News from July 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement after the Department of Health...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Eight defendants were sentenced to federal prison and one defendant pled guilty this week for participating in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) operating between California and Raleigh County, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Honolulu, HI - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local public health authorities, Pearl Harbor National Memorial will resume access to the USS Arizona Memorial. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and is using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: For Distribution of Heroin and Cocaine Base.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A California couple has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges in connection with securing the fraudulent admission of their daughter to the University of Southern California as a purported athletic recruit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: For Hobbs Act Robbery and Attempted Hobbs Act Robbery.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man has been charged with bank fraud, theft and identity theft following a multiagency investigation, which included U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for distributing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -A former resident of Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court on July 8, 2020 on his conviction of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the New River Valley Regional Commission, Fairlawn, Virginia, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Hal H. Brown Jr., 70, of Asheville, N.C., was sentenced to 210 months in prison and three years of supervised release for orchestrating a $22 million Ponzi scheme, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell also ordered Brown to pay more than $17 million as restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III has sentenced Devon Denzel Thompson, age 26, of Woodlawn, Maryland, to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute three kilograms of fentanyl. Judge Russell also ordered Thompson to forfeit drug proceeds of $14,144 in cash and a.380-caliber firearm and ammunition recovered during a search of his home. The sentence was imposed on July 9, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Thursday, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. James E. Clyburn, the Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, sent a letter asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine methods to promote the supply chain of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Panhandle Regional Planning Commission, Amarillo, Texas, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Coalport, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: First Federal Criminal Jury Trial Conducted In Bay Area Since COVID-19 Shutdown.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Arturo David Aguilera-Viveros, age 36, of Adams County, Colorado, pleaded guilty yesterday to Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute 500 Grams or More of Methamphetamine and 100 Grams or More of Heroin, as well as Illegal Reentry After Deportation. The Denver Office of the FBI joined in this announcement.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: OGDEN, Utah - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested a previously deported felon convicted of, among other crimes, sexual assault on a child July 2.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released the following statement on the announcement from the United States Trade Representative (USTR) that the United States would impose tariffs on $1.3 billion of French goods.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Kailua-Kona, HAWAI‘I - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historic Park is increasing public access. The National Park Service (NPS) is working service wide 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.
