News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Connie Gill, age 41, of Pueblo, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute Oxycodone. The defendant appeared remotely while in custody. She was remanded at the conclusion of the hearing. The DEA joined in this announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: The Defendant Committed the New Offense While on Parole on State Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two Sioux Falls, South Dakota, men convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A London woman, Wilma Thompson, 41, was sentenced in on Friday, to 18 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, for obtaining a controlled substance through the registration of another and identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, Okla. - The DEA Dallas Field Division and United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that seven defendants, primarily residents of Pittsburg, Le Flore, and Sequoyah Counties, have been indicted for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Oklahoma and elsewhere.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the North Central Texas Council of Governments, Arlington, Texas, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic. This is the first EDA CARES Act Recovery Assistance investment being made in the bureau’s Austin region.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Bismarck - United States Attorney Drew Wrigley announced that Curtis James McGarvey, Age 52 of Bismarck, ND, has been sentenced to serve 20 years in prison for Cyberstalking and Sexual Exploitation of a Minor. McGarvey pled guilty to the offenses on March 9th, 2020, and was sentenced by United States...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park Rangers responded to a report of a motorcycle collision on Newfound Gap Road at 5:11 p.m. on Monday, June 22. Phillip Rath, age 69, of Schoolcraft, MI, was traveling northbound on his motorcycle when he crossed the center line and struck a Honda Odyssey that was traveling...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Washington - As a part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on Versa Marketing Inc. (Versa), Fresno, Calif., for failing to meet...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: DOJ awards $42 million to combat manufacture and distribution of meth and opioids nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - A Pikeville man, Jimmy Lee Moore, 69, was sentenced to 22 months, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, after previously pleading guilty to distributing hydrocodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher sentenced Ronald Wilson, age 39, of Baltimore, Maryland yesterday to 90 months in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FRANK GIOVINCO was sentenced yesterday to 48 months in prison for extortion conspiracy and participating in a racketeering conspiracy in connection with the Genovese Crime Family’s control of two local chapters of a labor union. GIOVINCO was convicted on Dec. 3, 2019, following a six-day trial before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff, who also sentenced GIOVINCO.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A husband and wife from Burlington County, New Jersey, were charged today with conspiring to defraud more than 33 victims into mailing and wiring more than $6 million to them and other conspirators after their conspirators met and wooed the victims on online dating sites, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM workers at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently finished placing the, a facility once used to produce plutonium oxide, into a reversible safe shutdown while preserving its capabilities for future use, resulting in an annual cost avoidance of approximately $40 million.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Events of the past few weeks have shown the need for policies to strengthen child well-being as thousands of youth all across America marched, demonstrated, and some even looted as they challenged our systems of social, educational and economic justice. Child care powers both family economic well-being...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Blairsville, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms law, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A public official in Los Angeles County’s Internal Services Department was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in federal prison for accepting nearly $300,000 in bribes from an electrical contractor and then failing to report the income he received from those bribes and a side business on his federal tax returns.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) released the following statement on Speaker Pelosi’s partisan infrastructure wish list bill...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) officers removed Luc Emond, 60, a Canadian citizen wanted in his home country for weapons violations.
