News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A Fresno business owner was arraigned today for a scheme to defraud the customers of his classic car business, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: PITTSBURGH - The Transportation Security Administration officers at Pittsburgh International Airport are using new technology that validates a traveler’s identification and confirms their flight information in near real time.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Today, the expansion of Operation Legend was announced in Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee. Operation Legend is a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight violent crime. The Operation was first launched on July 8 in Kansas City, Missouri, and expanded on July 22, 2020, to Chicago and Albuquerque.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $15 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Northern California.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - The former director of Dayton’s Minority Business Assistance Center was sentenced via videoconference in U.S. District Court today to six months in prison and two years of supervised release for accepting a thing of value in connection with a local government.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Travis W. Fennel, 32, of Pass Christian, Mississippi, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to one count of possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of illegal narcotics, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and ATF Special-Agent-in-Charge Kurt Thielhorn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Reward for information on homicide of Eric Hakizimana.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic fallout have exposed America's broken health care system once again. Countless patients are returning home from the hospital with no knowledge of the devastating medical bills awaiting them. And employers face new, COVID-induced health care costs at the same time their revenues have come under pressure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Timothy Cessor, age 27, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was convicted on July 29, 2020 of making a threat against the President of the United States following a three-day jury trial in federal court, in Omaha, Nebraska. United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. scheduled the sentencing for Oct. 23, 2020. Cessor faces up to five years’ imprisonment.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Nazi Germany occupied the Netherlands from 1940 to 1945. The Germans installed a civil regime, while the Dutch set up a government-in-exile in London. The occupying force implemented what has come to be described as “looting by decree" of Jewish property in the Netherlands. In the period from ...
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. Israel is strongly committed to upholding the tenets of the 2009 Terezin Declaration on Holocaust-Era Assets. Israeli law requires the government to seek out Holocaust survivors and their heirs and to help return Holocaust-era assets to their rightful owners. Through the Office of the Custodian ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Travis W. Fennel, 32, of Pass Christian, Mississippi, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to one count of possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of illegal narcotics, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and ATF Special-Agent-in-Charge Kurt Thielhorn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Rico Laneaux, 38, of Bay St. Louis, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to serve 96 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Brad Byerley with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Judge Guirola also ordered Laneaux to pay a $15,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: MIDLAND, TX - Today, President Donald J. Trump announced during his speech in Midland, TX that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is issuing a final policy statement that allows for liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to non-free trade agreement (non-FTA) countries to be extended through the year 2050. This policy is a change from the current practice of granting 20-year export terms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: University of Arkansas Professor Indicted for Wire Fraud and Passport Fraud.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. An early ally of Nazi Germany, the newly independent Slovakia joined the Axis powers in 1940 after declaring independence from Czechoslovakia in 1939. In 1942, Slovakia became the first Axis partner to consent to the deportation of its Jewish residents. According to a December 1940 census cited ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the arrest today of FRANCIS HUGHES. HUGHES, 65, a pastor at a religious institution...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of narcotics trafficking in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Manhattan Project National Historical Park, in partnership with the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge, will feature a photography exhibit titled: A Girl’s Perspective. The photography exhibit is located in the Imagination Gallery of the museum, located at 461 West Outer Drive, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-A West Memphis man was sentenced today to 250 months in federal prison for his involvement in a methamphetamine conspiracy. Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced that Karlen Ingram, 38, was sentenced as part of Operation Money Don’t Sleep, which targets drug trafficking in West Memphis and the surrounding areas.
