News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A West Hollywood man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Miami to criminal charges stemming from the sale of bogus artworks he claimed were created by famed modern artists, and he was immediately ordered to serve 60 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri remind taxpayers of the July 15 filing and payment deadline and warn against an increase in tax and COVID-19 scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Jailed defendants pledged to pay $20,000 to “off" an agent involved in their meth case.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Badlands National Park, Interior, SD - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Badlands National Park is increasing recreational access and services. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Ocala, FL - Curtis Duncan (30, Ocala) has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Kansas building contractor was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in prison and fined $25,000 for conspiring to deprive the city of Lawrence of sales tax revenues in connection with the development of a seven-story hotel adjacent to the University of Kansas campus. After completing his sentence, the defendant will serve three years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Marshals Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force is offering up to $10,000 (each) for any information leading to the arrests of two men suspected in the July 4 murder of an 11-year-old boy.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $3 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Indicted in 2016 following an undercover sting operation, the defendant fought extradition for years but was sent to Philadelphia to face justice nearly one year ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Caroline Otto Named Assistant Director of the Resource Planning Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Joseph Lloyd James, 49, of Norfolk, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha to life imprisonment for First Degree Murder in Indian Country by United States District Court Judge Brian C. Buescher. On November 5, 2018, James murdered Phyllis Hunhoff...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Ocean Springs, Miss. - Gulf Islands National Seashore will reopen Ship Island immediately following temporary repairs to the pier. The island will resume regular operations, but Fort Massachusetts will remain closed. The National Park Service has awarded a contract for permanent repairs to the pier and expects to start work in mid-August.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury today indicted a Somerset County, New Jersey, man for allegedly distributing and possessing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 14, 2020, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Jesse K. Bell (age: 32) of Neenah, Wisconsin.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -The Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy held a virtual briefing entitled “Guardrails to Ensure a Safe and Effective COVID-19 Vaccine" to examine the process used by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to review and license or authorize any vaccine candidates for the novel coronavirus.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, July 14, 2020, Shaqual Lamar Brown, a 28-year-old man from Phenix City, Alabama, was sentenced to 120 months in prison after pleading guilty to a federal gun charge, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Brown was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release after he completes his prison sentence. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Tammy Newsome, 54, of Ashland, Kentucky, entered a guilty plea to mail fraud for her role in a scheme to defraud Toyota of more than $4.3 million, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Newsome joins three other individuals who previously entered guilty pleas for their roles in the fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Cumberland man who previously admitted to robbing banks in Providence and Pawtucket within a month of one another in mid-summer 2019 was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HANEEF BROOKS, 41, of East Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Victor A. Bolden to one count of possession for a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, Missouri - Lautha Anderson, 26, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to 36 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey.
