News from July 2020
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: 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 DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today issued the following statements after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its Record of Decision (ROD) for the Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Road project (Ambler Road).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Residents of multiple states were arrested today in connection with four indictments for drug conspiracies that traveled across New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Dear Park Constituent, The National Park Service (NPS) is considering improving the visitor experience at Mossy Cave in Bryce Canyon National Park and is initiating a 14 -day comment period to request your feedback on possible improvements. Some of our initial thoughts are provided below. The information...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Amos Blanks, 40, of Hattiesburg, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Special Agent in Charge Brad Byerley with the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF").
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Valerie Chu and Paul Starita (619) 546-6750/7701.
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 $3.3 million grant to the Southern Illinois Airport Authority, Carbondale, Illinois, to construct an additional hangar at Southern Illinois Airport to house aerospace-focused workforce training programs. The EDA grant, to be matched with $829,879 in local investment, is expected to create more than 60 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Residents of multiple states were arrested today in connection with four indictments for drug conspiracies that traveled across New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced today that Steven Kotsonis (38), a medical doctor of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, was sentenced in federal district court to 12 months and 1 day of confinement for unlawfully distributing Oxycodone outside of a professional medical practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose. The conviction resulted from Kotsonis executing a drug-trafficking conspiracy and pill mill operation, motivated by greed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Boston Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have partnered with AARP to educate senior citizens in Massachusetts about COVID-19 scams and other fraud targeting the aging population.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal complaint unsealed this week charges a third individual with one count of arson for allegedly setting fire to a Salt Lake City Police Department vehicle during May 30, 2020, riots in Salt Lake City.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: The USMCA entered into force on July 1, and I am eager to see the modernized agreement deliver on its promise to spur job growth for American farmers, workers, businesses and innovators as well as create new opportunities with our North American trading partners.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on Tuesday, July 14, 2020, United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger sentenced Jimmy Joe Gappa, age 27, of Council Bluffs, to 63 months in prison for felon and drug user in possession of a firearm. Gappa was ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 35-year-old St. Petersburg, Florida woman has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking crimes in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: In Del Rio today, a federal complaint was unsealed against 29-year-old Leeroy Felan for providing false information to federal agents and assisting arsonists in evading arrest, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and U.S. Marshal Susan Pamerleau. Deputy U.S. Marshals arrested Felan in Carrizo Springs on July 21, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Terence Dewayne Dixon has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to advertise child pornography. Dixon ran a Kik chat group that he named “House of 1000 Littles." In 2018, the chat group involved more than 20 members from around the world who talked about and traded child pornography on a daily basis before the group was shut down in October 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Hasher Jallal Taheb has been sentenced for attempting an attack upon the White House. Taheb also planned attacks on the Statue of Liberty, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, and a synagogue.
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: FRESNO, 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 Fresno returned indictments in the following cases involving illegal firearms offenses.
