News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: JACKSON, TN - Shannon Pettigrew, 35, has been sentenced to 92 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of firearm and being a felon in possession of ammunition on two separate occasions. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
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, released a new report detailing the Trump Administration’s failure to quickly scale up COVID-19 testing nationwide. The new report makes clear how a lack...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is making available up to $3.5 million for state and tribal governments to carry out research and management activities to help combat chronic wasting disease (CWD) in farmed and wild deer and elk populations. State ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Committee's markup of its fiscal year 2021 302(b) subcommittee allocations.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) West Desert District has seen an increase in human-caused wildfires this year with 21 human-caused fires, making up 75% of the district’s wildfires. For comparison, in 2019, 45% of the wildfires in the BLM West Desert District were human caused.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Nihad Rosic, aka Yahya Abuayesha Mudzahid, 32, of Utica, New York, appeared today before U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry. Rosic was sentenced to 96 months in prison for conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and providing material support to terrorists. Rosic was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshal to begin his sentence immediately.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JENNA DEFELICE, 35, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson to conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine.
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 Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Americans for Tax Reform . Published Friday, July 3, 2020. Iowa is benefiting greatly from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act enacted by congressional Republicans and President Trump: 243,620 Iowa households are benefiting from the TCJA’s doubling of the child tax credit. Every income group in every Iowa congressional...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: American Contractor Charged as Part of Theft Ring Responsible for Stealing Government Equipment from U.S. Military Base in Afghanistan.
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 DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Frank Salerno, 30, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty, before U.S. Chief Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr., to receiving child pornography The charge carries a minimum penalty of 5 years imprisonment, a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - A prolific small-town methamphetamine dealer involved in a larger wiretap investigation into methamphetamine trafficking in South Georgia has pleaded guilty for his crime, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Phil Grim, 43, of Cairo, Georgia, pleaded...
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 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: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that CARLOS DAVID IRIAS, age 47, a resident of Cutler Bay, Florida, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Greg G. Guidry to a one-count bill of information charging him with intentionally accessing a protected computer without...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Gay Vietzke has named Rosalyn “Rose" Fennell as the new superintendent of Valley Forge National Historical Park, Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, and the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail in Pennsylvania. Fennell will begin her new assignment on Sept. 27, 2020.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Washington - The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) today announced the acceptance of more than 1.2 million acres in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Grasslands during the recent signup period that began March 16 and ended May 15. The number of acres offered during this signup period was 1.9 million acres, over 3 times the number offered during the last signup period in 2016.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today approved the fiscal year 2021 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies bill by voice vote. The legislation funds agencies and programs within the Department of Agriculture, the Farm Credit Administration, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Food and Drug Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Received multiple ACH deposits from the State of Washington.
