News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Virginia State Police awarded over $80K for officer safety and wellness project.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Justin Herdman, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced today that Ryan Driscoll, age 48, of Aurora, was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to forfeit $628,950.00 in cash seized during a search warrant and pay $208,693.00 to the IRS as restitution after entering a plea of guilty on Jan. 15, 2020, to running an illegal sports gambling business with others, laundering the proceeds and filing a false income tax return.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: This is the final update on the Mangum Fire unless conditions change significantly. For further information, please visit the following links:.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILSON VELEZ, also known as “Wiso," 35, of Newington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 192 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for gang-related narcotics and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: For Possessing a Firearm as a Felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Kevin Jay Lipsitz with violations of the Defense Production Act and wire fraud. Lipsitz allegedly sold personal protective equipment (PPE) and other health and medical materials, some of which were designated as scarce due...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Michael Shore, 35, of Richboro, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 180 months in prison, lifetime supervised release, a prohibition on contact with any of his victims or their families, and a lifetime restriction on his Internet usage by United...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal complaint unsealed last week charges the owner of a Utah trucking company with submitting a fraudulent loan application to get a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan of $210,000 through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Attempted to Avoid Government Regulation by Selling Products Through a Company They Deceptively Named Genesis II Church.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Florida, has been sentenced in federal court to 41 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by a two-year term of supervised release, and ordered to pay $962,840.47 on his conviction of conspiracy to pass counterfeit checks and possession of stolen mail, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two men - one from New Jersey and the other from Florida - have been sentenced in federal court on their convictions for violating federal drug laws related to their trafficking of kilograms of cocaine from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) announced a Request for Information (RFI) to solicit views on safeguarding the bulk-power system (BPS) supply chain from threats and vulnerabilities.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the decision by a federal appeals court to uphold a federal district court's decision to place the grizzly bear in Wyoming back on the Endangered Species List.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.’s (D-NJ) remarks as prepared for delivery for today’s Full Committee hearing titled, “Addressing the Urgent Needs of Our Tribal Communities:"
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania upholding the Trump Administration’s rules allowing employers to deny health insurance coverage for birth control...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Bureau of Land Management Alaska welcomes the addition of seven new Resource Advisory Council (RAC) Members. Final approval letters were sent from the Secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt, in June appointing the members to three-year terms.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) wrote to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Acting Director Russell T. Vought today requesting an explanation for President...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Rayvaughn Williams was arrested today on a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Brooklyn charging him with the attempted robbery of the Canarsie Plaza Pharmacy in Brooklyn during which an employee of the pharmacy was repeatedly stabbed. Vaughn’s initial appearance is scheduled for this afternoon via video conference before United States Magistrate Judge Roanne L. Mann.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Gunnison, Colo. - Current and forecasted weather, coupled with dry conditions have prompted the BLM’s Gunnison Field Office to implement fire restrictions on BLM-managed lands in all of Gunnison County effective July 10. This is in addition to restrictions that were put in place on BLM-managed lands...
