News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - A Delaware man pleaded guilty today to wire fraud in connection with false representations that he made in a final report to the United States Air Force.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - In support of President Donald J. Trump’s America-First Energy Strategy, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced proposed revisions to three key regulations governing oversight of oil and gas production and reporting. The proposed regulations are designed to reduce burdensome bureaucracy, redundant recordkeeping and measurement requirements, while ensuring that taxpayers receive accurate royalties from oil and gas produced on Federal and Tribal lands.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Austria’s Jewish population numbered about 192,000 when Nazi Germany annexed the country in March 1938. Between 1938 and 1940, approximately 117,000 Jews fled Austria to countries across the world, including some that would later be occupied by Nazi Germany or were members of the Axis. By November ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A parolee caught with a stolen firearm was sentenced to federal prison this morning for his crime, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Tyler Pang, 20, of Honolulu, received a sentence of five years imprisonment from United States District Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi today for possessing child pornography. The defendant also must register as a sex offender in the jurisdiction(s) where he resides, is employed, or is a student.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Other Executives Charged and Sentenced for Participation in Same Construction Kickback Scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed, the Child Care for Economic Recovery Act, legislation to expand the availability of quality child care, help workers return to their jobs when it is safe, and enable America’s economy to recover from the COVID-19 recession.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A Busby man who admitted striking a woman with a baseball bat and his fists last year on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation was sentenced today to three years and 10 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the filing of federal charges against 12 individuals in Operation Dead Ringer. The individuals are charged in 11 separate cases, with cumulatively stealing more than $700,000 in benefits paid by the Social Security Administration on behalf of beneficiaries who were actually deceased. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of 10 years’ imprisonment on each count.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Following House passage of the Child Care is Essential Act, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement urging her Senate Republican colleagues to include the $50 billion bill...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Gary Peters, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Tom Carper (D-DE), and U.S. Representatives Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman on the Subcommittee...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A 33-year-old man wanted by authorities in his home country on embezzlement charges was apprehended by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), July 28.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A Decatur man pled guilty today to filing a false tax return, announced United States Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations Special Agent in Charge James E. Dorsey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that today that Timothy J. Chowaniec, 62, of West Seneca, NY, was arrested and charged by complaint with possessing with the intent distribute, and distributing, five grams of more of methamphetamine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, and a maximum of 40 years.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Researchers with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Wildlife Services (WS) program recently applied for a patent (U.S. Patent Application No. 16/668,253) for a new vehicle-based lighting system to prevent deer-vehicle collisions during low-light conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal grand jury today indicted two persons for kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap a minor victim, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, Chair of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations slammed the Senate’s proposed coronavirus relief legislation announced on Monday for its lack of funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Thank you, M/ Speaker. I rise today with great sadness to say a few words on the life of my friend and colleague, John Lewis. John was the bravest, yet most gentle person I ever met. He nearly lost his life in pursuit of justice and confronted some of the darkest facets of our society, but he never...
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Malta remained a British colony and Allied naval stronghold throughout World War II, besieged but never captured by Axis forces, and consequently there are no known cases of Jewish property having been confiscated or wrongfully seized during the Holocaust era. Representatives of the Maltese ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that MARLON TORRES-HERRERA, an El Salvadorian national, age 50, was sentenced to credit for time served on a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a) by U.S. District...
