News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: ALBUQERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Attorney John Anderson announced today the appointment of Denise Billy to serve as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Coordinator for the District of New Mexico. Ms. Billy will be the first MMIP Coordinator under a new Department of Justice (DOJ) initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Harvard University Professor Charged with Tax Offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) highlights the first 100 days of Operation Stolen Promise with more than 500 criminal investigations, over 900 seized shipments and more than $7 million in illicit proceeds seized. HSI issues a reminder...
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 and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the opening of individual and team registration for the second annual President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition. The competition is open to any Federal Executive branch employee, including the Department of Defense and uniformed service members, with a knack for cybersecurity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Government Agencies and Banking Institutions Uncovered Over 4,000 Fraudulent Claims for Unemployment Assistance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Today, U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox joined fellow U.S. Attorneys in Texas-Ryan K. Patrick in the Southern District, Erin Nealy Cox in the Northern District and John F. Bash in the Western District-and Attorney General Ken Paxton to inform the public about several fraudulent schemes...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that Edward Thomas Schinzing, 32, has been charged by criminal complaint with using fire to maliciously damage or destroy the Justice Center in downtown Portland on May 29, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: ALBUQERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Attorney John Anderson announced today the appointment of Denise Billy to serve as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Coordinator for the District of New Mexico. Ms. Billy will be the first MMIP Coordinator under a new Department of Justice (DOJ) initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Last night, July 27, the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Sheldon Gibbs. Gibbs had warrants for his arrest out of Panola County, MS for First Degree Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 28, 2020, a federal grand jury indicted Joshua M. Lusk (age: 32) of Milwaukee, for arson and attempted arson, causing an injury to a Milwaukee Fire Department firefighter, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 844(i) and 2. The arson occurred at a residence located at 2120-2122 North 40th Street, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Good morning. I’d like to welcome everyone to the Finance Committee’s hearing on Protecting the Reliability of the U.S. Medical Supply Chain during the COVID-19 Pandemic. This is the first hearing of a series of hearings to discuss the integrity of our nation’s medical supply chain. Today, we will...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that SAVRAJ GATA-AURA (“GATA-AURA") was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison for participating in a scheme to defraud more than 800 investors of more than $40 million by making false and fraudulent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Four Alabama Corrections Officers Indicted for Using Excessive Force and Obstruction of Justice.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - Millions of dollars in new and old infrastructure needs protecting at the EM Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: What do the loopy straws that children like to sip drinks through have in common with cutting-edge science? Ask Ryan Murphy and his colleagues at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where the team has thought up a creative way to explore the properties of fluids under extreme conditions.
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 $11.8 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 Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting In Serious Bodily Injury as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota, beginning on Tuesday, July 21, 2020, and concluding on Wednesday, July 22, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Jason May, 41, of Hattiesburg, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 12 months and one day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to commit health care fraud and money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Settles Disability-Based Housing Discrimination Lawsuit with Owners and Developers of 82 Apartment Complexes in 13 States.
