News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A multi-year, multi-agency effort targeting violent crime in Louisville has resulted in a significant number of arrests and federal charges for the armed distribution of deadly drugs including fentanyl in the city, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - Robert L. Hudson, 36, of West Carrolton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 192 months in prison for receiving child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: PAGE, Ariz. - The Bureau of Reclamation urges those recreating on or along the Colorado River through Glen and Grand canyons to exercise increased caution as possible sudden fluctuations in water releases to meet summer energy demands may cause rapid changes to the river’s flow. The National Park Service, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Pacira Pharmaceuticals Inc. will pay $3.5 million to resolve allegations that it paid kickbacks to doctors in the form of bogus research grants to induce them to prescribe its analgesic EXPAREL, Attorney for the United States Rachael A. Honig announced today. The allegations arose from a whistleblower suit filed under the False Claims Act.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint against First Fruits Holdings LLC, doing business as Four...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - In advance of Floor consideration this week, the House Appropriations Committee released a division-by-division summary of the second minibus of fiscal year 2021 appropriations bills. The House is expected to consider the legislation,, beginning this week.
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 $23 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 Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - Robert L. Hudson, 36, of West Carrolton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 192 months in prison for receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maine is proud to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This landmark legislation was signed into law on July 26, 1990, and is the...
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: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Jenifer Adriana Lopez-Ramirez, age 22, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced to serve 228 months (19 years) in federal prison for six bank robberies and use of a firearm during and in relation to crimes of violence. Following her prison term...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois announced today that, as part of continued efforts to enforce the Americans with Disabilities Act, it has reached a settlement with Midwest Plastic Surgery in Hinsdale to resolve claims of discrimination against a 47-year-old woman with HIV.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Trump Administration will award more than $273 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to 41 states and the District of Columbia, American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Palau, and Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: Concord, NH - Early July’s featured “Fugitive of the Week," Ricky Alan Davis Jr. self-surrendered to the Strafford County Sheriff’s Office yesterday. Mr. Davis was being sought on multiple outstanding arrest warrants issued by Strafford County and New Hampshire Parole Board. These warrants included a bail violation for the alleged 2nd degree assault by strangulation and a parole warrant stemming from his original conviction and sentence for armed robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Timothy Feliciano, 34, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possessing with intent to distribute crack cocaine, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A multi-year, multi-agency effort targeting violent crime in Louisville has resulted in a significant number of arrests and federal charges for the armed distribution of deadly drugs including fentanyl in the city, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Joshua Cordell Lee Williams, 19, of Xenia, Ohio, with murder in relation to firearms and drugs charges stemming from a January 2020 homicide in Wilmington in an indictment returned here today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: I’ve said this before and I will say it again: the U.S. must reaffirm its commitment to significant reform at the WTO and move to revitalize the organization that advances the cause of free and fair global trade in the modern economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Luis Matos, age 31, of Syracuse, was sentenced today to serve 60 months in federal prison for his possession of four (4) firearms as a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, John B. DeVito, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - In a first for the (SWMF) at the Savannah River Site (SRS), employees completed equipment tests virtually, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
