News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to 21 months imprisonment and five years supervised release, with the first three months of supervised release to be served on home detention on his conviction of possession with intent to distribute heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: William Hughes. Associate Deputy Attorney General. Craig Carpenito. United States Attorney for the District Of New Jersey. U.S. Department of Justice Joint Statement before the. United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary Washington, D.C. For a Hearing Entitled. “Covid-19 Fraud: Law Enforcement’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ALANNA JEAN ORR, 50, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Scott Palk to serve 210 month in federal prison for causing the death of her five-year-old grandson by leaving him in a hot car in a casino parking lot on a hot summer afternoon with no air conditioning...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Communications and Technology and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittees will hold a joint remote hearing on Wednesday, June 24, on disinformation online.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Today, House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) issued the following statement after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released guidance addressing concerns the Chairmen recently raised with the agency regarding the seizure of nursing home residents’ economic impact payments...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Roseburg, Ore. - With the lifting of public health and safety restrictions enacted by local, county and state officials, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Roseburg District announced today that Susan Creek campground and Tyee campground will be opening for overnight stays, with reservations, beginning...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced over $33 million in funding for 82 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). With over $36 million in matching funds from the private sector, these projects will advance ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DESI WILLIAMS, 39, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty today to possession of a firearm as a convicted felon, and while he was on supervised release following a prior federal conviction for the same offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Greenville man was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A former resident of Allegheny County, PA has been sentenced in federal court to seven years (84 months) of imprisonment on his convictions for federal narcotics and firearms offenses, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A resident of Vancouver, Canada, was charged yesterday in connection with a pump-and-dump scheme involving a penny stock company for which he impersonated the company’s president-an otherwise fictitious individual-and established a website containing false and misleading statements about the company’s purported business.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, June 9, 2020, a Montgomery, Alabama resident, Vicki Lott Rohan, 56, received a 15-month sentence for committing wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. and FBI Special Agent in Charge James Jewell. The sentence and conviction were the results of Rohan embezzling, over a seven-year period, approximately $250,000.00 from her then-employer, the Alabama Education Retirees Association (AERA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Glenn Hoyt Harrison (71, Hudson) to three years and five months in federal prison for theft of government funds. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment of $363,344.10, the proceeds from the offense, and ordered Harrison to pay restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Sentences. Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced PEYTONN M. SUCHOR, 31, of Rozet, Wyoming on June 5, 2020 for retaliation against an informant. Suchor was arrested in Gillette, Wyoming. He received forty-two months of imprisonment, to be followed by thirty-six months of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A federal grand jury has indicted six members of an Atlantic City drug-trafficking organization for their roles in the distribution of large amounts of heroin in the Atlantic City area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that a Fairbanks woman has been sentenced to federal prison for multiple crime sprees involving identify theft, mail theft, bank fraud, and credit card fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Chair of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on Indian Health Service COVID-19 response.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 720,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China. Of the total, 63,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2019/2020 marketing year and 657,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman John Lewis (D-GA) expressed their concern over the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) decision to begin mailing previously printed balance due notices as their operations ramp back up. These...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 11, 2020
News Release: Today, House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) issued the following statement after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released guidance addressing concerns the Chairmen recently raised with the agency regarding the seizure of nursing home residents’ economic impact payments...
