News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was charged yesterday with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Two convicted felons have been charged with federal firearm offenses for allegedly illegally possessing loaded handguns in Chicago this past weekend.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: A man who used another person’s Social Security number to get a job and for tax purposes was sentenced today to three months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Paul E. Lubienecki, 62, of Hamburg, NY, with stalking. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that the Department of Justice awarded thirteen police departments throughout South Carolina more than $8 million through the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring Program, which allows those agencies to hire 63 additional full-time law enforcement professionals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS-An East Glacier Park man convicted after a drunken driving crash killed one passenger and seriously injured a second passenger in Glacier National Park last year was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: The Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Committees of jurisdiction over the Medicaid program wrote to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today expressing concern over prolonged delays in disbursing funds from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund (PHSSEF) for Medicaid-dependent providers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: Mike Hurst and Chad Lamar, United States Attorneys for the Southern and Northern Districts of Mississippi, respectively, and Michelle Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jackson Field Office, announced today that their offices have been working with other federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Ismael Valdez, 37, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, appeared in federal court in Las Cruces on June 1 for an initial appearance on a criminal complaint charging him with attempted enticement of a minor, attempted production of child pornography, attempted solicitation of child pornography, and attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson, Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI, and Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced today that three alleged members of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Christopher Joe Stamper, 28, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty to 20 years in federal prison and 10 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography. Stamper is also required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 10: 0 a.m. ET, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing to examine the crisis of racial profiling, police brutality and lost trust between police departments and the communities they serve. Witnesses to be announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on May 27, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) reached a consent decision with Mike Perschbacher (Perschbacher), Sulpher, Okla., for an alleged violation of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Committees of jurisdiction over the Medicaid program wrote to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today expressing concern over prolonged delays in disbursing funds from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund (PHSSEF) for Medicaid-dependent providers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Reserve man who admitted shooting another man in the face with a.22-caliber rifle on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in 2018 was sentenced today to 46 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: The Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Committees of jurisdiction over the Medicaid program wrote to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today expressing concern over prolonged delays in disbursing funds from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund (PHSSEF) for Medicaid-dependent providers.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: BOULDER CITY, NEVADA - Due to increasingly high temperatures, low humidity, and dry vegetation, the Bureau of Reclamation is immediately implementing fire restrictions to help reduce the risk of wildfires on Reclamation lands in Imperial and Riverside counties in California, and in support of Bureau of Land Management fire restrictions issued on April 29.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette and Australia’s Minister of Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor participated in a virtual signing ceremony finalizing the U.S.-Australia SPR Lease Agreement. This lease agreement builds on the arrangement signed in March that allows any Australian stocks held in the SPR to be counted toward Australia’s compliance obligations with the International Energy Agency (IEA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of unlawfully importing heroin into the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2020
News Release: $1.6 Million Awarded in the Northern District of Oklahoma.
