News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Scott Korn, 57, of Villanova, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, three years of supervised release and a $50,000 fine by United States District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno for false statements and financial fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman John Lewis (D-GA) urged the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to promptly address the myriad issues regarding economic impact payments (EIPs) and to ensure Americans receive their full EIPs in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: UTICA, NEW YORK - Oscar Manuel Grego Costa, age 46, a Portuguese citizen living in Newark, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison, to be followed by a 3-year period of supervised release, for bringing an illegal alien into the United States from Canada and attempting to bring the alien...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: The Census Bureau today released new data from the experimental Household Pulse Survey. The Household Pulse Survey is the result of an effort by the Census Bureau and other federal statistical agencies to document temporal trends in how individuals are experiencing business curtailment and closures, stay-at-home orders, school closures, changes in the availability of consumer goods and consumer patterns, and other abrupt and significant changes to American life.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced John Butler, age 31, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 78 months in federal prison following his convictions for possession with the intent to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: The Speaker of the House has taken a “My Way or the Highway" approach to infrastructure, and today the House is expected to vote on the highly partisan H.R. 2. Instead of seeking bipartisan solutions, this bill adds $1.5 trillion dollars to the Nation’s debt and disguises a heavy-handed and unworkable Green New Deal regime of new requirements as an “infrastructure bill."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn today announced that Michael John Suppes, age 46, of Weld County, Colorado, pleaded guilty earlier this week to smuggling gun parts out of the United States and possessing unregistered firearms. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) joined in this announcement.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated three Mississippi counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson counties who suffered losses due to recent drought, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Carthage, Missouri, husband and wife have pleaded guilty in federal court to their involvement in a four-year-long scheme to embezzle from a Joplin, Missouri, business owner.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated five Oklahoma counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Beaver, Blaine, Dewey, Kingfisher, and Major counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: Democrat Governor Warns Extending Unemployment Benefits Will “Discourage Work".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man was arrested today for his alleged role in an investment scheme that fraudulently obtained $1.525 million from at least three families from 2017 through 2019, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: Washington - Today, The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) enters into force, replacing the decades-old NAFTA. USMCA is a better deal for America’s farmers, consumers and workers that will set them up for success for decades to come. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue penned an oped...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: EVANSVILLE - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler and High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Director Chuck Porucznik announce the addition of Vanderburgh County to the Indiana HIDTA.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: “Thank you, Madame Speaker. “Republicans support children, seniors, and patients with pre-existing conditions. “We created the popular Children Health Insurance Program that millions of families rely on today. “We created the prescription drug program in Medicare to help seniors get the medicine...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Richard Stephen Terry (56) to 10 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for attempting to entice a child to engage in sexual activity. Terry also possessed child pornography and has agreed to pay restitution to the victims depicted. Terry had pleaded guilty on Feb. 27, 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
Release: PHILADELPHIA - Days before the start of the Independence Day holiday weekend, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced the agency’s new “Stay Healthy. Stay Secure." campaign. The campaign focuses on airport checkpoint modifications to help contain the spread of COVID-19, comply with CDC guidelines and support healthy and secure summer travel to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: Three Former Hilo Correctional Officers Indicted for Assaulting an Inmate and Attempting to Cover it Up.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Bourne man was arrested today and charged with receipt and possession of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Ways and Means member Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) wrote U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Eugene Scalia to express their concern over the Florida unemployment system’s failure during the COVID-19 crisis...
