News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Worked with a Source of Methamphetamine While That Source was in Jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh has been sentenced in federal court to five years’ imprisonment followed by four years of supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute or possess with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of heroin and fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Eric Soto, age 38, of Queens County, New York, was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for distributing and possessing with intent to distribute over 800 grams of heroin, and oxycodone pills, in June 2018 in various locations in Albany County.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: YAKIMA, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced that the Yakima Basin water supply will fully satisfy senior water rights. Junior water rights will receive up to 100% of entitlements based on the July 2020 total water supply available forecast. This is an improvement from the June water supply estimate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: EVANSVILLE - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today, Rose Ann Azzarello, 60, Ft. Branch, Ind., and Andrea Renee Pytlinski, 38, Ft. Branch, Ind., were arrested and charged with wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Trafficking Wildlife.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released its reports accompanying the fiscal year 2021 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies and Legislative Branch appropriations bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Thomas Cooper, a mail carrier in Pendleton County, has admitted to attempted election fraud, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury today indicted four men for their roles in a massive compounded medication fraud and kickback scheme they ran out of a pharmacy in Clifton, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By State Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that the World Health Organization (WHO) will authorize an interim review of its COVID-19 response by an independent panel of experts:
By State Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Congressman Michael McCaul, Republican Leader on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today introduced the bipartisan Rewards for Providing Information on Foreign Election Interference Act with the Committee’s Chairman, Representative Eliot Engel. This legislation aims to combat foreign election interference by increasing State Department resources to reward people who alert American authorities about foreign attempts to interfere in U.S. elections.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two Charleston men appeared in federal court this week on gun charges, according to United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Washington - 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 (USDA) made other adjustments to the program based on comments received...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP, in which the President sought to block compliance by his longtime accountant, Mazars USA LLP, with the Committee’s duly authorized subpoena...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in connection with using the identity of a U.S. citizen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Francisco Alcantar-Miranda, aka Paquin, 31, of Mexico, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for conspiring to manufacture, to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd, who sentenced Alcantar, also ordered the forfeiture of a handgun and approximately $18,000 in cash.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The chairs of the House committees with jurisdiction over health care condemned the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for finalizing a rule that weakens protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for LGBTQIA+ individuals, women, people with limited English proficiency, immigrants, people of color, people with disabilities, and patients from other marginalized communities and urged HHS Secretary Alex Azar to immediately rescind it.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Baldwin Hills man is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon on federal charges that allege he conned victims from across the nation into giving him their high-end and exotic vehicles with bogus promises he would find other people to take over their leases.
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 DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the winners of the first phase of competition for the Water Resource Recovery Prize. Launched in January 2020, the Water Resource Recovery Prize accelerates resource recovery from municipal wastewater across the United States. In this two-phased competition, DOE seeks novel, systems-based solutions from multidisciplinary teams at small- to medium-sized water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs).
