News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Sunday, July 26, 2020, marked the 30thAnniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (the ADA), a critical civil rights law that aims to eliminate discrimination against people with disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: Brandon Frere Was Arrested At SFO While Attempting to Leave the Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A Mattoon, Ill., man, Tyler L. Foote, 29, described by the government as an avid collector of extremely violent child pornography, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison. Senior U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm further ordered that Foote remain on supervised release for a period of 10 years following completion of his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: Winnemucca, Nev. - On July 22, lightning ignited the Osgood wildfire on Bureau of Land Management lands approximately 2 miles west of Getchell Mine. Despite prompt reporting by personnel from the Turquoise Ridge mine to Central Nevada Interagency Dispatch Center (CNIDC), the Osgood Fire had spread quickly due to high winds from passing thunderstorms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that 10 defendants pleaded guilty during June and July 2020, to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, five grams or more of methamphetamine before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of the Dominican Republic pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday, July 27, 2020, to violations of the federal narcotics and immigration laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 27, 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 Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failing to meet their contractual obligations...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Nearly four months after the first economic impact payment (EIP) was disbursed, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) urged the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to resolve all outstanding taxpayer-specific issues and immediately send these Americans their payments.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $8.6 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 Washington state.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Claimed She Flew To New York City For Treatments And Pocketed Over $50,000 in Online Donations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former co-owner of a New Jersey marketing company today admitted her role in a scheme to defraud public and private health benefits programs of at least $8.8 million for the billing of medically unnecessary compounded prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced Carlos Eduardo Hampton (23, Cocoa) to eight years and one month in federal prison for robbery and for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Hampton had pleaded guilty on Jan. 30, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following the Senate GOP’s release of the HEALS Act, which cuts emergency federal unemployment benefits, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) asked the Department of Labor (DOL) for information to better understand the potential burden on workers stuck in state unemployment offices’ processing backlogs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced Jeron Cantrell Martin (38, Belleview) to three years and eight months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The court also ordered Martin to forfeit the semi-automatic pistol and ammunition used to commit the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Independence, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Obed Torres Garcia, 23, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and one kilogram or more of heroin, and using, carrying and discharging firearm during and in relation to a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Troy Jackson, age 43, of Syracuse, was sentenced today to serve 46 months in prison for his conviction for participating in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Tameshwar Ammar, a former medical doctor in Roslyn, New York, pleaded guilty via teleconference to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone. Ammar was indicted in November 2019. On June 22, 2020, he relinquished his license to practice medicine. Today’s...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $2.5 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to eight EDA Economic Development District and Native American organizations across Wisconsin to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $11.4 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 adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic across Wisconsin.
