News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A dozen Springfield, Missouri area residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl in Greene County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Today, United States Attorney Michael Bailey joined Attorney General William P. Barr and the entire Department of Justice in observing the 15th Annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. The Department echoes voices around the world condemning elder abuse, neglect and exploitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - United States Attorney Nick Hanna today joined the entire Department of Justice in observing the 15th Annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. The Justice Department echoes voices around the world condemning elder abuse, neglect and exploitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Two Nigerian nationals were arrested on Friday, June 12, 2020 and charged in connection with defrauding victims using various online scams during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: FBI Warns of Elder Fraud in Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Former lab director charged criminally for falsifying test results--Tacoma foundry provided substandard steel components for naval submarines for 30 years.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, sent letters to 24 federal offices of Inspectors General (IGs) requesting their plans to oversee agency plans to return employees to federal office buildings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: ASHLAND, Ky. - A Greenup, Kentucky man, Justin Huffman, 32, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison on Monday, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Hodgenville, KY - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 238,225 visitors to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park in 2019 spent $14,169,000 in communities near the park. That spending supported 210 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $19,136,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - June 15, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Majed Bashir Akroush, aka Magic Mike, 52, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today to two years and nine months in prison for conspiring to structure over $700,000 in cash withdrawals from four different bank accounts associated with his internet businesses that sold synthetic marijuana, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: FILLMORE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Fillmore Field Office announced today that it will conduct a wild horse gather in the Swasey Herd Management Area (HMA) beginning in July. The BLM plans to gather and remove approximately 550 horses and administer population growth suppression to other horses captured. The gather is being conducted due to declining rangeland health and overpopulation of wild horses, which is currently estimated at 721 animals.
By State Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Republican Leader on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on a Russian court sentencing U.S. citizen Paul Whelan to 16 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Crystal Asher Small, 32, of Atlanta, formerly of Hattiesburg and Trinidad, Tobago, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 21months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for making a false statement to purchase a firearm, announced U. S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Small was also ordered to pay a $2,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sturgis, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on June 9, 2020, by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme joined Attorney General William P. Barr and the entire Department of Justice in observing the 15th Annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. The Department echoes voices around the world condemning elder abuse, neglect and exploitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Racetrack Security Guard “Inside Man" Posed as a Victim During the $280,000 Heist.
By State Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Justin E. Herdman, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced today that a federal grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio has returned a two-count indictment charging Walter R. Maclin, age 46, of Cleveland with distribution of controlled substances.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Sedro Woolley, WA- The public is invited to comment on an Environmental Assessment (EA) to repair and reroute a portion of the lower Thunder Creek Trail, relocate a hiker camp, and create an administrative camp along the trail within the Stephen Mather Wilderness. The purpose of this action is to minimize the impacts of hiker and stock use along the trail, thereby preserving the character of the designated wilderness.
