News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A leader of the Worcester Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty today to drug distribution charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey delivered the following farewell remarks to the Committee on the final day of markups for the 116th Congress.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to news the White House is instructing hospitals to report data to a new system it set up instead of the National...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Michael Junkins, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 300 months of incarceration for drug and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
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: A four-person cabal has been charged with plotting a hit on a DEA task force officer, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A California man was sentenced today to over 12 years in prison for orchestrating an investment fraud and money laundering conspiracy that caused losses of $25 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: A 24-count indictment was unsealed yesterday in federal court in Central Islip charging eight members of the violent transnational criminal organization La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the “MS-13," with multiple racketeering offenses in connection with six murders, two attempted murders, a kidnapping...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Canadian man was sentenced to prison today for paying approximately $200,000 to conspire with others to secure his children’s admission to college by cheating on their college entrance exams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - An Ashburnham man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Worcester to selling firearms on three occasions in 2019 in Fitchburg.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - July 15, 2020 - A Nashville man with a history of impersonating a law enforcement officer and firefighter is now facing federal charges, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that a four-count indictment was unsealed in the Northern District of Ohio charging six men with conspiracy to engage in sexual exploitation of children, sexual exploitation of children, conspiracy to receive visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and conspiracy to access with intent to view child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Committee voted to favorably report 17 bills to the full House of Representatives that will improve quality and access to health care...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at a Full Committee markup of 30 bipartisan health, energy, and communications and technology bills.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: * The parkwide wildland fire danger for Yellowstone National Park is now HIGH.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Committee voted to favorably report 17 bills to the full House of Representatives that will improve quality and access to health care...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report he requested out today on the tragic deaths of two children in Customs and Border Protection care in 2018. Through...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man who caught law enforcement’s attention when he was shot pleaded guilty today to growing hallucinogenic mushrooms, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox announced today that eight individuals have been arrested in the Eastern District of Texas pursuant to a federal indictment which alleges drug and money laundering violations.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
Release: NEW LONDON, Conn. - On Saturday Transportation Security Administration employees honed their skills and coordinated the participation of over 40 agents representing (15) federal, state and local agencies during a Collaborative Operation By Response Agency (COBRA) deployment exercise. This intermodal exercise brought together first response agencies to help enhance their familiarity with each other’s assets, resources and jurisdiction.
