News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Defense, and Department of Homeland Security, and U.S. Coast Guard announced today a significant offload of drugs seized in international waters in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Agents with the DEA and the crew of the USCG Cutter James offloaded more than 33,000 pounds of cocaine and marijuana - worth an estimated $438.5 million - at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The president of a California-based medical technology company was charged in a complaint unsealed today in the Northern District of California, in connection with his alleged participation in schemes to mislead investors, to manipulate the company’s stock price and to conspire to commit health care fraud in connection with the submission of over $69 million in false and fraudulent claims for allergy and COVID-19 testing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Steven Pennycooke, 34, and Shawn Collins, 27, both of Philadelphia, PA, were each charged by criminal complaint with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The criminal complaints and arrest warrants against both men were unsealed this morning prior to their initial appearances in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Wagner, South Dakota, man convicted of Threatening Communications was sentenced on June 8, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a Salvadoran national Tuesday, who is wanted in El Salvador for his involvement in two homicides.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Pomona, California, woman was sentenced in federal court today for leading a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine in Jasper County, Missouri.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) from today’s hearing entitled, “On the Front Lines: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Transportation Workers":
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Medford, ORE. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking proposals for natural resource projects that restore and improve public lands across Western Oregon. Up to $6.6 million in funding is available for projects that provide community-based solutions to pressing public lands challenges like wildland fire prevention, trash clean-up, watershed restoration, road maintenance, control of noxious weeds and more.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has upheld the convictions of Priscilla Ann Ellis (Killeen, Texas) and Perry Don Cortese (Little River, Texas) on charges that they had participated in an extensive mail...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three people will begin their service as part of the selection committee for the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods grants program, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, AK - On Monday, the U.S. Marshals Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force arrested a resident of Sterling, Alaska who was wanted on multiple outstanding state of Alaska warrants. Brian Tupper, 40, was being sought on warrants for charges including Failure to Stop at the Direction of...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Sulphur, Okla. - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Chickasaw National Recreation Area is increasing recreational access in accordance with Oklahoma’s “Open Up and Recover Safely" plan. The National...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Miami, Florida - Two Louisiana residents, Jeremy Steven Coleman, 43, and Jennifer Lynn Freeman, 35, appeared in federal court on charges that they participated in a string of armed robberies throughout Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - John Maasen, 65, of Olivehurst, pleaded guilty today to possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on June 4, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision with Alvin E. Downey, doing business as CBI Livestock Brokers (Downey) of Santa Teresa, N.M., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced nearly $11 billion in energy-cost savings by more than 950 public and private sector organizations in DOE’s Better Buildings Initiative. To date, partners have saved nearly 1.8 quadrillion British thermal units of energy, which is equivalent to the electricity consumption of 27 million homes in America over one year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that Brian G. Galston (age 36) of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was sentenced on June 8, 2020, by Senior United States District Judge William C. Griesbach for being a felon in possession of a firearm, contrary to 18 U.S.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of ERIC RYAN BERGSTROM, 38, to 132 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. BERGSTROM, who pleaded guilty on Dec. 17, 2019, was sentenced today before Senior Judge Paul A. Magnuson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Dear Acting Inspector General Grimm: We write today in an effort to work with your office to protect and educate Medicaid recipients, specifically those living in nursing homes and assisted living facilities around the country, and to educate such providers to prevent improper and unlawful practices.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man was sentenced in federal court in Springfield today for heroin distribution.
