News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Files Civil Action to Support Major Expansion of Arlington National Cemetery.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is inviting public comment on a petition from Agrivida, Inc. (Agrivida) seeking deregulation of a corn variety genetically engineered for the production of phytase enzyme for nutritionally enhanced food and ...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that over 750,000 visitors to Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area in 2019 spent $23,600,000 in communities near the park. That spending supported 286 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $25,500,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, Missouri - United States District Judge E. Richard Webber sentenced Justin Moore, 31, of St. Louis, to 60 months in prison for possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and possessing with the intent to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former Arlington business executive pleaded guilty today to embezzling nearly $8 million that was intended to settle claims by children who alleged they were victims of medical malpractice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Armando Antonio Mena of Phoenix, Arizona was arrested June 12, 2020 and charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance With the Intent to Distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Gregory Dow, 61, of Lancaster, PA entered a plea of guilty before United States District Court Judge Edward G. Smith on four counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor in a foreign place, stemming from his operation of an orphanage in Kenya.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - On June 15, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Philadelphia and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced that a 27-year old of Montenegro man, entered a plea of guilty in United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: HELENA - A former GardaWorld employee convicted at trial of spending stolen money from an armored truck on gambling, day trading and a trip to France, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Two Buna, Texas brothers have been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking crimes in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Today, U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder 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: Fairview Heights, Ill. - U.S. Attorney Steven D. Weinhoeft today joined Attorney General William P.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of promoting American energy security, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes to offer a total of 113 parcels totaling 48,776.1 acres at its August 2020 quarterly oil and gas lease sale. The proposed parcels are located in Chaves, Eddy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Today, U.S. Attorney Brandon J. Fremin 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 Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Mother Lode Field Office will be burning up to 140 acres on Tuesday, June 16 at the Cosumnes River Preserve near Galt in Sacramento County, depending on weather and air quality conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that ARVIND “MIKE" VIRA (“VIRA"), age 74, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged today with conspiracy to defraud First NBC Bank, the New Orleans-based bank that failed in April 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A Sacramento man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to eight months in prison for impersonating an FBI agent, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
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 one-count indictment charging Matthew Paul Slatzer, 36, of Canton, Ohio, with possession of a firearm by a person with a domestic violence conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: FBI Statement on Passing of Former FBI Director William S. Sessions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Today, U.S. Attorney Trent Shores 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.
