News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Tyo, 32, of Liverpool, NY, pleaded guilty to two counts of bank robbery and one count of attempted bank robbery, before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: FBI Cleveland Announces Arrest in Child Sex Crimes Case.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that this week marks the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (the ADA), the landmark civil rights law that aims to eliminate discrimination against people with disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: A superseding indictment was returned today in federal court in Central Islip, New York, charging Genaro Garcia Luna, the former Secretary of Public Security in Mexico from 2006 to 2012, with engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise. Luis Cardenas Palomino and Ramon Pequeno Garcia, former high-ranking...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Camdenton, Missouri, man with a history of predatory financial crimes against women was sentenced in federal court today for a $78,000 fraud scheme in which he used his victim’s credit cards without authorization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jack Carl Rice, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 57 months incarceration for a child pornography charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.5 million grant to the Milwaukee Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to establish a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) in support of...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has indicted the Ohio Speaker of the House in a federal racketeering conspiracy involving approximately $60 million paid to a 501(c)(4) entity to pass and uphold a billion-dollar nuclear plant bailout. The 43-page indictment was returned on July 29 and filed today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has indicted a victim’s ex-girlfriend and four of her associates for conspiring and attempting to kidnap her ex-boyfriend and his girlfriend. The indictment was filed today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A grand jury in Kansas City, Kan., returned kidnapping charges Wednesday against six defendants, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Settles with School District to Resolve Disability Discrimination Complaint.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Teacher carjacked in Indianapolis after Wisconsin crime spree and held captive for hours.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Joseph D. Sonnier, 31, of Gautier, Mississippi, has been charged in an indictment, returned by a Federal Grand Jury on July 28, 2020, with four counts of assault on an officer or employee of the government, one count of felon in possession of a firearm and four counts of discharging...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Sean Michael Fujiwara, 43, of Kailua, Hawaii, was charged on July 28, 2020 by federal complaint with sending threatening interstate communications. Fujiwara has been remanded to federal custody pending further proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance, Felon in Possession of a Firearm, and Possession of Stolen Firearms.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Plainville man was arrested yesterday and charged with attempted enticement of a minor.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 26-year-old man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute meth in the Houston area, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Steven S. Whipple, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.

By DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Named after the small, southeastern Utah town that lies a couple miles to its west, the Mexican Hat, Utah, Disposal Site - currently licensed to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) for long-term stewardship - is located on the Navajo Nation, sitting just off U.S. 163...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Guard Profited more than $40K by Distributing Cell Phones, Tobacco.

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: The Finance Committee is focusing this week on issues dealing with the lack of high-quality PPE and other equipment during the pandemic.