News from July 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Boston, removed an illegally present Irish national July 20, who was convicted of participation in the 1993 bombing of a Northern Irish police station.
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 USDA Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, July 23, 2020-The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced its 2020 awardees of the Agriculture Research Service's 1890 Faculty Research Sabbatical Program. The program, established in 2015 to honor the 125th anniversary of 1890 Land-Grant Universities, gives opportunities for tenure- and research-track faculty at historically black land-grant universities to collaborate with ARS laboratories across the nation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.5 million grant to the Port of South Louisiana, Laplace, Louisiana, to make critical roadway infrastructure improvements to the Port’s Globalplex Intermodal Terminal, a maritime industrial park. The EDA grant, to be matched with $375,000 in local funds, is expected to create or retain 24 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against three members of the Mongolian Boys Society, charging them with conspiring to commit murder in aid of racketeering for acting as lookouts for a gang shooting that killed four, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today requested that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin report to Congress, as required by law, as to why the department violated the Antideficiency Act during the 2018-2019 federal government shutdown.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Raymond Donovan, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), Leigh-Alistair Barzey, Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Field Office of the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Elias Muhammad, 23, of Fresno, charging him with attempted possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute and two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Tyshawn Warren, age 35, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today to serve 126 months in federal prison for possessing cocaine with intent to distribute, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Kevin Kelly, Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will resume the collection of entrance fees beginning Saturday, July 25, 2020. The $25.00 park entrance pass allows everyone riding in a private vehicle to recreate in the National Lakeshore for seven days. Passes may be obtained at the Philip...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A Versailles, Kentucky, man, Timothy Wayne Wellman, 66, was sentenced in federal court on Thursday, to 12 months and one day in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Greg Van Tatenhove, after previously being convicted of 11 counts involving obstructing justice, aiding and abetting the obstruction of a federal grand jury, and aiding and abetting individuals in making false statements to the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Orlando Martinez, also known as “Bolo," 52, of Watertown, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - TIAHMO LENELL DRAINE, 47, of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to 130 months in prison for possessing heroin with intent to distribute, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Progenity Inc. Admits to Fraudulently Using Wrong Billing Code, Paying “Draw Fees" to Physicians, and Providing Meals and Happy Hours to Physicians and Their Staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On July 22, 2020, Connie S. Clabo, 54, of Sevierville, was sentenced by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that Stephen A. Byrne, 60, former Executive Vice President of SCANA, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Today, at a virtual awards ceremony, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the winners of the 2020 Marine Energy Collegiate Competition ) (MECC). Of the 14 collegiate teams that competed, DOE recognized three overall winners, who achieved the highest scores; DOE also recognized three teams for their performance in individual categories of the competition.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - In an important step toward providing access to the world class and strategically important Ambler Mining District in Northwest Alaska, the Department of the Interior has issued two decisions that authorize a right-of-way for a state of Alaska mining service road across Federally-managed...
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 Homeland Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Cyber actors have demonstrated their willingness to conduct cyber attacks against critical infrastructure by exploiting Internet-accessible Operational Technology (OT) assets. Due to the increase in adversary capabilities and activities, the criticality to U.S. national security and way...
