News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Mississippi Department of Health Services Agrees to Pay $5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Liability in Connection with SNAP Quality Control.
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 Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: On Monday, June 1, a logistics aircraft from the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service (BLM AFS) - Tanana Fire Management Zone, while flying over the northern portion of Denali National Park and Preserve, discovered a wildfire approximately 23 miles north of Kantishna (mile marker 93), near the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Houston, Texas, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for an investment fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Antonio Janifer, 28, was taken into custody Monday by the U.S. Marshals-led Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force took into custody Monday night and charged with first- and second-degree attempted murder following the shooting of Baltimore City Police Officer Joshua Jackson on May 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - These have been difficult and challenging times over the past 10 weeks due first to a pervasive pandemic and now as a result of great societal unrest. We witnessed the harrowing and disturbing video images of the death of George Floyd. We watched many peaceful protestors exercise their...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Republicans with the House Committee on Natural Resources released the following statements regarding the scheduled virtual forum entitled “Examining Local Perspectives on the Department of the Interior’s Plan to Reopen National Parks During the Coronavirus Pandemic." The Trump...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: For Production Of Child Pornography. HAMMOND- Philip A. Rice, 44, of Dolton, Illinois was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Philip Simon upon his plea of guilty to production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. Mr. Rice was sentenced to 210 months in prison followed by 5...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -This week, Rep. Gerry Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, convened a briefing for Members with Scott S. Dahl, the Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Labor (DOL), focused on ongoing oversight efforts into the agency’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander today sentenced Timothy Herndon, age 29, of Owings Mills, Maryland, to eight years in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
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: Salt Lake City, Orem, American Fork, Willard, Wayne County Receive Money.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Brandon Eric Navarrete, 27, of Reno, was arraigned in federal court today on an indictment charging him for allegedly unlawfully possessing, receiving, and distributing approximately 17,000 images and videos of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Defendant arrested on firearm charge after seeking asylum. Upon deportation defendant reentered U.S. and was arrested for drug distribution and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KEITH SANFORD, 33, of Litchfield, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez to one count of theft of government property stemming from his embezzlement of nearly $40,000 in postal money orders while working for the U.S. Postal Service.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: At approximately 4:30 p.m. on May 31, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area dispatch received a call about a missing person and presumed drowning in Lake Powell in the Warm Creek area in Kane County, Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: A man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported was sentenced today to almost three months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A 64-year-old man has admitted to conspiring to commit money laundering for his role in a complex email fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, “On the Front Lines: How Governors are Battling the COVID-19 Pandemic."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: HAMMOND- Philip A. Rice, 44, of Dolton, Illinois was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Philip Simon upon his plea of guilty to production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
