News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Tenorio (619) 909-7556.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Twenty-four Democratic Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter today to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai urging him to delay a vote on a Declaratory Ruling that would limit local governments‘ role in the deployment of wireless infrastructure.
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 Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: PRICE, Utah -The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is protecting the Muddy Creek Herd Management Area (HMA) wild horses and the Sinbad HMA burros from harm by removing unauthorized water troughs on BLM lands. In late May, a citizen campaign was run to solicit money to help haul water and supply water tanks...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Statement from Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband and Michigan U.S. Attorneys on Michigan Governor's Decision to Adjust Reopening Plans.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Republican Workforce Leaders on the Education and Labor Committee, Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Tim Walberg (R-MI), sent letters today to the presidents of the AFL-CIO, Service Employees International Union, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and UNITE HERE calling for them to stop collecting dues and fees from unemployed workers and to halt dues checkoffs at companies receiving coronavirus relief loans from the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANTONIO DIMARCO was sentenced in Manhattan federal court today to 54 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud, based on his attempt to fraudulently acquire millions of dollars’...
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: CHICAGO - Two individuals have been charged with federal firearm offenses for allegedly illegally possessing loaded handguns in downtown Chicago this past weekend.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: In Waco today, 33-year-old Temple, Texas, resident Lydia Brynn Christensen, pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division; and, Temple Police Chief Shawn Reynolds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to drug trafficking in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
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 USDA Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
Release: APHIS is offering a new video series chronicling the impact feral swine have on Americans’ livelihoods through damage to agricultural and natural resources. The first in the series, Episode 1- Mississippi looks at the impacts feral swine have on large and small farmers as well as the levee system, natural resources, and archaeological sites.
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 US DOT Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalizing its rulemaking on Hazardous Air Pollutants, which includes ethylene oxide, from the manufacturing sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - Two men were sentenced today for sex offenses involving minors, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Arun Dhavamani, 41, of Camp Creek, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for traveling in interstate commerce in order to engage in sexual activity. Jeffrey William Sexton, Jr., of Virginia Beach, Virginia., was sentenced to 63 months in prison. Both men will served a term of 15 years on supervised release following their release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that John Cole Haeberle, age 23, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Arson, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 844(i), punishable by not less than 5 years to not more than 20 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense by Recognizing Signs of Trouble.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 43-year-old Little Rock, AR man has been sentenced to federal prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 2, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Tuesday, June 9, at 12 p.m. (EDT). The hearing is entitled, “Pollution and Pandemics: COVID-19’s Disproportionate Impact on Environmental Justice Communities."
