News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Four former corrections officers at the Jackson County Detention Center in Kansas City, Missouri, have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment for their roles in violating the constitutional rights of an inmate by beating the inmate without any legal justification.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - NNAMDI FRANKLIN OJIMBA, 36, currently from Chicago, Illinois, has been sentenced to 102 months in federal prison for his role in a fraudulent romance scheme involving victims throughout the United States, announced Timothy J. Downing, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 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, and Senator Bob Casey, (D-PA) announced they will reintroduce the Protect Access to Birth Control Act when the Senate returns. The legislation would stop...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: A rheumatology professor and researcher with strong ties to China has been ordered held without bond to face a charge of grant fraud for not disclosing that he was engaged in a sophisticated scheme to use approximately $4.1 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop China’s...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - A Louisiana State Police task force that includes personnel from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New Orleans seized more than $7 million in marijuana, illegal firearms, and arrested four suspects on state drug trafficking charges July 8.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man Flees in Convertible After Robbing Albuquerque Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Isaiah Whitmore, 27, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge Jon E. DeGuilio upon his plea of guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Robert. J. Bell of the Chicago Field Division and United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: ATHENS, Ga. - A defendant charged in an ongoing, large-scale drug trafficking investigation dubbed “Operation Wu Block," has pleaded guilty for her crime, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Pandemic EBT to Feed Children during COVID-19 National Emergency Washington, D.C., July 9, 2020 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced Utah has been approved to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), a new program authorized by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), signed by President Trump, which provides assistance to families of children eligible for free or reduced-price meals dealing with school closures.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Applications for New Commodities Accepted Beginning July 13 Washington, D.C., July 9, 2020 – Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced an initial list of additional commodities that have been added to the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), and that the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Yesterday, the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice held a hearing on community trust and respect for law enforcement. The hearing was conducted via teleconference and featured expert witnesses who provided testimony and answered questions from the commissioners.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a settlement with J.R. Simplot Company and its subsidiary, Simplot Phosphates LLC (Simplot), involving Simplot’s Rock Springs, Wyoming, manufacturing facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Four former corrections officers at the Jackson County Detention Center in Kansas City, Missouri, have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment for their roles in violating the constitutional rights of an inmate by beating the inmate without any legal justification. Today, U.S. District Court Judge Gary ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: A rheumatology professor and researcher with strong ties to China has been ordered held without bond to face a charge of grant fraud for not disclosing that he was engaged in a sophisticated scheme to use approximately $4.1 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop China’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: A three-count indictment was returned today in the Eastern District of Virginia, charging an American military contractor for her alleged role in a theft ring on a military installation in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: A Texas man pleaded guilty today in federal court in the Western District of Texas on charges of conspiring to traffic thousands of live reptiles, amphibians, and birds, valued in excess of $3.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: A Tennessee healthcare executive was sentenced to 42 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release today for his role in an approximately $4 million kickback scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: A federal judge in San Antonio sentenced 32-year-old Trorice Crawford of San Diego, California, to 46 months in federal prison for his role in an identity-theft and fraud scheme that victimized thousands of U.S. servicemembers and veterans, the Department of Justice announced today.
By Fed Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: The Leaders Group, Inc., Oak Brook, Illinois Written Agreement dated April 26, 2011 (PDF) Terminated July 1, 2020 Additional enforcement actions can be searched for here.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: MOBILE, AL – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Miller & Co. Inc. for failing to protect employees from struck-by hazards after a worker was fatally injured at the company’s Selma, Alabama, facility. The lumber and flooring manufacturer faces $218,192 in penalties.
