News from July 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - This week representatives from the federal government, state and local election officials, private sector election companies, and national political committees participated in the election community’s largest annual exercise to test and refine Election Day response plans. The third Tabletop...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - Two women have been charged in a 32-count indictment related to the false filing of tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - George Cruz, 30, of Nashua, was sentenced on Wednesday to 63 months in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement calling for greater action to expand testing in light of Republicans announcing a proposal which falls far short of the $75 billion...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jack Carl Rice, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 57 months incarceration for a child pornography charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Tennessee State Senator Katrina Robinson, 39, has now been indicted for theft and embezzlement involving government programs and wire fraud. Robinson was previously charged in this matter by a federal criminal complaint that was unsealed on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. On Thursday, July 30...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Sean Michael Fujiwara, 43, of Kailua, Hawaii, was charged on July 28, 2020 by federal complaint with sending threatening interstate communications. Fujiwara has been remanded to federal custody pending further proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Three Tribal Officials Charged in Bribery Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A former Dublin, Ohio woman pleaded guilty via video conference in U.S. District Court today to conspiring to steal exosome-related trade secrets concerning the research, identification and treatment of a range of pediatric medical conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Settles with Private School to Ensure Compliance with the ADA.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Cañon City, Colo. - In response to recent and forecasted precipitation across the western Front Range, the Bureau of Land Management’s Royal Gorge Field Office is lifting fire restrictions on BLM-managed lands in three counties in central Colorado. Fire restrictions will be lifted on BLM lands in Lake, Chaffee, and Fremont counties effective today, July 30, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: A superseding indictment was unsealed today charging Isabel Tcruz and Noli Tcruz with tax evasion and multiple health care fraud offenses, and charging Dr. Terry S. Baul with participating in a health care fraud conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today. Previously, only Isabel Tcruz had been indicted with health care fraud offenses in this case.
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 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 DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Donal O’Sullivan and Two High-Ranking Company Employees Allegedly Schemed To Cheat Union Benefits Funds Out of Required Contributions.
By State Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement on the State Department’s report on the JUST Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today, Christian Lovies, 21, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was sentenced to more than 32 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge James R. Sweeney. In February, a jury found Lovies guilty of kidnapping, carjacking, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a violent crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to distributing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Cambridge man was arrested today and charged with child pornography offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on Wednesday, July 29, 2020, United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger sentenced Michael Brandstrom, age 29, of Council Bluffs, to 480 months in prison. He was sentenced to 360 months imprisonment for Production...
