News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Anthony Hadden, age 27, of Modena, New York, appeared today in federal court on charges that he distributed and possessed child pornography.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Republican Leader of the Committee on Education and Labor, delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a full committee hearing to examine the impacts of COVID-19 on K-12 education...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Attorney Christina Nolan 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: 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 Cody Scott Sharnsky, age 26, of Canton, Ohio with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
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 Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.1 million grant to the Fletcher Falcon Enterprise Corporation of Schriever, Louisiana, to build a new healthcare and nursing training facility to support the workforce demands of regional employers. The EDA grant, to be matched with $560,000 in local investment, is expected to create 500 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: Today, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank 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: 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 Kevin Hinca, 28, of Lancaster, New York, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute heroin, was sentenced to serve 32 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced that the Full Committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, June 23, at 11 a.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building, on the nation’s COVID-19 response with four key Trump Administration officials leading the response. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of the Trump Administration’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic."
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have demonstrated a potentially new way to make switches inside a computer’s processing chips, enabling them to use less energy and radiate less heat.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - 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: PEORIA, Ill. - U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid today sentenced Eugene Haywood, 26, to serve life plus 10 years in federal prison for his role in a Peoria street gang known as “Bomb Squad" that operated as a criminal enterprise to commit murder and engage in gun violence in Peoria for years. Haywood...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of California, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of transfer of obscene material to a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A North Kansas City, Missouri, woman was sentenced in federal court today for embezzling from her employer in what was her fourth scheme to steal from a local company.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: KANAB, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)’s walk-in lottery for day-use hiking permits at Coyote Buttes North, also known as The Wave, resumed this week daily at 8:00 a.m. at the Kanab Center gymnasium located at 20 North 100 East, Kanab, Utah 84741. Directional signs will be posted, and the BLM asks visitors to park on the east side of the building in the rear parking lot.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. 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: 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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Two Seniors Defrauded of More Than $900,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: MEMPHIS, TN - Today, U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant 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 Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2020
News Release: Many serious diseases, including autism, schizophrenia and numerous cardiac disorders, are believed to result from mutation of an individual’s DNA. But some large mutations, which still make up only a small fraction of the total human genome, have been surprisingly challenging to detect.
