News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart issued the following statement regarding violence against law enforcement.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: Census Response Representatives to Visit Low-Responding Areas.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: Dear Commissioner Saul: I write today to better understand your agency’s plans for reopening and returning federal employees to their normal duty stations in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While the country faces an unprecedented public health crisis and accompanying economic recession,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Quintine Scales was sentenced to 30 months in prison for fentanyl and heroin trafficking in September 2019 while on state parole and probation for prior heroin trafficking and gun crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay between June 28 - July 4, 2020. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: Arrested for DWI, man has illegally entered the United States eight times.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A Porterville man was arrested today after a federal grand jury returned a five‑count indictment on July 9, charging him with mail fraud and introducing a misbranded drug into interstate commerce with the intent to defraud, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: Washington - The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing more than $16 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in Mississippi. This investment is part of the $100 million in grant funding made available for the ReConnect Pilot Program through the CARES Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 59-year-old Kemah, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III today sentenced Raheem Benjamin, age 27, of Baltimore Maryland, to eight years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Jervonne Harris, age 41, of Hampton, Virginia, was sentenced today to serve 35 months in prison for conspiring to distribute marijuana and money laundering, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Kevin Kelly, Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By State Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul, Republican Leader on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the United Kingdom’s decision to ban Huawei from their 5G networks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Weston man has agreed to plead guilty in connection with a scheme to defraud private high schools and international students of millions of dollars in tuition and other fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. sentenced John Howard Johnson, 65, to 130 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, in connection with a series of armed bank robberies he committed in 2019, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term, Judge Cogburn also ordered Johnson to pay $8,569 as restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that today WESLEY T. BISHOP, age 52, of New Orleans was sentenced to 4 (four) years of probation, before U.S. District Judge Greg Guidry, for making a false statement, a crime punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. BISHOP admitted to knowingly...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Putnam County man was indicted today by a federal grand jury sitting in Huntington for making threats of violence against law enforcement officers on social media, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. The one count indictment charges Silas Thornton King, 18, of Hurricane, with interstate communications containing a threat to injure the person of another.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: Charles Westfall, Jr, age 32, from Clarion, Iowa, Donald Rundall III, age 42, from Stratford, Iowa, Jami Stupka, age 29, from Ames, Iowa and Leah Hanson, age 32, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received prison terms, ranging from over 8 years to time served for their roles in a conspiracy to steal, possess, and traffic firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - The Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Robert J. Bell of the Chicago Field Division, and the United States Attorney Scott C. Blader announced that Clifford T. Bowe, M.D., a retired Cadott, Wisconsin physician, entered into a settlement agreement to pay $70,000 to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Putnam County man was indicted today by a federal grand jury sitting in Huntington for making threats of violence against law enforcement officers on social media, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. The one count indictment charges Silas Thornton King, 18, of Hurricane, with interstate communications containing a threat to injure the person of another.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $397,671 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Southern Plains Economic Development District, Lubbock, Texas, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
