J. Curtis Joyner for lying to the FBI during the course of a double homicide investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Dieter D. Douglas, 34, of Shiprock, New Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque on July 14 to two counts of assault of an intimate partner by strangling or suffocating. The charges arose in Indian Country and were part of a superseding indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: For Cocaine Distribution and Possessing a Firearm as a Felon.
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: Violent drug trafficking organization operated out of Kokomo, Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Logan woman pled guilty to misappropriating funds from the Pioneer West Virginia Federal Credit Union, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Dianne Richardson, 69, pled guilty to embezzling $222,000.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - A Guatemalan man in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) at the Catahoula Correctional Center who had been hospitalized at a Monroe, Louisiana, hospital since Feb. 26, passed away on July 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - Three men face federal drug trafficking charges after law enforcement officers seized almost 80 kilograms of cocaine from the Dayton used car dealership one of them co-owns.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, and Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-8), Chairman of the Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, issued the following statement after the State Department revealed a draft report from the Commission on Unalienable Rights.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), and Senate Finance Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) released the following...
