News from July 2020
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate passed S. 383, the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies (USE IT) Act, as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Reaches Settlement with Bank of America to Resolve Claims of Disability Discrimination and Compensate Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two Berkeley County residents were indicted this week on drug charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 22, 2020, U.S. District Judge William C. Griesbach sentenced Colin H. Coffin (age: 26) to five years’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised release after Coffin pled guilty to two counts of Possessing a Firearm as a Convicted Felon, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1).
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced Michael Brown, Jr., age 34, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 180 months in federal prison following his convictions for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton man today admitted unlawfully possessing a semi-automatic rifle during the course of an attempted sale to another individual, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA. - A Strawberry Plains, Tennessee woman, who billed Virginia Medicaid for services that were not completed, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to three years of probation, including three months of house arrest, and 200 hundred hours of community service, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Gunnison, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is lifting fire restrictions on BLM-administered lands in Gunnison County effective Friday, July 24, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KEVIN GENIS, 27, of Stamford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two Project Guardian defendants appeared in federal court this week on gun charges, according to United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Some abandoned mines are hard to reach. Take, for example, the Elk Park Mine, located near Molas Pass in the San Juan National Forest of southwestern Colorado. The mine is not accessible by vehicle and requires a 6-mile hike on the Colorado Trail from the Molas Lake parking lot.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
Release: Projects to Benefit Medicine, Industrial Applications, and Security
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester man and a Rehoboth woman have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston on sex trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Richard Earl Jenkins, Jr. (43, Jacksonville) with three counts of production of child pornography. If convicted, Jenkins faces a minimum mandatory term of 15 years, and up to 30 years, in federal prison for each count.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2020
News Release: Mr. President, I’m going to get into the substance of my colleague’s argument in a moment, but I just want to be clear to all the people in America. The 30 million plus who are having problems making rent, having problems buying groceries, who in just two days, two days, come Saturday, are going to be...
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: 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: Used fraudulent checks to bilk Kroger and other retail stores out of over $300,000.
