News published on Federal Newswire in July 2020

News from July 2020


U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $400,000 in CARES Act Funding to Boost Economic Development Programs Critical to Helping Southside Virginia Region Respond to Coronavirus

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Southside Planning District Commission, South Hill, Virginia, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.


News Release: Maxwell is Alleged to Have Facilitated, Participated in Acts of Abuse.


Payne County Man Sentenced to More Than 10 Years for Possession of Multiple Firearms and Ammunition

News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - BRANDON TODD HATCHETT, 46, of Ripley, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 130 months in prison for possessing seven firearms and ammunition after having been previously convicted of a felony, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.


Howe Man Sentenced To 36 Months Probation, $150,000 Restitution For Conversion Of Mortgaged Property

News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Ronald Justin Johnson, age 38, of Howe, Oklahoma was sentenced to 3 years of probation and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $150,117.68 for Conversion Of Mortgaged Property, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 658. The charges arose from an investigation by the United States Department of Agriculture - Office of Inspector General (“OIG").


News Release: Hot Springs, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Jacob Anzaldua, age 39, of Glenwood, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 180 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for one count of being a Felon In Possession of a Firearm. The Honorable Chief Judge Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Hot Springs.


Chairwoman Maloney Releases Memo with New Information on Trump Administration’s Failure to Lead on PPE

News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a memo to Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Chairman Rep. James E. Clyburn summarizing discussions between Committee staff and representatives of six large medical equipment distribution companies that are playing a role in the Trump Administration’s response to the coronavirus crisis.


News Release: Second Federal Seizure Warrant Was Unsealed in Federal Court Today.


Levy County Man Sentenced To 19 Years In Prison For "Sextortion" of Washington Teen And Possession Of Child Pornography

News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Dustin Lee Norman, 23, of Trenton, Florida, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison after pleading guilty on March 3, 2020, to Sexual Exploitation of a Child, Possessing Child Pornography, and Sending Interstate Transmissions of Extortionate Communications. The Court also ordered...


Violent Convicted Felon Given 7 Year Sentence for Repeatedly Possessing a Firearm and Shooting at an Elderly Woman

News Release: MEMPHIS, TN -Kerrell Jackson, 33, has been sentenced to 84 months imprisonment for being a convicted felon illegally possessing a firearm. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.


News Release: MUSKOGEE, Okla.- The DEA Dallas Field Division in partnership with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced the sentencing of Muskogee residents, Derrick Christopher Segue, age 26, to 65 months imprisonment and three years supervised release, and Klawaun Lynell...


Three men indicted for conspiracy to submit fraudulent tax refund claims for fictitious business entities

News Release: Justin Herdman, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland has returned a four-count indictment charging Brandon R. Mace, age 43, of Youngstown, Terris Chanley Baker, age 49, of Canton and Robert J. Rohrbaugh II, age 46, of...


Pallone, Grijalva, Gallego, Udall, Murray  Raise Concerns about Tribes Being Denied Access to Critical Federal COVID-19 Data

News Release: Today, U.S. Representatives Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), chair of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples, ​U.S. Senators Tom...


Fire Restrictions Barring Charcoal Grills and Campfires Now In Effect

News Release: Beginning 7/1/2020, all campfires and charcoal grills will not be permitted for use inside Pinnacles National Park, as a result of increased fire danger. Smoking on trails is also prohibited.


Wyden Statement on the June Jobs Report

News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the June jobs report...


U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $365,000 in CARES Act Funding to Boost Economic Development Programs Critical to Helping the Northern Neck Region of Virginia Respond to Coronavirus

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $365,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Northern Neck Planning District Commission, Warsaw, Virginia, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.


News Release: CHICAGO - Three men have been charged in federal court with attempting to steal cash from an automated-teller machine in downtown Aurora.


News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), vice chairman on the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and U.S. Representatives Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.), chair of the House Energy...


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, joined his colleagues in introducing a resolution in support of the U.S. Postal Service. The Coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic crisis have led to serious financial...


Senator Murray: DeVos and Trump Ignoring Public Education Emergency with New School Privatization Proposal

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on reports that the White House will release a proposal to advance their ideological privatization agenda, including direct funding to private schools and a national tax credit scholarship proposal, or their so called “Education Freedom Scholarship."


News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Rungrot Phimthong, 26, of Rush, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to possession of child pornography involving prepubescent minors. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.