News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Fargo - United States Attorney Drew Wrigley announced that Robert Eugene Johnson, age 72 of West Fargo, ND, has been sentenced to serve five months in Federal Prison for making a false statement about his criminal record during the Purchase of a Firearm. Johnson pled guilty to the offense on June 22...
By Commerce 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 Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding an $800,000 grant to the South Eastern Development Foundation, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to capitalize a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that will provide gap financing to businesses in a six-county...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., wrote to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue requesting the extension of existing flexibilities for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) through Sept. 30, 2020, as authorized by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Massachusetts Man Charged with COVID-Relief Fraud.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, June 22, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced South Dakota has been approved to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), a new program authorized by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), signed by President Trump, which provides assistance to families of children eligible for free or reduced-price meals dealing with school closures.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Buffalo, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for methamphetamine trafficking.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Shenandoah National Park will begin accepting campground reservations for the 2020 season on June 24, 2020. Visitors who would like to camp at Mathews Arm, Big Meadows, Loft Mountain or Dundo campgrounds can go to Recreation.gov or call (877) 444-6777 to make reservations from 2-days to 6-months in advance of their trip. A limited number of campsites will be available on a first come-first served basis.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: FARMINGTON, NM - With the easing of public health and safety restrictions enacted by State of New Mexico health officials, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), today announced that the Farmington Field Office is increasing recreational access and services at some recreation sites. The BLM Farmington...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Jesus Sanchez-Morales, the leader of an extensive drug conspiracy involving multiple state prisons in Georgia, has pleaded guilty, joining sixteen of his conspirators. Sanchez-Morales, who was incarcerated in a Georgia prison, admitted to brokering innumerable drug transactions throughout the Atlanta area from his prison cell using contraband cell phones. He was already serving a sentence for drug trafficking offenses at the time he committed this offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Two felons were sentenced today in U.S. District Court for possessing firearms and ammunition, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Submitted over $300,000 Worth of Fraudulent Rebate Claim Forms to a Utility Company and Paid Cash Kickbacks to the Utility Company’s Contractors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - A Bristol, Virginia man, who corresponded with and sent lewd pictures to an FBI employee he believed to be a 14-year-old female, pleaded guilty today in federal court to a series of charges related to the distribution and possession of child pornography. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and David W. Archey, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Fargo - United States Attorney Drew Wrigley announced that Robert Eugene Johnson, age 72 of West Fargo, ND, has been sentenced to serve five months in Federal Prison for making a false statement about his criminal record during the Purchase of a Firearm. Johnson pled guilty to the offense on June 22, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Justin. E. Herdman, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced today that a federal grand jury in Cleveland has indicted two men in the Akron area on charges of illegal firearm possession. These are separate cases and are not related.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: James A. Cochran Named Special Agent in Charge of the Operational Support Division of the New York Field Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released the Community Resilience Estimates on to measure the ability of a population to absorb, endure and recover from the impacts of disasters, including weather-related and disease-related hazard events such as COVID-19. The new experimental data product will be available through a tool which shows risk level by state, county and tract.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: U.S. Army Soldier Charged with Terrorism Offenses for Planning Deadly Ambush on Service Members in His Unit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A South Yarmouth man pleaded guilty today to fentanyl possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT - U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox announced the hiring of Nicholas Ganjei as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas.
