News from July 2020

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - Richard Gregory Perrot appeared in federal court before Chief United State District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, and was found guilty on 6 counts of vandalism to two separate motor vehicles. Perrot is awaiting sentencing, which is scheduled in Raleigh on Sept. 14, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected two projects to receive approximately $2 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development. The projects will improve coal combustion residuals management under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002190, Research for Innovative Emission Reduction Technologies Related to Coal Combustion Residuals.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Glen Zinszer, 50, of Liverpool, New York, made his initial appearance yesterday and was arraigned in federal court in Syracuse, on charges that he filed false federal tax returns and failed to file a tax return when he was required to do so. Following the court appearance, Zinszer...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Shiva Chandan Reddy Thudi, 26, of Irving, Texas was sentenced on Wednesday to 12 months and a day in federal prison for wire fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: On July 28, 2020, the Bureau of Land Management, Elko District Office, Wells Field Office concluded the 2020 Antelope Valley Herd Management Area (HMA) emergency wild horse gather. The BLM gathered and removed 54 wild horses from areas around the Deer Springs water source, within the HMA located about...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Aberdeen, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, GA-Two convicted felons are in custody and are charged by federal criminal complaint after a cache of weapons was found in an Albany hotel room.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Agency Village, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child and Abusive Sexual Contact.

By DOL Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Yesterday, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, voted to confirm the nomination of Lauren McFerran to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and opposed the nomination of Marvin Kaplan, due to his extreme...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA -A Tallahassee man was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison on July 23, 2020, after his conviction on sex trafficking charges. Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced that Dishay Henderson, 36, was sentenced last week following a January jury verdict finding him guilty of Enticement of a Minor to Engage in Prostitution and two counts of Sex Trafficking of a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was charged today with assaulting officers with a firearm during the civil disorder in Boston early in the morning of June 1, 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, Florida - A Tallahassee man was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison July 23, 2020, after his conviction on sex trafficking charges. Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced that Dishay Henderson, 36, was sentenced last week following a January jury verdict finding him guilty of enticement of a minor to engage in prostitution and two counts of sex trafficking of a minor.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Tucson, Ariz. (July 30, 2020) --- Effective Thursday, July 30, 2020, the Bureau of Land Management Gila District, all districts of the Coronado National Forest, Saguaro National Park, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Coronado National Memorial, Chiricahua National Monument, Fort Bowie National Historic...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing firearms and methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Joseph D. Sonnier, 31, of Gautier, Mississippi, has been charged in an indictment, returned by a Federal Grand Jury on July 28, 2020, with four counts of assault on an officer or employee of the government, one count of felon in possession of a firearm and four counts of discharging...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. - The Bureau of Land Management today approved revised Resource Management Plans that will guide agency land management decisions on more than 800,000 acres of public lands and nearly 1.4 million acres of subsurface mineral estate in western and central Montana for the next 20 years.

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $38 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 adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Southern California.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today, TRISH CHRISTOPHER, age 36, of Metairie was sentenced to three years of probation before U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan, for aiding and assisting in the preparation of false federal tax returns, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(2), a crime punishable by up to.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: The health care executive at the center of a $70 million compounded pain and scar cream fraud has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Kansas, woman was charged in federal court today with stealing a vehicle at gunpoint from the parking garage at the Country Club Plaza.