News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND-Rickey Kendrick, 24, of Indianapolis, Indiana, was sentenced by Judge Philip P. Simon to 180 months in prison following his guilty plea to possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Conspirators Allegedly Paid Kickbacks to Recruit Patients to Dental Clinic in Order to Obtain Millions of Dollars in Medicaid Payments for Services Purportedly Provided to those Patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that the federal grand jury has issued an Indictment charging Bobby Ray Scott III, age 42, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, with Bank Robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2113(a) and 2113(d). Bank Robbery is punishable by not more than life imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOHN ULRICH, the former vice president of International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 812 (the “Union") and former trustee of the Union’s employee health benefit plan (the “Plan"), was sentenced today...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - The Department of Energy (DOE) has resumed active environmental cleanup at the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC), a former nuclear and liquid metals research site in Ventura County, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - William Dorsey, Jr., has been arraigned for embezzling over $200,000 from his father’s beneficiary account funded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA.).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Oleksandra Johnson (619) 546-9769.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today hailed House passage of the Great American Outdoors Act, one of Congress’ most significant investments in environmental conservation in a generation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Alexander Alazo, 42, of Middletown, Pennsylvania, and Aubrey, Texas, was indicted today by a federal grand jury, which charged him with multiple offenses related to his shooting of the Embassy of Cuba in Washington, D.C., announced Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin; Special Agent in...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on July 7, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a complaint against Bill Barton, doing business as Barton Cattle Company of Bagwell, Texas, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park to Resume Fee Operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Two members of the violent transnational criminal gang known as “La Mara Salvatrucha" or “MS-13" pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to RICO conspiracy and admitted to their participation in the July 2018 murder of a teenage boy in Lynn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady today announced the creation of a new anti-human trafficking coalition, Operation T.E.N. (Trafficking Ends Now), comprised of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies as well as non-governmental organizations.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: ST GEORGE, Utah - In order to provide for public safety and resource protection, the Bureau of Land Management’s St. George Field Office closed the Red Cliffs Recreation Area, Cottonwood Trailhead and multiple associated trails, all in the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, following damage from the Cottonwood Trail Fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a naturalized citizen of the U.S., born in Mexico, with naturalization and passport fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging WESLEY ROBERT WARREN, 22, with robbery and assault on the White Earth Indian Reservation. WARREN made his initial appearance earlier today before Magistrate Judge Jon T. Huseby in U.S. District Court in Bemidji, Minnesota.
By State Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: Dear Administrator Barsa: We write to protest the comments by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) political appointee Merritt Corrigan, and request that you demand her resignation from her position as deputy White House Liaison. Her record of public remarks, including disparaging LGBTQ...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: WEST GLACIER, Mont. [July 22, 2020] - After careful consideration, discussion, and with input from park staff, local businesses, and parks already implementing similar systems, Glacier National Park officials have decided not to implement the proposed temporary ticketed vehicle entry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, today joined Attorney General William P. Barr and President Donald J. Trump to announce the expansion of Operation Legend to Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced Justin Williams, age 31, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 110 months in federal prison following his convictions for distribution of heroin, possession with the intent to distribute heroin, possession ...
