News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Thomas Robbins, 65, of Heber City pleaded guilty to securities fraud and money laundering in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City Wednesday afternoon, admitting he induced victims to invest in a fraudulent foreign currency day-trading business.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that former U.S. Congressman Michael “Ozzie" Myers, 77, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been charged by Indictment with multiple counts, including conspiring to violate voting rights by fraudulently stuffing the ballot boxes...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: One Defendant Agrees to Sentence of Ten Years in Federal Prison; Law Enforcement Seized Kilo Quantities of Drugs, Guns, and More Than $30,000 in Drug Proceeds.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Good afternoon. Today the Trade Subcommittee is holding a hearing on Trade, Manufacturing, and Critical Supply Chains: Lessons from COVID-19.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Newly declassified records illustrate how federal agents hijacked an August 2016 security briefing to surreptitiously gather information on Trump campaign officials. The covert use of security briefings by the agents leading the Russia probe was first uncovered by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama today concluded that there is reasonable cause to believe that the conditions at Alabama’s prisons for men violate the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. Specifically, the department concluded that there is reasonable cause to believe that prisoners are subjected to excessive force at the hands of prison staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: UPDATE. The government dismissed all charges alleged in the indictment described in the press release below. Four individuals have recently been charged with visa fraud in connection with a scheme to lie about their status as members of the People’s Republic of China’s military forces, the People’s...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on users of public lands, forests, and national parks. The committee received testimony from witnesses representing the outdoor recreation industry, ranchers, water providers, state wildlife agencies, and a nonprofit foundation that partners with the National Park Service.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: ANCHORAGE - Today, the Department of the Interior (Department) announced decisions for the Alaska Liquified Natural Gas (Alaska LNG) Pipeline Project, approving the issuance of rights-of-way permits across federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and National Park Service (NPS). These...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As part the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California’s strategy to reduce violent crime by focusing on firearms prosecutions, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced that a federal grand jury in Sacramento returned indictments in the following cases involving illegal firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas -A 26-year-old federal inmate has been sentenced for escaping from a Bureau of Prisons facility in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Washington Tech Executive Charged with COVID-Relief Fraud and Money Laundering.
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 $1.2 million grant to the city of Perry, Iowa, to make critical roadway infrastructure improvements to support the expansion of manufacturing businesses in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - Today, Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Leigh-Alistair Barzey, Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Field Office of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Philadelphia man and two Berkeley County residents were indicted this week on firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Rehoboth woman also indicted. BOSTON - A Dorchester man and a Rehoboth woman have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston on sex trafficking charges. Bruce Brown, a/k/a “Arki," 41, of Boston, was indicted in a second superseding indictment unsealed today in federal court. The second superseding...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on Thursday, July 16, 2020, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Kimberly Ann Jacobsen, age 54, of Omaha, to 74 months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine. Jacobsen was ordered to serve a period of supervised release of four years to follow her prison term and pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims' Fund. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky.- A Frankfort, Ky., man, Ricky Joe Cornish Jr., 33, pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday, before U.S. District Judge Gregory F. VanTatenhove, to using the internet to attempt to persuade, induce, or entice a minor to engage in sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment today against Steven Lawrence Robinson, 34, of Granite Bay, and Nathaniel Opondo Hubbert, 39, of Grass Valley, charging them with a conspiracy to possess and distribute fentanyl and other narcotics offenses, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel Comeaux announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Dina Titus (D-NV) announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “Experiences of Vulnerable Populations During Disaster."
