News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: Seth D. DuCharme, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, this week marked the 30th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). Since President George H.W. Bush signed the Act into law on July 26, 1990, the ADA has transformed society-by replacing exclusion with access, segregation with integration, and limitations with self-determination.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement on House Democrats’ attempt to undermine the Supreme Court by blocking funding to enforce the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule on religious and moral objections to contraceptive coverage.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DR. ANDREW J. VAN ATTA, age 37, from Wasilla, Alaska, was sentenced today to three years of probation for a fraudulent scheme in which VAN ATTA impersonated other doctors while submitting paid surveys.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed, on a 217 to 197 vote, a package of fiscal year 2021 appropriations bills. The package consists of six bills that fund federal departments including Defense, Commerce, Justice, Energy, Treasury Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development from Oct. 1, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. -- Joel Bellegarde, 30, of Doral, Florida, was arrested and charged with wire fraud, mail fraud, and aggravated identity theft, for submitting fraudulent claims for unemployment benefits to the State of Oklahoma, benefits which were intended for Oklahoma residents who had lost their jobs due to the economic impact of COVID-19.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, released a staff report based on new documents detailing the Trump Administration’s failures to supply ventilators during the coronavirus crisis and squandering of more than $500 million in taxpayer funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - The owner of several Illinois nursing homes has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly skimming money from federally insured facilities that had defaulted on mortgage loans to pay expenses of a non-federally insured facility.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement on House Democrats’ attempt to undermine the Supreme Court by blocking funding to enforce the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule on religious and moral objections to contraceptive coverage.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky.- A Montgomery County, Ky., man, Scotty Allen Jones, 48, pleaded guilty yesterday, before U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove, to distributing a fentanyl and heroin mixture, possessing 10 grams of acetylfentanyl with intent to distribute, possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GARY W. BORNMAN, 58, of New Haven, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today to two counts of bank robbery and admitted that he violated the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - A Butler County man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to making a false statement in connection with the acquisition of the firearm used in killing Dayton Police Detective and DEA Task Force Officer Jorge DelRio on Nov. 4, 2019, during the execution of a search warrant on Ruskin Road in Dayton.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failing to meet their contractual obligations...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: KINGMAN, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Kingman Field Office invites the public to provide input on a Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) remediation project at the Minnesota-Connor Mine and Mill site, located on BLM-managed public land near Chloride in Mohave County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Dustin Red Legs age 41, of Eagle Butte, South Dakota, was found guilty of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child, Sexual Exploitation of Child, and Possession of Child Pornography as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: SENTENCING - ZODERICK JACKSON. On July 20, Zoderick Jackson, 50, was sentenced to five and a half years for possession with the intent to distribute a cocaine base. Jackson package crack cocaine into eleven small baggies. He met two confidential sources at his home in Greenville, Texas where he sold...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Larry Darnell Armstrong, 50, Minneapolis, Minnesota, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to three years in federal prison for committing a robbery of a business located in River Falls, Wisconsin. The parties jointly recommended the three-year prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: Orchestrated the Straw Purchase of a Foreclosed Property for Her Own Benefit, Causing a Loss to the Bank of Approximately $145,000; Made False Statements to Bank Regulators Inquiring About Foreclosed Property.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that John Law, age 41, of Rochester, New York, was indicted on July 28, 2020, by a federal grand jury on fraud charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Keith and thank you to the Commission for the important work you are doing on behalf of the Department. It is an honor to be here today to provide testimony on the importance of respect for law enforcement and the rule of law in our country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Tra Lott, 27, has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of firearms. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
