News from July 2020
By Commerce News Now | Jul 23, 2020
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on July 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – One year after announcing the launch of the Non-Traditional and Emerging Transportation Technology (NETT) Council, U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today released Pathways to the Future of Transportation – a policy document that is intended to serve as a roadmap for innovators of new cross modal technologies to engage with the Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Alleges Excessive Force in Alabama’s Prisons for Men Violates the Constitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BARBARA J. BUCHANAN, 60, of Shelton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for embezzling more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Eighteen individuals from Massachusetts and elsewhere were charged in a superseding indictment unsealed today in federal court in Boston on charges related to a wide-ranging fentanyl, heroin, crack, and cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA - A Big Arm man accused of making child pornography videos and sending an image to an undercover agent today pleaded guilty to charges, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Former Member of the 3rd Special Forces Group at Ft. Bragg.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two men appeared in federal court this week for gun crimes committed in Charleston, according to United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., Buffalo Police Commissioner Byron Lockwood, and Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded the Buffalo Police Department a 2020 Project Safe Neighborhood grant totaling $229,837. The funding will be used to implement a Shoot Review Process in the police department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Terrance Chipp, 42, of Rutland was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Geoffrey Crawford to 72 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release, which follows the term of imprisonment.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: On July 22, a WWI-era unexploded ordnance was discovered during construction work on a park trail. Out of an abundance of caution and until more research can be completed, an area of Fort Totten Park, in the Michigan Park neighborhood, is closed, and the National Park Service (NPS) is urging people to stay out of the area.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a man July 16 wanted by the country of Peru for raping a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States has filed a complaint to forfeit $2,372,793 associated with four companies, announced the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Michael R. Sherwin, Emmerson Buie, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Chicago Field Office, and Steven Cagen, Special Agent in Charge of the HSI Denver Field Office.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Chairman David Scott provided the following statement during the House Agriculture Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Subcommittee Hearing on farm energy productions and their impact on income and rural communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: The Internal Revenue Service wrapped up its annual ‘Dirty Dozen’ list of tax scams with a special emphasis on aggressive and evolving schemes related to coronavirus tax relief, including Economic Impact Payments. The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri urge taxpayers to be vigilant to these tax scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Special Inspector General John F. Sopko, of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (“SIGAR"), and Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd sentenced Darnell Pearson, 42, of Fresno, today to 30 years in prison for two counts of distribution of fentanyl resulting in death and serious bodily injury, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, Missouri -United States District Judge Ronnie L. White sentenced Jeremy L. Cawthon, 38, of St. Charles, to 16 months of time already served for threatening U.S. Senator Josh Hawley through Facebook communications. Cawthon has been confined in the St. Louis County Jail for the past 16 months after being criminally charged on April 5, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Glenn Doyle Beach, 47, of Sumrall, Mississippi and Hope Thomley, 53, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett for conspiring to commit health care fraud and conspiring to commit money laundering and tax evasion. Judge Starrett also sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando Valley man was arraigned this afternoon after being arrested Wednesday night on a series of weapons charges and a drug trafficking offense that alleges he possessed about 3.8 kilograms of heroin for sale.
