News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Eric Dreiband, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider for the Eastern District of Michigan, and U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge for the Western District of Michigan issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Today, U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and U.S. Marshal Gary G. Schofield for the U.S. Marshals Service announced that federal law enforcement will investigate, apprehend, and charge violent criminal instigators and organizers who have taken over peaceful protests and violated federal law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 22-year-old citizen of Guatemala has been charged with forcibly assaulting a Border Patrol (BP) agent, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Scheme Targeted Works by Matisse, Picasso, and Hopper.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 2, 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, released the following statement in response to news that Admiral Brett Giroir, Assistant Secretary for Health, would be stepping down as the Trump Administration’s “czar" for COVID-19 testing later this month with no replacement planned, and would resume his former responsibilities at the Department of Health and Human Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHNATHEN LOPEZ, 30, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny to 23 months of imprisonment, time already served, and three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice today announced nearly $400 million in grant funding through the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The Attorney General announced funding awards to 596 law enforcement agencies across the nation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Jermaine Foster, 49, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall to 20 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Deante Creel, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to drug distribution in the Wheeling area, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Today, federal authorities served a civil injunction against 73-year-old Fort Davis resident Marc “White Eagle" Travalino in an effort to combat alleged fraud related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, announced Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt of the Department of Justice’s Civil Division;...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: MEMPHIS, TN- Daniel Moore, 33, has pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of ammunition and possession of ammunition after being convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Soledad residents Enrique Lopez, 28, and Victor Bravo, 25, were each sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Nelson L. Gouge, age 47, of Glens Falls, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for bank robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Bloomberg . By Riley Griffin and Emma Court. Published June 1, 2020. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said that he intends to push for a vote this year on a bill that would limit drug-price increases, even as pharmaceutical companies race to find treatments and vaccines for Covid-19. …...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Good afternoon, I’d like to welcome everyone to the Finance Committee’s oversight hearing on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) foreign drug manufacturing inspection process. This committee has an obligation to ensure drugs paid for by the taxpayer via Medicare and Medicaid satisfy quality standards...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: HELENA-A Washington man who admitted supplying methamphetamine for drug runs to Montana in 2018 was sentenced today to 17 years and six months in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was arrested today on a federal arson charge for allegedly setting fire to a Chicago Police Department vehicle this past weekend.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man was arrested today for attempting to set fire to a marked police vehicle in Trenton after a demonstration over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The owners of two clinical laboratories in Texas and Mississippi today admitted their roles in a scheme to pay kickbacks in exchange for referrals of patient DNA samples and genetic tests to the laboratories, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Salt Lake City took custody of a Mexican national convicted of murder and aggravated robbery from Utah State Prison Tuesday.
