News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: Statement from Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband and Oregon U.S. Attorney Billy Williams on Oregon Governor’s Reopening Plan for Places of Worship.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An 18-year-old Providence high school student has been charged in U.S. District Court in Providence with allegedly coercing a 10-year-old Utah girl to disrobe and engage in sexually explicit conduct in front of a live online camera.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, led six of their Democratic colleagues in urging the Department of Labor (DOL) to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Darnell M. Garnett, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 57 months incarceration for a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is replacing a culvert over Spruce Creek on the Dice Hill Road in Grand County beginning June 15, to improve aquatic habitat for native fish. Dice Hill Road will be closed for the duration of the 30 to 60-day project.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man with a prior conviction for transporting child pornography was sentenced in federal court today for another child pornography offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: BOISE - A federal jury sitting in Boise convicted Brooks Allan Case, 32, of Star, Idaho, of distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Case was indicted by a federal grand jury on Nov. 13, 2019. The trial began on Monday, June 1, 2020, and concluded on Thursday afternoon when the jury returned their verdict.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: Richard W. Moore, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, announces that Gerarde Rodiquez Madison (36 years old, of Thomasville, Alabama) has been sentenced to three years in prison following his guilty plea to possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Prosecutors from the United States Attorney’s Office, along with a special agent from the FBI, will participate in a telephonic town hall coordinated through the AARP to provide information to Arizona residents to help them identify and avoid fraudulent schemes, including scams related to COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Zaiqua Acosta, age 21, of Albany, was arrested on June 4 on the charge of unlawfully possessing a firearm as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: Richard W. Moore, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, announces that Gerarde Rodiquez Madison (36 years old, of Thomasville, Alabama) has been sentenced to three years in prison following his guilty plea to possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man with a prior conviction for transporting child pornography was sentenced in federal court today for another child pornography offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Yarnell Qudellious Payne, age 36, of Muskogee, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Failure To Register As Sex Offender, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2250(a)(1), 2250(a)(2)(B) and 2250(a)(3), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00 or both.
By State Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: Washington-This month, provisions of the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act go into effect, sanctioning those who back the Syrian regime, including Russia and Iran. Ahead of the implementation, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot L. Engel and Ranking Member Michael T. McCaul and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman James Risch and Ranking Member Bob Menendez released the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following reports that some nursing homes and assisted living facilities have been seizing residents’ economic impact payments (EIPs), House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) called on the Centers for Medicare...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, NY-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Glenn K. Smith, 52, of Webster, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Salvatore Lippa II, 57, of Greece, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to two counts of threatening a United States official. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: Over $1.3 Million Awarded to Hazleton Police Department.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) last week officially introduced the Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America (INVEST in America ) Act during a pro forma session in the House. The INVEST...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2020
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - BLM land managers want to notify the public of the risk of disease-causing organisms that are polluting the waters at Trego Hot Springs in the Black Rock National Conservation Area. The hot springs are approximately 20 miles northeast of Gerlach, Nevada.
