News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: The defendant previously worked at a Delaware County autism services provider and a West Philadelphia daycare.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: On this day in 1865, Major General Gordon Granger led his Union troops to Galveston, Texas, with this purpose - to formally and finally deliver news that the Civil War had ended and that all enslaved people were free. As part of this announcement, General Granger read General Order Number 3: “The people...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Independence, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm that he used to shoot his girlfriend.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Keith Strong, 50, Thorp, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 72 months in prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Strong pleaded guilty to this charge on Feb. 19, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: Melinda Downing has professionally walked the halls of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for years, leaving a proud record of achievement and advancement of justice and equality in federal programs and policies.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: GULFPORT, Miss. - An investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) led to a pair of Mississippi men being sentenced to 20 years and seven years for their roles in a criminal network distributing methamphetamine into Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The Justice Department today announced that it has filed a lawsuit alleging that Stafford County violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) by enacting overly restrictive zoning regulations prohibiting an Islamic organization from developing a religious cemetery on land it had purchased for that purpose.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Christopher Jones, age 53, of Old Forge, Pennsylvania, was charged on June 16, 2020, by criminal information with tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on June 16, 2020, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against a woman allegedly involved in felony child abuse against a child on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment named Markala K. Waukau (age: 18) of Neopit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Fairfax medical doctor was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and fined $30,000 for illegally diverting Adderall and oxycodone to six different patients, including a patient who suffered from opioid addiction and later died of a drug overdose.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Chairman James E. Clyburn, and Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Chairman Raja Krishnamoorthi sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requesting a staff briefing on the agency’s policies and procedures that will guide decisions about the development, review, and deployment of any eventual coronavirus vaccines.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal criminal complaint against JESSICA LYNN WHITE, 33, charging her with conspiracy to commit arson. WHITE, who was arrested on June, 16, 2020, made her initial appearance on June 17, 2020, before Magistrate Judge David T. Schultz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Twenty-two current and former residents of Western Pennsylvania have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of narcotics trafficking and firearms violations following an investigation into drug trafficking and violence in and around the South Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment on June 16, 2020, charging Michael Laury, age 41, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with additional offenses for a methamphetamine laboratory.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Stephen Yobst, age 64, of Denver, Colorado was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 27 months in federal prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, yesterday took to the Senate floor to outline how the energy industry has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic - and urged her colleagues to pass the American Energy Innovation Act (AEIA) to help boost the nation’s economic recovery. Murkowski’s comments followed a hearing held by ENR on Tuesday morning to discuss those impacts and hear from witnesses on how to recover from them.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Randell Bruton-Scott, age 33, of West Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was indicted on June 16, 2020, by a federal grand jury with crack cocaine trafficking and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Fairfax medical doctor was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and fined $30,000 for illegally diverting Adderall and oxycodone to six different patients, including a patient who suffered from opioid addiction and later died of a drug overdose.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: [Martinez, CA] - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, John Muir National Historic Site (NHS) is increasing recreational access and services. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
