News from July 2020
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
Release: Contents. Acknowledgements. About the Council. About the President’s Interagency Task Force. Introduction. What is Human Trafficking?. Underserved Populations Committee. Survivor-Informed Leadership Committee. Council Trips to Colorado and Ohio. Priority Issues. Reflections Since 2016 and Moving Forward. Conclusion...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A fugitive wanted for trafficking methamphetamine in Florida was sentenced to 235 months in prison today after he was caught by Georgia State Patrol (GSP) troopers transporting nearly three kilos of methamphetamine on I-75, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - In keeping with the Bureau of Land Management’s commitment to being a good neighbor while responsibly developing our natural resources, the Carlsbad Field Office is initiating a 30-day public scoping period beginning July 29, 2020 to gather input regarding the preparation of an Environmental...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Harrisburg - U.S. Attorney David J. Freed recognizes the 30th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush on July 26, 1990. At the signing ceremony, President Bush stated the ADA “signals the end to the unjustified segregation and exclusion of persons with disabilities from the mainstream of American life.".
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: (DICKINSON, N.D.) - The Bureau of Land Management announced its efforts today to begin a public process to revise the 32-year-old management plan governing the agency’s oversight of public lands in North Dakota. When completed, the revised Resource Management Plan will provide updated goals, objectives...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Before and after views: the landscape around EM’s Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) continues to show signs of progress. Inland Asphalt, part of CRH Group, a subcontractor to WTP contractor Bechtel National Inc., is paving roads and parking lots around the future...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Utah resident Gordon H. Pedersen has been indicted for posing as a medical doctor to sell a baseless treatment for coronavirus (COVID-19). According to the indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Salt Lake City late last week, Pedersen fraudulently promoted and sold ingestible silver-based products as a cure for COVID-19 despite having no evidence that his products could treat or cure the disease.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: A former contracting officer with the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) (now known as the U.S. Agency for Global Media) pleaded guilty today to conspiring to engage in a bribery scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Demarcus Deon Booker, 34, of Lexington, was sentenced to six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Yates, North Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on July 27, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Liodam Gonzalez, 28, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to unlawful possession of a machine gun and possession of an unregistered firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Mississippi - Reshun Goudy, 24, of Collins, Mississippi, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Brad Byerley with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing focused on the development of carbon removal technologies in the United States. Murkowski also highlighted the introduction of the CREATE Act , a new bill she is cosponsoring to establish an executive committee at the National Science and Technology Council to coordinate interagency efforts on carbon removal research and development.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Larceny.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Organization tied to CJNG cartel smuggled and distributed meth and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 31-year-old Vidor, Texas man has been sentenced for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - KJL Consultants Inc., doing business as Luke’s Yreka Drug, and owner Lucas Walsh have agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve allegations that the pharmacy committed multiple violations of the Controlled Substances Act’s strict recordkeeping requirements, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND-Kristopher Meacham, 29, of Gary, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Theresa L. Springmann following his plea of guilty to transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $5.4 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 that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Connecticut.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell today sentenced Eric Manuel Robles Rivera (45, Orlando) to 33 months in federal prison for possessing heroin with the intent to distribute it. Robles Rivera had pleaded guilty on April 23, 2020.
