News from June 2020
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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: Investigators Seeking Information related to Yellow Chevrolet Camaro.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), slammed the partisan markup of the House Democrats' transportation infrastructure bill. The legislation advanced out of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on a party line vote. This vote stands in stark contrast to America's Transportation Infrastructure Act which passed the EPW Committee by a unanimous vote of 21 to 0.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, filed the Committee’s report after marking up the Washington, D.C. Admission Act in advance of the bill being considered on the House floor next Friday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Marcus Stackhouse, 37, of Maryland was sentenced today to 70 months’ imprisonment on a federal narcotics trafficking charge stemming from his narcotics trafficking in the summer and fall of 2019, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin, Ashan M. Benedict, Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Division of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Congressman Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) responded to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) finalization of the rule to transport liquefied natural gas (LNG) by rail tank car.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: Virginia Resident Indicted for Employment Tax Evasion and Obstructing the IRS.
By State Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were joined by Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), in introducing a Senate resolution yesterday ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON- A household appliance, which may be sitting inside your kitchen cabinet, can now be used as a powerful tool in the fight to control COVID-19. Researchers with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) developed a do-it-yourself solution to decontaminate personal protective equipment (PPE) using a programmable multicooker.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two Kansas City-area brothers have pleaded guilty in federal court this week to their roles in a multi-million dollar investment fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Bureau of Reclamation’s Deputy Regional Director Jeff Payne released the following statement on Klamath Project Water Supply.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: CONTACT: Barbara Burns. PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. Buffalo, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 14-count superseding indictment charging Kalijah Long, 36, of Buffalo, NY, with possession with intent to distribute, and...
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 man allegedly involved in domestic violence against a woman on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment named Justin M. Moore (age: 35) of Keshena.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Ashlie Rickards, 27, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced by United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. on June 18, 2020 for transferring a firearm to a prohibited person. She received a three-year term of probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Cedar Grove man was sentenced to prison for a federal child pornography crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Benjamin Franklin Thomas, 32, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for possession of child pornography. He also is required to register as a sex offender...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 14-count superseding indictment charging Kalijah Long, 36, of Buffalo, NY, with possession with intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: The website CityXGuide.com - a leading source of online advertisements for prostitution and sex trafficking that users described as “taking over from where Backpage left off" - has been seized and its owner charged in a 28-count federal indictment, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
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: A Dallas doctor has pleaded guilty to a felony for prescription drug diversion crimes perpetrated on elderly victims, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox.
By State Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
Release: More information about Burundi is available on the Burundi Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
