News from June 2020
By USDA Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain and Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro issued a warning to Pennsylvanians today to be alert to fraudsters using stolen identities to try to obtain Coronavirus Stimulus Funds.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Perfect for children and families alike who are looking to discover the “wild" closer to home, the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service updated their educational and adventure themed mission game App called “Agents of Discovery," so users could play at home.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement emphasizing the importance of passing additional legislation to speed an economic rebound...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: URBANA, Ill.-U.S. Marshals Service deputies arrested a Champaign, Ill., man, Shamar N. Betts, 19, early this morning in Tchula, Miss., on a state burglary warrant issued by Champaign county. Betts has also been charged in a federal criminal complaint with using the internet to incite rioting in Champaign...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: Four Florida Men Charged for Their Roles in a $54 Million Compound Pharmacy Kickback Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND- Manuel Diaz, 29, of Hammond, Indiana, was sentenced by Judge Philip P. Simon to 420 months imprisonment following his guilty plea to conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity as a member of the Latin Dragon Nation street gang, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Gustavo Hernandez-Gonzalez, 34, an illegal alien from Mexico, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans, and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain and Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro issued a warning to Pennsylvanians today to be alert to fraudsters using stolen identities to try to obtain Coronavirus Stimulus Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: No words are sufficient to express the sadness and outrage we feel about George Floyd’s death, or to address the history that has led to that horrific event. As to all persons who are charged with a crime, in our country, the officers involved have a right to a fair trial. At the same time, we are all...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A Bend, Oregon man pleaded guilty today for placing a hoax bomb at the Deschutes County Courthouse on July 29, 2019, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Knightdale man was sentenced today to three consecutive life sentences plus 240 months in prison for Conspiracy to Participate in a Pattern of Racketeering (RICO conspiracy), Murder in Aid of Racketeering, Murder with a Firearm During and in Relation to a crime of Violence, and Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with the Intent to Distribute Controlled Substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Geoffrey M. Palermo was charged in a criminal complaint with wire fraud and making false statements in a loan application in connection with multiple schemes to defraud spanning from 2013 to 2020, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett, and U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Western Region Special Agent in Charge Weston King.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau, in coordination with federal, state and local health officials, will begin a phased restart of some 2020 Census field operations in additional area census offices (ACOs) across the nation the week of June 8. With these additions, field activities have restarted in 247 of 248 area...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey of the Eastern District of Tennessee today announced that Hamblen County received $58,008 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Petr Kostenetskiy, age 21, of Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on June 2, 2020, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to thirty-six months’ imprisonment to be followed by two years of supervised release for armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A Bend, Oregon man pleaded guilty today for placing a hoax bomb at the Deschutes County Courthouse on July 29, 2019, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Thomas Herbert Lewis, Jr. (41, Plant City) with robbery, brandishing a firearm in furtherance of robbery, and possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. If convicted, Lewis faces a minimum mandatory sentence of seven years, up to life, in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Labor Department’s May jobs report...
