News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Mexican Mafia associate who ordered murders and assaults in Orange County’s jail system on the prison gang’s behalf was sentenced today to 210 months in federal prison for his racketeering conspiracy conviction.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Committee Members Jackie Speier, Brenda Lawrence, and Ayanna Pressley, sent a letter pressing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to produce documents relating to the Department’s decision to finalize a dangerous Title IX rule that would strip protections for survivors of sexual violence and make schools less safe in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter A. DeFazio (D-OR) was joined by Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
Release: On June 22, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) kicked off its Service Academy Collaboration (SAC) Program as it virtually welcomed six cadets from the United States Coast Guard Academy to collaborate on its ongoing research and development ...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
Release: USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is providing $2.8 million in additional funding to support grasshopper and Mormon cricket suppression in Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming as a result of higher than normal populations due to a warm, dry ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Richard P. Donoghue, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that special telephone numbers have been set up to receive complaints of possible violations of federal election laws relating to tomorrow’s primary election in New York City and other counties in their districts.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar, Department of Justice (DOJ) Attorney General William Barr, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter A. DeFazio (D-OR) was joined by Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Xavier Jimenez-Robledo appeared today in court on charges that he dealt counterfeit pills containing fentanyl that led to the overdose death of one individual in Monterey County, and the hospitalization of another individual, a minor, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Special Agent in Charge of the San Francisco Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Daniel C. Comeaux.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STEVEN KENT STRANGE, 50, of Bailey, North Carolina, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today to one count of wire fraud related to his defrauding his former employer’s charity matching gift program of nearly $600,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot Shea...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: On June 22, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) kicked off its Service Academy Collaboration (SAC) Program as it virtually welcomed six cadets from the United States Coast Guard Academy to collaborate on its ongoing research and development...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man found to be in possession of more than 384 grams of fentanyl, nearly 2,000 grams of heroin, and more than 2,260 grams of cocaine, and who was expecting to take possession of six kilograms of fentanyl before it was intercepted by law enforcement, was sentenced today to six years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced the inclusion of critical auto safety provisions in H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act. The provisions will improve auto safety and will help prevent tragic deaths from drunk driving, children being left in hot cars, carbon monoxide poisoning, and unsafe limousines.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: U.S. Army Private Ethan Melzer Sent Sensitive U.S. Military Information to Members of a Neo-Nazi Group in an Attempt to Facilitate a “Mass Casualty" Attack on Melzer’s Army Unit.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced the inclusion of critical auto safety provisions in H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act. The provisions will improve auto safety and will help prevent tragic deaths from drunk driving, children being left in hot cars, carbon monoxide poisoning, and unsafe limousines.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - TARA LYNETTE HUMPHRIES, 38, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 352 months in prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, as well as possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Nathan Andrew Chilton, 43, of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 42 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Chilton was also ordered to pay a $3,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Roosevelt Wilkins, 33, pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl and one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and cocaine. U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns scheduled sentencing for Oct. 14, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Senior United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Christopher Osborne on June 22, 2020 to a term of imprisonment of 78 months. Osborne will serve a 5-year term of supervised release following his release from the Bureau of Prisons. There is no parole in the federal prison system.
